Missing: My Imaginary Friend SteveI was browsing through my Flickr page the other day and noticed that one of my photos has over 30,000 views! I took this photo on Robson St. in Vancouver, back in 2002. Nat and I had flown out here for a week to take a look around and see if Vancouver was somewhere we’d want to move to.

We were walking down Robson St. together when I caught this out of the corner of my eye. The sidewalk was pretty busy, but I managed to get a slightly blurry photo. I never did check out the website or call the phone number listed on the sign to see what it was really about.

What’s funny is that a quick Google for “Missing my imaginary friend Steve” shows that the photo has been downloaded and re-posted all over the place. That’s very cool, although I am a bit annoyed that some places like imagepoop.com have gone and stuck their own watermark on the photo. But whatever, I didn’t come up with the poster in the first place, I just took the photo.

The text on the photo reads:

Missing: My Imaginary Friend Steve
(Picture taken 3 years ago) Last seen March 21. Frequents discount sushi bars and polka raves. If you see him, tell him Vince is sorry about the ice cream and to come home.