Tuesday May 25, 2004

Will the Real Jim Hanas Please Stand Up?

As an avid egomaniac, I’ve been lucky to have a name that is unusual enough that I have enjoyed what every self-absorbed writer desires most — an uninterrupted Google search. A few weeks ago, if you typed in “Jim Hanas” or “James Hanas” it was all me. All that’s changed.

Apparently, The Westfield Leader & The Times of Scotch Plains-Fanwood in Westfield, N.J., has decided to get in the game and post all of its back issues online, and now there’s this other James Hanas in my Google. And he looks like a real contender. He is a perennial force on Westfield High School’s Distinguished Honor Roll, and — as recently as 1998 — he helped lead the Athletics (pictured) to the International League championship of the Westfield Baseball League. Now tell me, how am I supposed to compete with that?

The clock is ticking, clearly. I’ve only got a few good years left before James Hanas the younger graduates and goes out into the world. My advice: Stay away from the journalism classes, kid. Wouldn’t you rather be a doctor?

Posted by jim at 08:27 AM ||