Five years ago was a crazy time. Lots of artists I knew on the cusp of this and that. Below is one of the boys, below that ma' boy, and farther down still is the boy -- all of them in photos from half a decade ago, long before anyone cared.

"The only recent photograph of him (taken many years ago) is of him wearing a furious face as he fends off an intruding cameraman." Indeed. His name is J.D. Salinger, and now he's dead.