Not something I hear everyday…

So I’m at my friend Min Jung’s birthday last night at this bar and I look around and geeks have just consumed the joint. Literally everywhere you look, someone has just come from a venture capital meeting, sold something (perhaps even a kidney) to Yahoo and, as I did, feels completely in their element yelling insults based on tag clouding.

Oh and there’s karaoke. My “where’s the party” friend Glenda belting out “I Feel For You” did not surprise me. Nor did my kareoke hero Ernie knocking “Don’t Stop Believin'” out of the park. But please tell me someone has pictures of his duet partner, the unassuming, quietly-taking-over-the-world Andy Baio, hitting the high notes?

And then it was my turn. I have trouble being near a singin’ machine and not wanting to do my one and only song U2’s “With or Without You.” I’ve embarassed myself with it before. A lot.

So I do my thing. Glenda joins in. I sing every other line because its safer than harmonizing (harma-what now?). When I finish, I slink away. I run into my friend Lucia who remarks…

“That just made my night.”

I think it’s time to take those singing lessons I’ve been talking about. One of my life’s ambitiions is to be a decent karaoke singer. Maybe I’m on my way.

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