Matt here
I Was around from '89 on. Rode a bicycle all the time, and read heinlein novels. I did hear from Dave sorenson aka hippy dave. He lives over in the methow valley. Married with a child.
Im over in spokane, with wife and kids. Im back in school, going first for my bachelors in chemistry, and I have plans to get my masters in education. Im also in the midst of getting ready for this years Librafest.
I don't get over to Seattle often. maybe three times a year. My next possible trip will be in November.
I wish there was a coffeehouse here in spokane open past 10pm that wasnt a starbucks. Well, now that Im back in school, its not as if Id have time to go there anyway. sour grapes anyone?

Shawn died about 3-4 years ago, I don't remember exactly. And Karl Nicolai about a year later.

Hiya peoples. I see here many familiar faces, good to see some are still staying in contact and passing on the stories. Though I often lament the scattering of the community that made up the original XIT, I recognize that it was about all of us, our diversity, and our synergy. I consider myself fortunate to have had the experience of its magnitude.
"Time is an enourmous long river of important events and important ideas and I am standing in it just as you are standing in it. Our elders were the tributaries. Everything they thought and every struggle they went through and every song they created and every poem that they laid down flows down to us. If we take the time to ask, if we take the time to see, if we take the time to reach out we can build a bridge between our time theirs and we can reach down to take from that river what we need to get through this world. Bridges from my time to your time and my elders from their time to my time all put into that river and we let it go and it flows away from us and away from us until it no longer carries our names or our identities. It has its own utility its own use. People take what they need to make a part of their lives." ~observations of Utah Philips

Oh, btw, I am almost certain that Lou is not living in Monroe... unless he moved in with Noah.

Wow, reality check. I was starting to believe that my memories of all these names and places was just a drug-addled dream. Apparently not so. I see a lot of references I recognize here. I was in the Exit/YellowHouse scene from around 90-93 before sorta dropping out to do my own thing. The only one I'm still in fairly regular contact with is Skater Chuck, tho it's not been too long since I've heard from Jacques, Tygar, Joanie, Ben & Jingles (married after years apart), Paris, Stephen and some others. I knew about some of the deaths (Long live Toad!) but what happend to Che?? Would love to know what ever became of Bradley, John & Ruth John (still locked up?), Idiot Rick, Gem, Lisa, Chip Sandifer, and so many others as memory unfolds.