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Past Tense

By by Tom Friend

Monday, August 5, 2002

LP has a story to tell, a damn fantastic one, and it has to do with a bathroom, a minor league, a mother, a Barry Sanders video and a hotel overlooking a Barcelona topless beach. Problem is, he won't tell it, not today, not tomorrow, not in the book friends tell him to write. It's the "orphan" in him that keeps him quiet. Or it's the police record in him, the assault and DUI and barroom arrest in him, that keeps him shaking his head. Or it's the Nebraska in him, the 3 a.m. Nebraska phone call i ...

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