* Country Roads Magazine: The Loose Cannon – Jeremy Alford writes an insightful piece about our very own Greg “Shifty Suspect Device” Peters.
* Friend and features writer for the Chicago Sun Times group, Mike Danahy, visited with us last weekend and shares his experience on our food, food, leather, costumes, food and more food.
[Mike’s post reminded me that he and I ran into Vito Spatafore from The Sopranos in front of Crescent City Cigar Shop on Orleans Avenue. Driving home from the Quarter, I turned from Royal onto Orleans, when Mike pointed to a large dude text-messaging on his cellphone outside the cigar shop and said, “That’s Vito from The Sopranos. I interviewed him for the paper last year.” “No way that’s him,” I replied. Mike bet me $5 that that was indeed the guy who played the gay former mob boss. So, I circled the block, rolled my window down and asked, “Excuse me, but did you play Vito on The Sopranos?” The guy looked up at me with a bothered look and I almost thought my bravado had written a check that my behind couldn’t cash when he took one look at Mike, recognized him and said, “Yeah, I’m Joe Gannascoli!” and came over to shake my hand. Apparently, he was in town on some celebrity cigar marketing gig. Pleasant man, smiled a lot, smelled of nice cologne and wished me a wonderful day. That was a quick five bucks for Mike.]
* To prove that not all of my friends are bald-headed writers with goatees, I present you with the long-haired, lovely and talented Dr. Krupali Tejura who was profiled by her local paper as the home girl done good. Krupali was also featured on NPR’s My Cancer with Leroy Sievers and participated in the subsequent taping of the Discovery show Living With Cancer where she got to hang out with her cancer-survivor heroes, Elizabeth Edwards, Ted Koppel and Lance Armstrong. Rock on, girl!
I have such cool friends.
