Happy 5th of July!!!

Happy Birthday Pops!!!
One the smoothest guys on earth was born today. He taught me most everything I know and never lost his temper. Ok, maybe twice on the temper thing. Once when someone hit our new car at a stoplight, just hours after we picked it up and once when I was 5 or 6 years old lighting candles in my bedroom just after we had moved into the then new house (honestly, what teacher in their right mind lets kids make candles in kindergarten).
Dad has always been good for a joke, has a ready smile and supported me in all my endeavors. He has the patience of Job, taught me how to drive and what a good person should be and why that is important. He taught me to judge a person on their actions and not what they look like. He taught me not to do a "Half assed job :) " you do the whole thing and do it right. He taught me how to be teased and to tease. He teaches me everyday to enjoy life. He hardly ever complains, which in light of events the past few years is huge, he always finds a way to make things funny
I am so glad he's my dad and not yours. Happy Birthday Pops, I love you!


Girls on film... 2 minutes later... girls on film - DD

I am writing this as I watch the Duran Duran Greatest hits DVD. They really tried to be avant garde with some of their videos. It's cool to look the vids from back then and see why I dug the 80's so much. The DVD contains a few uncensored videos they did back in the day. One of which is Girls on Film. Now I know why it was banned from MTV. Lots O'nakedness, mud wrestling and suggestive scenes. I don't how I would have handled it as a teenager. Probably the same way I did tonight, giggling a lot. Did someone say boobies.? hee hee


If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere.... Imagine the Chairman of the Board singing that line

New York was pretty cool. I got way too little sleep and got to hang around a movie shoot. I was really proud of Vic and what he does. He works hard and has his $h!t together. I was very very impressed.
The planes ride home was eventful. I was driven to the airport from the set Mercedes Benz style, which was pretty cool. I got to the airport early because I was not sure how long the drive from Harlem to JFK would be in rush hour traffic (Mr paranoid) so I took precautions. Turns out I could have probably walked to the airport and still made my plane. It was delayed, but I getting ahead of myself. I need to tell you the story behind "Damn yo boots smell!!" George Clinton once said "We want the funk! Give us that funk!" He did not have this man's funky nasty stinky sewer boots in mind. If you haven't taken a plane in a while I will explain something to you. When you are going to your boarding gate, you have to pass through security, To pass through security you have to take your shoes off. My man took his boots off and sent them through the machine. I have not smelled anything that close to death since drove my old Chevy Citation behind a garbage truck with no AC on a hot humid summer day in very slow traffic. It's so bad that after a while you begin to taste it.
It was so bad that when my boots came of the belt I said to the Homeland security folks that it's not my boots, mine are brand new. I thought they were going to hit an alarm and say we had all been poisoned like some bad replay of 24 (one of my fave TV shows, by the way I finally finished this season over the 4th and it rocked). If they locked you in a room with those boots you would tell Jack Bauer where Hoffa was buried and about the time you ate peanuts out of the bin at the grocery store. They didn't do that but they did however spray the whole area with air freshener (I am not joking). It was so bad it followed me up the hallway to the gates. Please my brotha if you read this: WASH YOUR STINKIN FEET AND PUT SOME POWDER IN THOSE BOOTS!! or better yet burn them before they ban you from the plane.
Oh yeah, and some guy had a seizure 45 minutes into the flight, no not from the smell. They called for a doc or a nurse and there were a couple on board. They took care of him and he was fine. I was a little nervous at first when they pulled out the oxygen tank and the defib, but when I found out it was a seizure, I relaxed. That's all for tonight.