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Moss walked into my office and said, “Some of the younger kids in the office are going across the street for happy hour. Two dollar beers …” This was just a few hours after I walked out into the 2600 Colorado lobby to greet a prospective employee and practically bumped into Harry Shearer and Mike…

I’m sitting on the bed in room #634 of the Doubletree Guest Suites. I’m watching “The Big Idea With Donny Deutsch.” They’re discussing the American Idol scandal. The ferris wheel on the Santa Monica pier is blinking out of the corner of my eye. I don’t know what else to say, or where to start,…

I have arrived in Los Angeles. The evidence is everywhere. Outside my window, through a thicket of palm trees, across PCH-1, and over the Santa Monica Mountains, the sun is setting. I see the ocean, the “deep and frozen sea.” Gary Coleman is on the TV. “Need a loan?” Local news is reporting a freeway…

That’s me hobnobbing with Pennsylvania Governer Ed Rendell. You know how it is for guys like us. Just another weekend shaking hands and kissing babies. It was to late for me to jump a Metroliner to Philadelphia by the time I was done at the office Friday night. So I maxed out on a few…

That’s me sorting through resumes. I have four positions to fill at The MTV. Like, soon. Work is crazy. I lobbied long and hard for my new title, but couldn’t have begun to imagine how different my life would be. As if a laptop, cell phone, digital camera, and iPod weren’t enough for one messenger…

It’s good to get out. Tonight was a fairly major aboration. I didn’t work late. I didn’t rehearse with any of my bands. I didn’t watch some art house film on DVD. I went out. To the New York Public Library. To see a bunch of writers perform. Sounds anomalous, right? Writers? Performing? The Moth…