In the past few days, I’ve run into a couple of friends — either directly or indirectly — whom I haven’t seen in a while:
- George Justus
found me while Googling for our high school alma mater, De La Salle
College “Oaklands”. He and I were part of a small group, the “Eight
Year Men”, who attended school at “Del” for the complete span of grades
it offered: from sixth grade to grade 13 (yes, back then, there were
five years of high school, 9 through 13). He dropped me a line via
email last week — Hi, George, and expect an email from me later today!
- I ran into Anthony Famularo
yesterday at Easter Brunch at the Boulevard Club. Anthony is also a
classmate of mine from De La Salle, and he plays a role in the Best Date Ever story, which I shall continue soon.
Anthony’s got a blog. I knew it was his the moment I stumbled across
the phrase “my asshole lawyer friend Nick”. I too am a friend of that
asshole lawyer.
(Some of you may say that “asshole lawyer” is redundant. Seeing as the CEO of my company,
my department-mate Darryl Green, my future father-in-law and several
blood relatives are lawyers or have law degrees, I’m going to do some
hand-waving and say that not every L.L.B. is an asshole. However, if it
were a crime to be an asshole, there’d be enough evidence to execute
Nick twice.)
Anthony told me that a mutual friend of ours, Nadine Lacalamita, who also happens to have been a classmate of my sister’s at her high school, Havergal College, owns and runs the 2 Cats
lounge on King Street West, which happens to be stumbling distance from
my house. He goes there every couple of weeks, and I’m hoping to join
him and catch up with him and Nadine.
- Cliff, the original owner of my first accordion, found my Why Accordion? article and wrote back to me in the comments. Good to hear from you!
- Like Cliff, Sean Silcoff
was a fellow member of Crazy Go Nuts University’s “Media Mafia”. Sean’s
now Montreal Bureau Chief for the Financial Post and his current series
of articles (part one / part two) is on Embraer, the little Brazilian aircraft company that
could. Ever since flying down to Boston to see Wendy became a regular ritual
for me, I’ve become rather familiar with the ERJ — the Embraer
Regional Jet, the “commuter plane” which acts as the workhorse for
regional airlines such as American Eagle.
