The guy on the left...

... (in more than one way) is Bill Hicks of course. My all-time number one (anti-?) hero. He never caved in to commercial offers, despite an almost total lack of them, even at the pinnacle of his career, when still no one in the States had heard of him. Strangely enough, he was way more popular in Britain. He died some eleven years ago, of pancreatic cancer.

People have said that he had a messianic, a Jesus complex, and it is true, he was a preacher. Just not of the Godspel, but of the unadulterated and blindingly obvious truth (blindingly obvious, that is, once he has laid it bare for you). Well, if Bill is Jesus, I am Mark, his disciple, spreading his kalacharist.

More to follow.