October 27, 2007

• Hollywood VIPs & International Visits During the Blaze

  

  
  Seth and I had VIP tickets to see “Real Time with Bill Maher” tonight.  The show airs live at 11:00 PM on HBO.  Lately I haven’t been 100% thrilled with some of his politics, but he usually makes me laugh and his show usually sparks some good discussions. 

  Because of what happened last week we were told that security would be extra tight.  This turned out to be a joke.  We drove right into the gate at CBS Television City without even giving our names or showing ID.  However, when I tried to smuggle my cell phone in to take some pictures, the trouble began.  As I went through the metal detector, I told them that I was a doctor, and that I needed my cell phone to text medical instructions to the hospital.  LOL.  They argued with me and called more security.  When they insisted that I could not bring my cell phone in, I stated that if my patients died, it would be on their conscience.    Oh, well, I tried.  So the only pics I got were these lame ones outside the studio in the dark with my mobile.

  

  
  

   

  The show was pretty good tonight.  The guest were:  former presidential candidate and Four Star General Wesley Clark, tennis great Martina Navratilova, conservative gay blogger Andrew Sullivan, esteemed journalist Sir David Frost and Republican Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.

  

  
  The topics the panel discussed tonight were: 
  

  • The California wildfires and the environment
  • Burqas (which contained an uncomfortable burqa fashion show, and Wesley Clark defending women who wear them)
    
  • Gay mania & marriage (Question to the Republican candidates:  If you knew you could prevent a terrorist attack, would you have sex with a man? And, if you knew a fetus would become Osama bin Laden, would you abort it?)
  • Richard Nixon’s administration
  • Hillary demonization
  • Arnold for president?  (Wesley Clark was definitely against repealing the Constitutional Amendment that would allow a foreign born person to become president.  I have to agree with him.  He’s really gunning for Hillary.  It made me think that he might be a potential Vice Presidential candidate for her.)
    

  Anyway, if you want to see a clip from the show, click here.

  

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  It’s amazing how a disaster can draw people to your website.  I’ve gotten hundreds of hits the last day or two, presumably because of the fires.  These are just from the last couple of days:
  
  

  

  
  I haven’t had this many visitors to my website since I wrote about Sabine’s experience during the Virginia Tech tragedy.

  I even had a hit from someplace called:

  
  

  Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

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  10/27/2007 12:37 AM

  
  Speaking of the fires, this is hopefully my last post for a while about wildfires, but I had to share these photos I got from Jennifer yesterday.  They were taken from the exact spot where I took my photos the day before, just after the fire had been put out.  If you look at these photos, and compare them to my previous entry, you can see exactly how the fire destroyed that area.  Amazing!
  

  

  

  

  
  Nothing like a Coors Light while watching your house burn down!

  

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