Psycho women's college soccer player gets suspended.

I posted this video on my FB page a couple weeks ago - over 10 million views on Youtube. The bitch was suspended indefinitely. She offers an apology - of sorts. I think she's dangerous and should get a lifetime ban from soccer. Loose cannon. Psycho. Call it what you will. But she tries justifying her behavior on the field (even though she's deeply remorseful about it).

Here's the New York Daily News article.

Psych-o.

Read more!

"She came in through the bathroom window..."

Hmmm. Got this picture and email today:

"Hey...just wanted to say hi and have a merry christmas, also hey do you still have my camera charger i think i left it over there.. just wondering love ya, keep in touch."

You'd think I remembered seeing an errant camera charger at my place, wouldn't ya?

Read more!

Minnie Driver Packs'em In At Hotel Cafe in Hollywood

I think she was looking at me.

Just got back from Ms. Driver's thoroughly enjoying show at Hotel Cafe (see my June 13 post - Women Celebs I Love #1). Wonderful, wonderful singer, Minnie is. That raspy, Brit voice did her well as she soulfully glided through her set of original songs - many of them from her new CD, Seastories (which I'm buying). It was the 2nd show of her tour - she'll be in Santa Barbara tomorrow evening, then on to Oregon, Washington State, New York, among other venues. Unbeknowst to most, she's been singing since she was a child. With well-thought lyrics that we can all relate to, I definately want to see her again. And she plays the gui-tar, too.

There are a few tables up front but unless you arrive early for dinner, you have to stand. This is why I don't go to venues like Hotel Cafe. Nothing wrong with Hotel Cafe - it's intimate enough (maybe 200 people), but I parked my ass (feet) right where all the idiots with restless leg syndrome walk back and forth to go to the bar and out for a smoke. Irritating.

Don't forget to catch this London Critics Circle Film award winner and Oscar and Emmy nominated actress on the 2nd season of F/X's The Riches this fall.

Did I mention that I think she saw me? Yeh - I think she did.

Read more!

The Girls of Solstice 2007 - Santa Barbara

We did watch the floats and drink beer, too, you know.

Read more!

Women Celebs I Love #1 - Minnie Driver

Minnie Driver. This will be a regular feature on the blog, and the #1 denotes first in that series - not that Driver's necessarily my favorite actress. Can't quite put my finger on what it is about her, but she's sort of a combination of two women I've dated. She's currently in the F/X network series, The Riches, but it was her character, Skylar, in Good Will Hunting - and her delivery of a couple lines that endeared her to me:

SKYLAR
You suck.

WILL

What?

SKYLAR

I've been sitting over there for forty-five minutes waiting for you to come talk to me. But I'm (just) tired now and I have to go home and I wasn't going to keep sitting there waiting for you.

I LOVE that line. She's a great singer and I plan on seeing her in July when she plays here in LA.

Read more!

Hiltonapnea. The word, apnea, means, "without breath".

The world is suffering from Hiltonapnea. It's as if we're holding our breath - hanging on the tiniest bit of minutiae that enables us to be consumed with this person's every move. I am the inventor of this word. Here in California it's insufferable. I will not have this word grace the title of a blog on this site. I simply wanted to point out this miserable condition, make you aware of possible symptoms (I don't know what they are because I don't have the disease) and pray that it subsides.

Read more!

Another success story - from my friend, Heather Baldwin, in Cedar Rapids. She won the Barbecue Round-Up logo contest for this year's event. I am so proud of her.
That's Heather - in her own bib. Makes ya just wanna take a bite outta that - logo, don't it? Throw some barbecue sause on dat der logo, yee haw!

Read more!

Me and my clone, Maria. By "clone", I mean Maria's a great catch - and we're similar in many ways. This was taken at my work Christmas party, December 2006, in Venice Beach. I met Maria and her husband, Donovan (who by the way is the kindest man I have ever met, except that he's a Bronco's fan), many years ago when we were all part of the Coronet Theater Lab in West Hollywood. They are my closest friends in CA and they're expecting their first child, Grace, in July. I'm jealous - of Grace, already. Maria's even met my brother, Jason, several times - I think she may like him better than me. Hmmmmmm.

Read more!

Namedropping

My best friend, Tom Kazar, lived in Long Beach for 8 years or so right after we graduated from college. When I moved to LA in 1998, he told me, “Irc, keep one thing in mind – you have everything you could ever want at your fingertips in Los Angeles. Enjoy it while you’re there”. So, ever since I moved here, people have asked me, “have you met anyone famous?”. Here’s the list – saves me the trouble of sitting there with a dumb look on my face when I’m being grilled. NOTE: These are folk I’ve actually met and had a meaningful discussion with. Don’t ask me about what.

Brian Wilson – The Beach Boys “genius”, Wendy Wilson, Carnie Wilson, Chynna Phillips, Marilyn Wilson – Brian Wilson’s ex, Barbara Wilson – Dennis Wilson’s ex, Justyn Wilson – Carl Wilson’s son, Jonah Wilson – Carl Wilson’s son, Ricci Martin – Dean Martin’s son, Jeanne Martin – Dean Martin’s ex, Carl B. Wilson – Dennis Wilson’s son, Michael Wilson – Dennis Wilson’s son, Billie Hinsche – former musician with the Beach Boys and now touring with Al Jardine of the Beach Boys, Anne Hinsche – Carl Wilson’s ex, Jeff Foskett – singer/musician with Brian Wilson, Jay – owner of Chez Jay’s - Dennis Wilson’s favorite hangout, Ed Figuero – former drummer for the Beach Boys, Desi Arnaz Jr., Karen Lamm – Dennis Wilson’s ex-wife, former model/actress, wonderful woman, Jon Stebbins – author of The Real Beach Boy, bio of Dennis Wilson, Alan Boyd – producer of Endless Harmony, Beach Boys bio on VH1, Ed Roach – photographer for the Beach Boys, Jerry Schilling – Memphis Mafia/Elvis’ former mgr., Carl Wilson’s former mgr., Steve Kalinich – co-writer with Dennis Wilson, The Honey’s – Brian Wilson’s girl surf band in the 60’s, Jan Berry & Dean Torrance – Jan & Dean, 60’s surf band pioneers, Earl Hamner Jr. – creator of The Walton’s, Michael Learned – mother in The Walton’s, Jon Walmsley – Jim-Bob in The Walton’s, Seymour Cassell – starred in a lot of John Cassavettes films, The Life Aquatic, Rob Reiner, Merv Griffin, Eugene Levy – SCTV, Waiting for Guffman, Carlos Alazraqui - the voice of the Taco Bell Chihuahua, Reno 911!, Bruce Boxleitner, Megan Gallagher – China Beach, Jack Klugman, Bruce Dern, Jeff Conaway, Dominic Monaghan, Cory Feldman, Mike Farrell – son of Mike Farrell from MASH, Dan Lauria – father from The Wonder Years, Alley Mills – mother from The Wonder Years, Richard Roxburgh – Van Helsing, Mission Impossible II, Tim Conway, Ernest Borgnine, Michelle Phillips – Mamas & the Papas, Doug McKeon - the boy in On Golden Pond, Dick Martin – from Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Scott Bakula, Ashton Kutcher, Steven Lisberger – Screenwriter of Tron, Martinez, A. – The Cowboys, Port Charles, Santa Barbara, Don Cornelius – creator and host, Soul Train, Corbin Bernsen – LA Law, Major League, Joe Lando – Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman .

I think I'm tickled the most by the Beach Boys-related celebs as I've been a Beach Boy groupie since high school. Everyone was extremely laid back - like old friends, and I've met them all (as has my brother, Jason) on several occasions while involved with the Carl Wilson Cancer Foundation. Eugene Levy and I had a succinct conversation while standing at the bathroom urinals at Rob Reiner's production company in Beverly Hills. Earl Hamner is an avid fisherman and has a beautiful, trophy marlin on the wall in his office in Studio City. What a thrill it was meeting him! If you didn't already know, the TV series, The Waltons, was based on Earl's real life in Virginia, and Earl IS John-Boy, who was my inspiration to major in Journalism in college. John-Boy, that is. Well...Earl, too, I guess. Also, that was Earl's voice you heard narrating each episode. Ricci Martin, Dean Martin's son, is a wonderful man and a chip off the old block (I'll get to Deano in another blog). Karen Lamm - well I'm gonna keep most of that story to myself. Embodiment of the 70's Californian girl, she was a model/actress and graced billboards, television and magazine ads, while hanging out with Jack Nicholson and Elliott Gould, and she was married to Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys twice. I first met Karen at her apartment in West LA, and as she eyed me up and down, she said that if she had met me "back in the day" she woulda "went for me in a second"...which has to be one of the most flattering things anyone has ever shared with me. Her heart gave out in 2001 and most certainly was taken from this life much too early - she was 49. I went to her funeral and the reception that followed at her sister's house. Elliott Gould, Judd Nelson and Catherine Bach were in attendance. I'm thankful I got to know her that last year of her life...and I think of her often.

I probably missed a couple. There's a bunch I've seen from afar (Tom Cruise - 20 yards) or seen and just said "hi" to (Jack Lemmon, walking his poodle) - but I didn't bother to get into all that. You might have noticed Mel Gibson and Brett Favre are not on the list. Yet.

Read more!