To think twenty-some years ago the whole snakes on a plane idea was explored on-screen for only fifteen seconds when it could have been a full two-hour feature. Nazis, buried treasure, and the supernatural just cluttered the concept really.

Last summer I was on a talk show I’d never heard of on a channel no one gets, QTN. Watch me try to explain my Obscene Interiors book while boobs float in the frame behind me.

Five years ago I appeared on “The Daily Show with John Stewart” in a segment inspired by my Obscene Interiors.

If the youtube link is down the video is also here.

It’s a sad thing we Americans learn our geography via war coverage, instead
of, say, hyperbolic promotional theme park videos.

“Although it is a long and costly war, the number of soldiers increases instead of decreasing. So let’s take part in the war of development together, and let our victims be poverty, ignorance and backwardness.”

-Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, crown prince of Dubai speaking about Dubailand, the new $5 billion entertainment development under construction in his country.

He’s funny. I like how he gets you thinking he’s talking about jihad or something. Nope. When he says “radical extremism” he means a new water slide.

See, Dubai, part of the United Arab Emirates (they border the Persian gulf opposite Iran) is bursting with nifty stuff, like those man-made islands in the shape of countries, and other islands that look like palm trees, and that neat building that looks like a sail. And soon they’ll have dinosaurs and roller coasters too. I just wanna know when I start work on it.

Found at a store called Turtle in Santa Monica.

This was on Sunday. See the me (in the blue shirt) and some other fellows dance to Mates of State’s "All in your Head."