Are we the same people we were forty years ago? Some thoughts on what Mötley Crüe can teach us about navigating a high school class reunion.
It was a magical moment. That's how Barry put it, and who am I to disagree? Barry Goldblatt is my friend and literary agent. He also happens to be literary agent to actor/ comedian/ author Michael Ian Black, with whom you may be familiar. This past November, Barry
Let me tell you about the night I hung out with Mötley Crüe. Okay, to be honest, it was only half of Mötley Crüe, and it's not like we were out clubbing it up with groupies and blow. But we were at a club. I was reminded of
I had no idea what to expect when I arrived at the Sanfilippo Estate last Saturday afternoon. I certainly didn't expect to feel as if I were literally walking into the mind of Gene Wolfe, but that's what it was like. The occasion was an evening
Our celebrity sightings have definitely tailed off since we moved to Chicago, but █████ and one of her colleagues had a good one the other day. At the same hot dog joint where they were grabbing lunch, they spotted Dennis DeYoung of Styx. (I'd suggest that he had too
In today's mail, I received an invitation to have my biography included in the next Marquis Who's Who in America. I knew already that it was a scam, but if I hadn't I would have guessed as much from the fact that the invitation
Anna Nicole Smith, née Vickie Lynn Hogan, a/k/a Vickie Smith, a/k/a Miss May 1992, a/k/a 1993 Playmate of the Year ... we barely knew ye. Unless, you know, we were Playboy subscribers back in the early '90s. Rest in the peace you never found
Hearing a friend's story last night about spotting a coyote crossing Santa Monica Boulevard reminded me that █████ and I have had some wildlife sightings recently. August 24th, pulling into our hotel parking lot in Anaheim after having been to Disneyland, we spotted a huge raccoon lumbering across the
To my great astonishment and delight, model-turned-actress Pollyanna McIntosh and her husband, Melrose Place's own Grant Show, would appear to have posted a reply to a blog entry of mine from last month. In writing about the experience of attending a screening of indie horror flick Headspace, I
TODAY'S WEATHER CLOUDY SHOWERS SYLVESTER STALLONE
Miguel Ferrer (most recently seen as the mid-level drug dealer arrested in San Diego by Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman in Traffic). I spotted him entering an apartment building on Columbus as I returned to the office from my esophageal X ray. The radiologist told me to drink copious amounts
I mentioned a couple of celebrity sightings a few posts ago. We used to have a whiteboard here at the office that listed the nearby celebrity sightings for everyone in our group. We also had an elaborate set of rules about what counted as a celebrity sighting. Public appearances didn&
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