Baristas Starbucks Coffee,  Robson Street around 1989:  I have no idea who the barista on the far left is, nor who took this picture, but I think I handed my camera to a regular customer to snap it. That's me on the right, wearing a tie instead if one of the friggin' bow ties we were supposed to wear. Next to me was my long time friend and excellent co-worker, Layne Black, who is now a comedian. She did a series of poems for an art show at a cafe, and as I recall it, 80% of the favorable comments in the comment book were praising her poetry and not my early art. I also recall that some assh*le wrote in the guest book that I would starve as an artist if I did fantasy Art, some of which I displayed at Cafe S'Il Vous Plait where the show was held. Funny, I now make most of my money from fantasy art and put food on the table for my family with it.

WM

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