Simon Kelly
Chief Operating Officer
Seattle
Simon spent three months in Minsk in 1981. One day, he and his friends decided to rent a car and explore the city. Soon, two white “Zils” started tailing them. They momentarily lost the tail, and spied a picturesque village through some woods. After wandering through the village, they stumbled upon a military base with tanks and rocket carriers. They hurried back to the car—only to find the tires slashed, presumably by their “friends.”
In Simon’s younger days, he went to Las Vegas and visited Comdex, the huge computer show. After two days of trying to recreate Andy Warhol’s sleep deprivation experiment and a series of unfortunate bad decisions, Simon found himself locked inside a 30-floor fire escape, naked as the day he was born, with the only exit being on the ground floor to the wasteland at the back of the hotel…
