Dan Baxter

With the largest cranium I’ve ever seen, I affectionately call Dan “Fat Head”.  Dan is sharp and sharp-dressed.  In South African parlance he might be described as a reverse Oreo: white on the outside and black inside.  As comfortable in a three-piece suit and talking about global politics as he is reciting gangsta rap lyrics while kicking back in a Dutch coffee house, Dan is wickedly witty and a political junkie.  While I lived in Cape Town, I was lucky to be invited to Dan’s wedding in South Africa where he married his wife Rachel at one of the funniest ceremonies I’ve every witnessed as it was overseen by a rookie Afrikaans ‘Minister’ who had a poor grasp of English and an even worse sense of what jokes were appropriate at a wedding.  Dan now lives in California and I look forward to enjoying a drink with him while kicking it ‘oldskool’ with some LL Cool J or his favourite Tupac track.