If you're familiar with comedienne Chelsea Handler, you might know of her #1 rated show on the E! Channel.  Yesterday, Claudio, Ryan, Guilherme and I went to a taping of her show, Chelsea Lately. We all love the show, but we were a bit disappointed by the whole experience. First of all, the security was a nightmare. I think it's easier to get into a White House State Dinner! The security guards were rude and power hungry and ...basically ridiculous. They manhandled us like we were going to federal prison!  Despite the fact that they made me remove my belt (I almost broke into a rendition of "Pants on the Ground"), I was STILL able to sneak my camera inside. What morons. Once we got inside, the guy who was in charge of warming up the audience was a complete tool and very annoying. Throughout the entire show he was waving his arms around like a banshee and really ruining the whole experience. He also made it very difficult for me to take any good photos. LOL. I still managed to sneak a few in though by holding the camera up discreetly. (In my inflated head, that's what my public wants!) When Chelsea came to our row to sign autographs during a commercial break, I got a little cocky and got caught taking a picture. After the next break they escorted me out of the show (it was over anyway, there was only 1 minute left). When I got to the lobby, dumbfuck security guard #2, asked for my FILM!! I laughingly asked him if he knew what century it was and turned around and walked out the door. He started to follow me, but I pretended to talk on my phone (which I also brought in) and he gave up. Great security Chelsea! What a way to ruin a show!  Such drama for a camera.  Sheesh!!  Every time I watch the show now, I'm going to think of those poor saps in the audience having to endure rude security guards and an annoying warm up act. Oh well, just another day in Lala Land!

  
A week of rare stormy weather was capped off by a beautiful sunny weekend full of friends, flowers and food (porn).  Picasa tells me I took 224 photos this week.  Here are a few of them:

The recent revelations about Sarah Palin in the book "Game Change" have left me giddy and completely unbothered by her recent appointment as Fox News' newest pinhead.  Let's face it, even McCain's own campaign had doubts that someone as vapid and crazy ("It was God's plan...") as Caribou Barbie should ever hold the highest office in the land and even hatched a plan to give her a mostly ceremonial role should they win.  So keep prattling on Sarah...and show us all how dangerous, delusional and doltish you really are!  To wit:

"In the days leading up to an interview with ABC News' Charlie Gibson, aides were worried with Ms. Palin's grasp of facts. She couldn't explain why North and South Korea were separate nations and she did not know what the Federal Reserve did. She also said she believed Saddam Hussein attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001."

Where'd they find her? Well, on the Internet, as it happens. "McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, spotted Sarah Palin while searching the Internet for possible female vice presidential candidates." More from CBS News:

"Her foreign policy tutors are literally taking her through, 'This is World War I, this is World War II, this is the Korean War. This is the how the Cold War worked.' Steve Schmidt had gone to them and said, 'She knows nothing,'" Heilemann told Cooper. "A week later, after the convention was over, she still didn't really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea. She was still regularly saying that Saddam Hussein had been behind 9/11. And, literally, the next day her son was about to ship off to Iraq. And when they asked her who her son was going to fight, she couldn't explain that.""

Finally, a week of spectacular weather and sunsets, was capped off at the Getty Museum over the weekend, where Ryan, Lorenzo, Adam and I enjoyed a sunset for the ages after coming out of the Rembrandt exhibit.  Take a look at the photos and video: