Hot Date

So I went and bought condoms tonight--two boxes, thank you, just in case--and I wanted so bad to buy a Lottery ticket too and then tell the 7-11 clerk, "Because I'm feeling lucky." But I didn't have the balls.

Buddy Blue

This is me with my friend Buddy Siegal/Buddy Blue, smoking outside our old offices in Costa Mesa when Buddy was the Weekly's music editor. You could find us there a lot.
Buddy died this week. He was 48. A memorial service will be held Friday at noon, in Harry Griffen Park, in La Mesa.