bootleg PlayStation games around
school. Kids would give him their
PlayStation, and he’d bring it back a
few days later with a chip in it that
enabled them to play pirated games,
which he would then sell them.
Bolo was friends with this white kid
and fellow pirate named Andrew,
who traded in bootleg CDs. Andrew
was two grades above me and a real
computer geek; he even had a CD
writer at home, back when nobody
had CD writers.
One day on my tuck-shop
rounds, I overheard Andrew and
Bolo complaining about the black
kids at school. They’d realized that