Three Old Friends
Met up with three old friends tonight, at Waziema in our hood. In a city of techies and creatives, I mostly know techies, so it was cool to spend some time with these guys, who I grew up with in suburban San Jose and went on to do such cool things:
- Jack Hu is a painter, has had several shows in SF, and just created a piece specially for his high school reunion that involved a Zombie Jesues wearing a crown of thorns, babies as WMDs, and lots of phalluses.
- Paul Burson has been in pop bands since he was 14 and is now finishing his degree in philosophy while training to be a professional composer.
- Eamonn Mills was into Civil War reenactments in high school – he alwasy fought for the Confederacy – has seen more WWII movies than I have seen movies, and learned to sail tall ships about eight years ago. He just bought a 35-foot schooner that he lives on in Maine. He's fixing her up to make his living taking folks out for cruises around the SF Bay ...which means that at some point in the next few years, he'll have to sail through the Panama Canal.
I gave Eamonn a 1915 edition of John Masefield's Sea Fever tonight because I want to be on that boat when he takes her from one coast to the other. He would have gladly let me come aboard for free, but I convninced him he should charge at least $100 per week for the experience. The book is my down payment on that passage.
