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I don’t usually like LJ “memes” but this one allows me the indulgence of self-aggrandizing oneupmanship. So let’s kick it.

Ten Things I Have Done That You Probably Haven’t

1. Seen a supersonic airliner crash
   
2. Been sued by my psychotherapy clinic
   
3. Got a get-well card from the French absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco
   
4. Been a passenger in a WWII-era Grumman Goose flying boat and landed on water
   
5. Crashed America Online. All of it.
   
6. Been the subject of a months-long campaign of hate by Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell
   
7. Lived ten years in Los Angeles without a car
   
8. Had a warrant out for my arrest for jaywalking
   
9. Fought rats in the dark basement of a Venetian palazzo
   
10. Seen Charlie Chaplin in person

Another little sample of Bob Trout in mid fugue

“...and we’d come right through the door, big targets but we’re moving fast, it’s all over quickly. Palm trees and gunfire, another day at the beach. You get that light filtering down through the leaves and the smell of charcoal, diesel, and bacon fat. There’s nothing like it. Anyway I’m alive and I’m in Paradise.”

#6 from my list: Perry and Me

Rerun: http://substitute.livejournal.com/88352.html

What a strange time that was. Perry said that I looked like Jon Lovitz as the Liar, and he yelled on stage “FUCK THE READER, FUCK CONRAD HEINEY, AND FUCK CARY DARLING AND BAM MAGAZINE!” and later Cary and I met and went to lunch to toast our success at pissing Perry off. Still really glad his feces package didn’t make it. Still don’t like his stuff, although “Had a Dad” is a pretty fuckin’ tight song. Wasn’t surprised later that he got his band on heroin to keep them around.

Only in Newport Beach..

...can you be murdered by the guy who paid $400,000 in cash for your boat...

....who is also an offroading freak...

...and possibly a former child actor from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Unintentionally perfect domain name

hilaryswankfan.com