The Secret Society of Upstairs at Eric's

So I had an entry, pulled it last night, reposting this morning. As I found a holy grail of mine yesterday, which is the Yaz Upstairs at Eric’s cassette tape. And I thought about it all night and all morning. It was an unspoken subculture in the early ‘80s. Where people who had it, had it, and people who didn’t, didn’t. But I was only partially kidding when I said, if we met last century, this is the basis of our friendship. Or this was probably the basis of our friendship. But there is a kinship with people who had it and get it, and people who didn’t. And so many people across the middle school and high school popularity spectrum had it. I don’t know if it was happening in Houston alone, but I know it was happening in Dallas, and I’ve had people I’m not friends with comment on this post about how important that cassette was to people. There were a few like it, but this was the one that if you’ve got it, it’s understood. It was unnamed, and you didn’t even have to talk about it. You…