I know for a fact that there are people walking around in the big world out there who look a lot like me. Doppelgangers.
I've previously been mistaken for a delinquent college drop-out, a hotel manager, and someone who works on a movie set - none of which are me, but none of which are all that far from me, either. I met the hotel manager; we do strongly resemble one another. I even have Jeff Shyluk as my cousin, although we don't look much like at all. His claim to fame is dressing up as the Molson Old Style Pilsner Rabbit for Saskatchewan Roughrider games. There's no easy way for me to explain how this works if you don't know about CFL football and prairie beer.
So, I'm kind of used to seeing myself out in the wild when it's not me. Above is a picture I pulled (without permission, but I am using it for personal illustration) from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation website. I included the arrow just to make certain which person I think looks like me. Or at least seventy-five percent like me, not a clone, but in a dark room from a few feet away I bet we'd look enough alike.
The man in the middle with the hat is Robi Botos, the feature of the photo. He's a Canadian jazz pianist living in Toronto. The rest of these people are his friends, and that's all the CBC had to say about them.
The friend with the arrow has either a guitar strap round his neck or more likely a strap for a large saxomophone. I used the Internet to find saxomophonists who are likely to play with Robi Botos, and the name and picture for Seamus Blake came up. Most pictures of Mr. Blake look only maybe 50% like me, so this CBC photo is a bit of a fluke. Still, recent portraits of the man show some resemblance to me. Plus, although he lives in New York, he has roots in Vancouver. It's not outside the realm of possibility that we could run into each other, especially at the posh hotel with that manager.
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