Me and Bret and AI

 

Above is a screenshot of an AI video made by my old college roommate, Bret Kerr, from an old photo from our student newspaper/copy center days. Not sure how I feel about it. I never looked quite like this in my mind's eye (my girlfriend, who knew me in college, begs to differ). Sadly, I did wear those ridiculous shorts. 

Gatepost Sausage Party

 

 

No women editors from the nineties crew came to the Gatepost 90th Birthday celebration. Here are all the men who were in attendance. 

 

Above we have John Bulens, John Cox, me, Steve Katsos, Jason Portanova, Joe Murphy, Advisor Emeritus Desmond McCarthy and Bret Kerr,

All of us old AF.

Reunions

Best part of the reunion was talking to old classmates and fellow Gatepost editors. Bret Kerr's wife Corrie was nice enough to take this selfie in the Gatepost offices, which changed from its original location since I left.

The Gatepost Turns Ninety

When I worked on the student newspaper for Framingham State University, it was still called Framingham State College. I contributed to the 80th anniversary celebration of The Gatepost ten years ago. Now they're celebrating their ninetieth anniversary with an article that interviews several of my former colleagues including Bret Kerr, Joe Murphy, Suzanne McDonald, Phil LeClare and Steve "I'm the only reason most of you are reading this" Katsos.  

It's a nice read for me, but I wish they could interview some of the younger generation and ask questions like, "How do you feel about spending your college years in the world of print journalism after it lost all credibility in the early 2000's and started to die a slow death that miraculously and horrifically continues to this day?"

Hey!

My old roommate Bret Kerr sent me a souped up version of the photo I used for this week's From Picture to Page poem. He used Snapseed. He free Google app.

 It looks a lot more chipper than my original photo. This might be Bret's unique way to tell me to cheer up.

Happy Birthday, Bret Kerr

A tip of the hat to one of the earliest designers of my chapbooks.

My Old Roomie Has a Web Site

I'll be looking forward to exploring this site later  and thinking how I knew him back when he was creating ads on Pagemaker. 

Happy Birthday Bret Kerr

Designer extraordinaire.