I just got a new pin for my Robert Kennedy for President (1968) collection that I call "Bobby Pins".


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Went to a party celebrating Pattie Boyd's (both George Harrison and Eric Clapton's wife) new book of photographs.


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I'm making a new solo record (as well as a new Red Button album).




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I've just received word that The Beatles longtime, legendary recording engineer, Norman "Hurricane" Smith, passed away early morning today. He was 85.



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I'm making a book in Flash called "VanTongerloo's Dream" about a Victorian Hippopotamus and his sidekick, Pearshapes (a juggler) and how they romp through time. I'm working with a fabulous flash designer named Heather Wagner.

Heather and me in NYC in 2002

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Last night I went to a party with my wife Jody at Lia Vollack's house.
I met a girl named Liza Richardson. She's a DJ on the L.A. radio
station, KCRW.

I found a diary I kept in 1971, when I was 11 (5th grade). It's amazing.
I remember almost all the events that I describe in it -- and they pretty much jibe with my recollection.

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I got a haircut today at Neil George Hair Salon. Alyssa cut my hair.

Congratulations to the White Sox. They earned it playing steady, by the book, baseball. It was refreshing to watch them let their pitchers complete games. That's baseball! More relievers, means more stoppages. Baseball is best when it moves along.

I love this time of year in baseball, as many teams are trying to make the playoffs. I'm rooting hard for the Yankees though they must be asking themselves, "where did the Cleveland Indians come from?"

i thought paul was really awesome today. i was in a room of people who know i'm their "Beatles-crazed" friend.

I went into my 10-year-old son julian's class (4th grade) to teach them 'how to write a song. It was tremendous. I told them that the only rules are that there are no rules. wow, they thought, no rules!

I think he should be able to keep the ball. Did the Angels ask their centerfielder Darin Erstad for the ball he caught to end the 2002 world series? Did the Yankees demand that third baseman Charlie Hayes return the final out of the '96 world series? No. And they shouldn't have.

A few years ago, Newsweek magazine did an all-time greatest books list. The children's book The Little Engine That Could came in 7th. Newsweek, correctly, said this about the book:

The average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches? in the old days of baseball (till the mid-1920s), they used one ball for the entire game, retrieving foul balls and home runs from the stands when necessary. the balls themselves were quite dark at the end of a game as the pitchers put dirt on them to give them more of a grip.