2. Did you marry someone from your high school?
No. I use marriage strictly as a means of undermining U.S. immigration laws.

3. Did you car pool to school?
Dan drove me a lot.

For a time Missy, her mother and my mother would ride together in what I remember to be, either a depression era boxcar, or an unscraped snow-covered station wagon.
As first-thing-in-the-morning experiences go, it gave you a life-affirming jolt. The sort that might be accomplished if you could somehow capture the essence of surviving the Siege of Leningrad and then drink it in the form of a fancy espresso beverage.

During later eras, Yes, the high school was among the dozen or so activities that I regularly got out of Josh Moyse’s car to attend.

4. What kind of car did you have?
My parents had a brown subaru.

6. It’s Friday night…where were you then?
The Latchis immersed in the arthouse hits of the eighties.
At Jamie or Josh’s, the only person in the room not watching a sports event.
Devouring 4-5 carefully selected video rentals with Plumpton at Moyse’s house.
Entertaining the masses, either in the BUHS Auditorium or the West Village Meeting House.
At Missy’s, conspiring to create either high art or low satire.
Recording a pirate and unaired radio show with Bob, Dick and Jock.
Makin’ out with Jenny, Charla, Josie, or Jeanette, and then driving them all the way back home. (Sunset Lake and Putney Roads be damned!)

And from rom 9/88 to 8/89 I played host to the Inn at 9 Bonnyvale:
On Fridays, any combination of maniacs could be found at the Inn– all readying themselves to make prank calls, to drive around town performing some juvenile-delinquency-as-performance-art, or else providing live commentary tracks for the worst (and best) filmed T&A vehicles of that era.

7. It’s Friday night…where are you now?
Theaters, clubs and living rooms, performing with bands, comics, puppets and actors…
…Or conversely, watching serialized television on my treadmill.

8. What kind of job did you have in high school?
I worked at Memorial Park Summer Camp and Pages Ice Cream and the Bookpress with Dan Long.

9. What kind of job do you have now?
I write and produce videos for corporate america, book camera crews for television, and whenever I can, I field-produce and conduct interviews for news and cable broadcasters.

I also subsidize my shadow career as an comic-entertainer and live events producer.

10. Were you a party animal?
I am an animal, and in high school I did have enough of an ego to think of myself as The Party.

11. Were you considered a flirt?
I tried so goddamn hard to be considered a flirt, without ever once understanding that flirting, done right, removes the trying.

12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
It has been noted that Josh Moyse and I were not song and dance men.
…but occasionally there were roles in the winter musical that did not require singing and at that point, all that was necessary was to somehow squeak and jump around like a 7 year-old or adopt a Hungarian accent, and then you were given a free pass on the singing and dancing.

Oh! And I did play harmonica in the Variety show once with Morton, Fagelson and other real musicians.

Also, Tallywhacker.

13. Were you a nerd?
I was a “Faggot”.

14. Did you get suspended or expelled?
I only got an in-school suspension once, for half-a-day in Junior High. I threw a band-aid at Mrs. Crisco and told her she could suck it. Wim Van Loon is a witness.

Detention, on the other hand, was my best subject.

15. Can you sing the fight song?
No, but I can still cry the “don’t beat me up because I insulted you” rap. And I perform it in a frightened pitch that might be compared to free-jazz.

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher?
Kramsky was beyond a teacher. He was the tour guide and a cartographer for my creative hunger.

Tim Kipp was a great fellow traveller, and a brilliant peddler of wisdom and intellect as well.

And Andreoli entertained the hell out of me.

I never had Holliday, but I audited his reading list and for some reason, many, many plots were hatched in his room.

17. Where did you sit for lunch?
In the Cafeteria with Goldstein, Moyse, Meyer, Long and my identical twin brother Chris Lenois, and then sometimes Morton, Gillespie, Kono, Bresnahan, Blanchard, and Palantonio.

Goldstein’s account of Milk Moshs is sadly true: What can I say? You live in Vermont. You’re going to abuse some dairy.

18. What was your school’s full name?
Hippy Commie Seditionist High.

19. When did you graduate?
68.
(See, back then I could even find a way to act like an asshole with nothing but a two-digit number)

20. What was your school mascot or nickname?
The Purple Mustache and Hat.

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
That’s a messed up question–
And I’ll have you know that in high school I had already read enough Kurt Vonnegut to know the risks of such an action, as well as my own rights in this situation: I do not have to answer that.

22. Did you have fun at Prom?
I missed our Prom but I went to the next one (I think? ) I don’t remember a single about the prom itself, other than the loveliness of Jeanette Vesper. I remember a lot of us crashing at on the floor Morton’s.

I also take pride in the fact that in our High School, I remember everyone referring to it as The Prom. It always creeps me out when I hear it called Prom. Kudos to BUHS in the 80′s for not dropping their articles.

23. Do you still talk to the person you went to Prom with?
If by “talk” you mean “did I just send her a Facebook friend message after being completely out of touch for a decade and a half?”
Then… Yes, all the time!
(Why? Why? Why can’t you just say “The Prom?”)

24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion?
Unless I join the circus. But you guys will understand right? It’s a bad economy!

25. Do you still talk to people from school?
Not enough. And it’s my fault too. Not enough. (If I say it one more time, does it count as a cry for help?)

26. What are/were your school’s colors?
Grimace and Vanilla.

27. In one word how do you think people from school would describe you?
Rhymes with Vassal.
But given 2 words they might modify it with “Funny” or “Loving”…

28. What did you think (back then) your occupation would be after high school?
Actor

29. What do you miss most about High School?
Pat Gillespie posters, arguing with everyone, love in cars, Aron Cassidy, the value given to wit and intellectualism, Ed’s Diner, treating the L.C. like our personal playground, London, Missy’s house was a creative Salon, Late-night pranks and social experiments, “What Information?” Mixtapes for the ladies, comic-book store and mini-Shea, Sanders for Congress ’88 HQ on Saturday afternoon after SAT Prep, Model Congress, School Dances,

The best people I have ever known.