July 29, 2007
How Good Was Steve Barr Happy Hour Last Friday?
I've always thought that you could judge the quality of a night out on the town by the wackiness of the business cards you find stuffed in your pocket when you peel yourself off the living room couch the next morning. That being the case, it is safe to say that Friday night's festivities in Manhattan with Green Dot CEO Steve Barr were a doozie.
It was a fun enough time inside the bar, as a fun crowd of ed reform-types were on hand to talk shop. But one of the highlights came near the end of the night, on the street outside, when a small group of late-nighters had the pleasure of bumping into Krazy George, the guy who first invented 'the wave' in big league sports stadiums.
Seriously, the guy is a living legend.
Special credit goes to Barr, who actually recognized Krazy George on the sidewalk. I had forgotten about the chance encounter until I found a baseball card style business card stuffed in my shirt pocket on Saturday morning featuring "Krazy George - Professional Cheerleader." Gotta love that.
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n addition to some other fun NYC folks who were on hand (like Iris Chen, Steven Wilson, Nancy McDonnell Scharff, etc.) we were lucky enough to be able to hang out with the Los Angeles-based Piscalnator, who was on the east coast for a Baptism. Mike Piscal is a Huffington Post blogger and founder and CEO of the Inner City Education Foundation, which runs a host of high-performing public charter schools in L.A. (Mike is pictured here - no relation to Krazy George that DFER knows about.)
It was a fun night, and something we'd like to do more of in the future. Drop me a line if you can think of any special guests of honor around which we should build a happy hour or three.
PS - This is a pretty good piece on the Piscalnator (as Eduwonk calls him) that I found on a cross-country flight last year.
UPDATE: Alexander Russo, who attended the event, links Steve Barr with Lindsey Lohan.
