Author Jen Jones (Celebrity With Heart: Oprah Winfrey) and writer Dan Donatelli (twitter.com/thenewyoinker) join The Second Column podcast as the show dials up its first guest via Skype (comedian Doug Driesel Jr.), Joe and Jen play Dating Game!, Dan plays joke sniper, the gang talks about Huey Lewis Nation’s hatred for Joe and everyone gives Mike new nicknames. You can listen to or download the show here: www.thesecondcolumn.com
This is a clip from India’s 2009 Telugu language blockbuster Magadheera. I don’t know what this Bollywood movie is about, but I have a feeling the plot centers around unrelenting awesomeness.
Photo by Chris Miller, Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa, via Palm Springs Desert Sun
VALLEY CENTER, Calif. _ I attended a Huey Lewis and The News concert on Saturday and was pleasantly surprised to learn that 1.) Huey Lewis is still alive 2.) The News accounts for approximately one-third of all professional saxophone jobs in the United States 3.) I was the only man in attendance who did not look like he was thinking about how sweet Huey Lewis music sounds on his pleasure boat. This is mainly because I do not own a pleasure boat, and if I did, I would not play Huey Lewis music. I would only play the theme from Shaft.
We arrived at Harrah’s Rincon Casino on time, but missed the opening song. We missed it because the security guards at Open Sky Theater would not let my girlfriend Jen enter with her digital camera, which she mainly uses to photograph summer salads, and is in no way powerful enough to capture perfect photographs of Huey Lewis that she can then sell to TMZ or the Russian mafia or whomever concert organizers imagine people sell Huey Lewis photos to on the black market.
My brother Tom and Tom’s wife Liz check back in with The Second Column podcast after one year of marriage (they came on Ep. 91 the week before they were married) to talk about dating other couples, the keys to a successful marriage and how to cool baby fever, as well as the Ohio University time change riots and police monkeys. Also, Mike explains why he does not ride bicycles. Download or listen to the show at: http://www.thesecondcolumn.com/
Friend and podcast guest Paige White (Episode 130) is on the cover of LA Weekly for her role in the play The War Cycle. She is in part one – Wounded, which has four performances remaining at the Powerhouse Theater in Santa Monica. Paige is a phenomenal actress and this attention is well-deserved.
To read LA Weekly’s extensive review, click here. To learn more about the play (tickets, etc.), click here.
From the Back Stage review: “A deeply troubling play, delivered with intensity by a cast of involved, passionate actors, this is reality theatre, a document that doesn’t presume to offer easy answers to the difficult questions it poses. But this production takes no prisoners. Strong language, deeply emotional situations, and visceral performances combine to make this a thinking and a feeling person’s play.”
The photo above is from the LA Weekly’s website. Sadly, a digital copy of the cover only exists in thumbnail form. But that is Paige below. I swear.
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