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Toronto, 2002.09.13

Met with Tamara Atkin from my Medialinx days for coffee this aft. She seemed happy; she's converting to Catholicism for her fiancee.

After hours, I met with David Kang, Lui Bove, Ching Lee and Patrick Wong from my Trimark days (e.g. six-eight years ago!). We compared notes on the last few years of our lives: David said he'd been at Trimark (now AIM) for 9 years; Lui said he'd been there for 10! There was plenty of talk about yet another round of layoffs, just a week before. And, of course, the AIM/Brandes suit, in which some of the individual employees named are being sued for $1m!

rand()m quote

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

—Lenny Bruce