When I heard that my friend Sig was ill — and in a long-term residence care home — I made time to run over to see him. As I walked in, the room was alive with activity — his daughter Jennifer was moving a bed out, things were being re-arranged, and I saw an opening…
For Vin’s 70th birthday yesterday, I wanted to surprise him. He loves doughnuts — or is it “donuts”? — and I arranged to have Kim Spurkel from Dazzzling Donuts come to Vin’s office … where she set up a mini-factory, and made 1,000 donuts in an hour. Her husband Alex came out with his “UltraBooth”,…
www.welcometolace.org/ I met Sarah Russin at the end of a welcome reception for the interim President of Rhode Island School of Design, Rosanne Somerson when she came to Los Angeles last week. Sarah gave me her business card and told me she worked for “LACE”, which seems to be a way to feature artists. Since…
Jeff D. works hard, and his office is not around the corner from where we had a “Welcome” event for RISD alumni. Even so, he was in good spirits and gave us a bright smile when he arrived with his daughter Andie & her roommate Xavier. I appreciated his bringing his daughter, who’s now in…
The new interim President of Rhode Island School of Design was coming to town, and we wanted to have a ‘welcome party’. We needed a location for easy travel that was traffic-friendly. A place with good food we wouldn’t have to worry about. Easy listening acoustics, a requirement. So President Rosanne Somerson would feel comfortable…
Sal Viscuso has been acting for years. On “SOAP”, with Robert Guillaume. On “CSI”, and many other network dramas. He’s been on stage before, too — but yesterday I saw him in the best showcase of his talents ever. “A STEADY RAIN” at the blue-painted “ODYSSEY THEATER” on Sepulveda Boulevard in West L.A. He strode…
At the “Virtual Type-In” a few weeks ago — staged by my friend Louise Marler, famous typewriter artist — I hauled down my Olympia Compact 2 to type people’s letters. We had typewriters inside and out. Vintage, including kinds I’d never seen before. I was billed as the “Ghost Writer”. Louise tried to dictate…
I met a room full of fascinating thinkers tonight. At a party for Rhode Island School of Design’s new interim President Rosanne Somerson. One thinker is an architect who is blogging about ‘building a hillside home’. Padraic Cassidy. “Building a Hillside Home”. I told him about my blog and we promised “I’ll show you mine…
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After the “AFV” video presentation at The Peterson Museum, I decided to write three follow-ups. One to Rich Connor, who produced the special. One to Bruce Meyer, who invited Vin to speak at the Museum. And one to Michele Nasraway, who is Vin’s Co-Executive Producer and knows the show inside & out. Michele graciously gave…
