So Long — Ray-Gun

June 5, 2004: Today Ronald Reagan died at age 93. Although my friend Donny Burkman met Mr. Reagan once upon a time, I never did, although I shot him the bird one evening, which could have got me shot by secret service guys, but it didn’t.

I recall little of Reagan’s time. I recall only a sunday comic where an aged hippy referred to him as “Ray Gun,” and at the time of Mr. Reagan’s presidency, it was cool to act contemptuous of the president’s foreign policy.

As if us young folks with no experience in anything somehow knew more about how to run a country. Now, older, I realize that I don’t even know how to act in major motion pictures.

So long, Mr. Reagan. I apologise for my poor behaviour.

But I was much younger then, and knew everything.

Now I am older and wiser, and know far less.