Friday, June 20, 2008

30,000 + Hits and Still Goin' Strong!

30,000 hits, baby!

Just want to take a minute on this Friday night to say thanks to everyone for reading. Keep the hits coming, as always feel free to leave comments, and hopefully someday soon we'll be up to 100,000!

As I write this, I just got back from a great dinner at Miceli's restaurant near Universal Studios. The one and only Kirsten S. is in LA from the Land Down Under, where women glow and men plunder (as they say), along with her Aussie companion. Me, Seth, and fellow BU alum Nolan R met up for some good food and fun, and it was great catching up.

And guess who we saw dining at Miceli's with some sort of special lady friend? In what has to be one of the greatest celeb sightings in recent memory, none other than Dustin Diamond, aka SCREECH freaking POWERS from Saved By the Bell (and of late notorious for going bankrupt, being a celeb boxer, and making a hardcore porno movie), strolled past our table!!! SCREECH! Gotta love LA, baby.

Oh, and that reminds me - the other day at work, on Tuesday, none other than JEWEL was performing an outdoor concert at Ther Tonight Show which employees were invited to attend. I went to check it out, and not only was I treated to and up close and personal view of the sultry singer, but I also got to see the other guests who had appeared on that edition of The Tonight Show. After Jewel's first song ("I Do," a pretty solid tune, by the way), Jay brought out comedy legend Don Rickles - pretty cool - and then ... the entire INSIDE THE NBA team. Yes, right there in front of me was the legendary lineup of Ernie Johnson, Kenny "THE JET" Smith, and one of my all-time personal heroes and my all-time fave NBA player ... CHARLES BARKLEY!!! I was shocked and amazed at this turn of events - I mean, awesome!

On a sidenote, while it was awesome to see an old friend today in Kirsten, prior to dinner I stopped by Universal Citywalk, specifically dueling piano bar Howl at the Moon, to wish Paul L. farewell as he heads back east and leaves LA for Boston. As one of the few guys I know who can participate in unironic analysis of professional wrestling, I wish Paul the best of luck in his new Beantown digs.

So you might be wondering, what's a bigtime Hollywood player like myself doing writing a blog on a Friday when the night is still young? Well, bright and early tomorrow, a bunch of us are heading down to Disneyland for a day of fun and Disney magic. Should be quite the day, especially since it will be close to 100 degrees. Yikes.

But once again - thanks for reading. 30,000 hits and this is just the beginning. Hopefully there will be many all-new and all-awesome adventures to come.

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