An 18-oz Mesquite-grilled Bone-in Cowboy Steak; Lobster, Crayfish + Excess

Filet Mignon with Bernaise Sauce and Crabmeat; Shrimp and Grits

My Recent Trip Through the South...or...Why I'm Fat...a pictorial essay by Me

My next to last trip was through Mississippi and Louisiana, bastions of fat people eating the food that made them that way. And now I'm one of them.  Above you see a Waffle House menu and the end result of perusing it: biscuits and gravy. Not as good as yours, Mom, but that didn't stop me from glomping them down without regard for health or appearance.  And the litany begins...

Glenside, PA

The tragedy of this, of course, is that it's NOT A wig....

Glenside, PA

Some theatres seem less welcoming than others...

Why we Love the Count Basie...

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Some places don't even give us water. It's a movie, Mom, click the arrow!

Janet and the ceiling of the Count Basie Theatre

Red Bank, NJ You have to wonder what sort of hideous trauma or phobia led to the draconian regulations governing left turns statewide.

Backstage, Ruritan Community College Theatre

Howard sets up harmonies onstage while Andy sets up wigs backstage during sound check.

...where finally, I can go back to sleep.

Zzzzzzzzzzloveyouguyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Then we check into the basically charming Hotel Sierra, in Branchburg

A brief 45-minute jaunt across the wilds of New Jersey, under the watchful and threatening eyes of thousands of evil, silent birds....

Next, a brief train ride to Hertz...

That's Nancy Dolliver, who just found out there's a suspicious lump in her lung. I was just offering to try and massage it away, but apparently she's using 'doctors' for that kind of thing.

Then we land in Newark...

...next, we board a smallish jet

My seat is a window AND an aisle!

We start the day in a cab to National Airport...

Camera went off in the plane, unbeknownst to me....

Curious effect. I don't think that's me at all...

Me as Mark Sanford

I'm about to go on in Los Angeles to sing "Don't Cry, I'm in Argentina" as your beloved(?) Governor. It was a hit...it usually is. Clearly, I have yet to properly seat the wig on my head. I hope.  Photo courtesy Jon Bell. Love y'all!

When I got home...

...Katie and Alex had left a spooky trio out on the balcony. I have to figure out how to 'present' them on the balcony so they can be seen for miles!

LAX Redux

It seems like they've been refurbishing this space-age 'The Future of Tomorrow as Seen Through the Eyes of Yesteryear!' style restaurant forever. Who has time to go to an off-site eatery at LAX?

The Hotel Angeleno

Formerly, a Holiday Inn. Its twin dwells in Long Beach or Torrance, I can't remember which, thank God...

University of Judaism, Bel Air, CA

Star treatment, baby!

The Hotel Angeleno...and Rt. 405...

It's hard to make LAX look mystical...

...but I think I succeeded.

Scenes from New Orleans

Rich and I had lunch in the French Quarter before we hit the airport

Sound check, Columbia Theatre, Hammond, LA