Friday the 13th. Unlucky for some? Not for San Fran Sean. Oh no, he's been celebrating Friday the 13th's for 29 years....
We met in Hong Kong a few years ago and he hosts a party every Friday 13th at a local venue wherever he is in the world. The invite landed in my electronic pigeon hole the other day:
Over the years I have been celebrating these Friday 13th's in various places in the world that I have happened to be at the time... starting in London in 1977... Italy, Germany, Mexico, Singapore, the U.S. (mostly San Francisco), Pt. Barrow-300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and more recently in Hong Kong, Vancouver and Miami. Now I am back in San Francisco to celebrate, my 50th Friday 13th and my own peculiar homage to Bollinger Champagne!!!...
His logic is that everyone is worried that it will be a bad day. So what better way to brighten things up than by having a party. With Champage. Only Champagne. And he pays. As long as you drink Bollinger Champagne. The rules are easy: the party ends when either, he has no more money, or their is no more Bolly, or he has expired.
We'll be raising a glass tonight Sean!