A few weeks ago, an old friend of mine from my grade school days (back in New York) found me via this website of mine. We emailed back and forth a few times and it’s been great catching up with him again. His name is Phil Skiba and he truly is a quality person. Sometimes I get pissed at myself for not having kept in touch with him, one of the few people I knew back then, that I should have stayed in contact with.
Yesterday, I was checking my site stats and ran across a referring website called Badgersraygun.com/blog and I poked around the blog and realized it was Phil’s. I began to read his various entries and ran across one about myself and this ridiculously wonderful nickname one of Phil’s sisters had given me, unbeknownst to myself. Phil recounts our friendship and how it influenced each other and then goes on to explain the nickname in another entry. It was wonderful to read his story, well written and full of funny shit I had forgotten, it was also very special for me to read his thoughts since I, having up and left New York a few years in to high school, kinda just thought everyone had forgotten about me. Thanks Phil, great story. One of these days, I’ll return the favor.
Here’s Phil’s story:
Cream Cheese Flingin’ Eddie Fladung’s Blog
and here’s his explanation of the nickname:
Why is he called Cream Cheese Flingin’ Eddie Fladung?
give Phil a comment or two. wonderful stuff.
What a great flashback. I really like this friend of yours. It’s great to hear these stories about when you were a kid, i can totally picture you and the whole dynamic there. I love the way you impacts the lives of the people you become friends with. We’re all the better for it. Miss you.