And That’s All I Have To Say About That
Best way to honor JD Salinger is to pay no attention to his demise. He would’ve wanted it that way.
Afterward: Michael Jackson Memorial
As one of the 8,750 people selected out of the million-plus who submitted requests for tickets to the Michael Jackson Public Memorial Tuesday, I attended the July 7, 2009 event at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. Though very much a life-long fan of Michael Jackson, I went somewhat cynically to observe the spectacle. But …
I Call This My Layman’s Lucky Mofo Press Pass to the Michael Jackson Memorial
Having the good fortune to be one of 8,750 out of the million-plus who requested tix, I just got back from biking over to Dodger Stadium to pick up the necessary ornamentation and documentation to permit me enter the Kingdom of Jackopalooza tomorrow.
Guess Who They’re Letting In To The Jackopalooza!?
Gotta admit, I submitted my request to attend the Michael Jackson Memorial at Staples Center tomorrow far more to just bear witness to the public spectacle than to publicly bare any grief at his passing. And when yesterday came and went without getting confirmation — especially with the news that I was literally among a …
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My Farrah Post on LA Metblogs Got Some Cyber-Ink In New York Magazine!
Fellow LA Metblogger David Markland just hipped me to the fact that my post there yesterday remembering when I met Farrah Fawcett, was deemed worthy of inclusion in New York Magazine’s Daily Intel column featuring an online roundup under the headline of “Farrah Fawcett’s Touching Tributes.” Neato!
Mourning Has Broken
Literally no sooner had my reminiscing post recalling the day I “met” Farrah Fawcett gone live at L.A. Metblogs when news started trickling in about Michael Jackson. To say goodbye to one adored icon of my youth — in essence my Marilyn Monroe — was tough enough. But on the same day for a cherished …
Richard Sylvan Selzer, RIP
Way back in another life when I was the theater critic at-large and filing a theater review every Monday for the Pasadena Weekly newspaper, I once found myself at Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse seated directly behind one Richard Sylvan Selzer — far more recognizable as Mr. Blackwell, the self-styled arbiter of taste most famously known for …