Okay, just added 50 or so new friends. I kept a careful tally as I made my way up to 1000. I didn’t want to misscount. It wasn’t the guy from Bangladesh or the girl from China writing a thesis on Facebook. It was almost my high school friend’s mom (sorry marjorie..you were 2 away). It wasn’t woody allen (or the person claiming to be woody allen) who added me as a friend this morning. (I am not making that up. How could you make that up?) The winner of the Hal’s 1000th Friend Contest is…drum roll…


MARIE ANGELL from Houston, Texas.


Good going Marie!


I’ve messaged Marie and am anxiously waiting to hear back from her. Since she’s in Texas and I’m in Toronto, I think I’ll send her flowers. Then we can chat online and I’ll find out all about her and if she’s okay to have me post what I find online, I’ll certainly do so. For now, all I can tell you is that she is a musician in a band and she seems like a pretty cool, fun person. Check out her band The Snake Charmers.


Thanks for being my 1000th Facebook pal Marie!


Hal.