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My “beer and wine shopping 2020” look is also my “Burning Man 1999” look

Here’s what I looked like earlier this morning before shopping at Jug & Bottle Dept., our local non-skeevy beer and wine store:

Me on May 2, 2020. Tap the photo to see it at full size.

That look would’ve worked just fine 21 years ago at Burning Man

Me, sometime in late August/early September 1999. This is the photo at full size (480 by 640), which was decent for pocket digital cameras of that era.

…where a group of friendly pirates paid me in Tequila shots in exchange for playing Drunken Sailor and AC/DC on accordion on their playa pirate ship:

My t-shirt is also from that era — I bought it in 1998 at the HMV on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto. The design is by Frank Kozik, who did a lot of concert posters back then:

Joey deVilla

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