Well lo and behold, my first friend on the block - one Robert Near Esq. - has linked from his blog to my electriconic periodical. I was going to hold off on further posts until a day or so before I left (Sept. 30th, to arrive on Oct. 1st, not the 5th as my hard drinking pal quoted on his own internet soapbox). But now I guess it is only polite to return the favor by linking to him. For those of you discovering Rob for the first time, I guess I should provide a primer.
-Rob is riding out a stretch of time in Taiwan, after teaching English for most of it, he has realized a dream of mine by getting paid to write!
-He is 6'5, making him the only guy I know taller than me. At twenty-four, I guess I can't count on puberty to kick in even more and even the score. Ladies, bring footstools!
-Rob and I met when we were both four years old at nursery school in the stoic frontier town of Carp. While our parents were off bartering animal pelts for elbow grease to use on the wagon axles, Rob would generally elect himself king of the trampoline while I hurridly stuffed my pockets with an entire civilization of worms - worms which always broke my heart when they mysteriously failed to adapt to their new evironment and died before I got home for "snacky-wacks".
If you spot this man, be sure to say "Hello" and then bask in a verbal style much more precise and economical than my own. Buy him a drink, no matter what your minister of finance may advise, because odds are that he has done something that day to deserve it.
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thanks for the link and profile Mr. Brackenbury. Hard drinking, eh? Yikes. Don't tell my Mom!
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