Happy Annivarsary, BK and HHW!
BK, may not remember it, but he and I met briefly at our favourite bookstore, Mystery & Imagination (aka Bookfellows), when it was still on Broadway before it moved to Brand. We were introduced by the store owner and I told him that I was a fan of his Varese recordings.
Years later, I'm in the store (now moved to Brand) on a Saturday afternoon and BK is reading from the first two Kritzer books. Very funny. After the reading, I had some of the proffered ham and cheese chunks (and a very good chocolate cake) washing it down with the ubiquitious Diet Coke, bought the two books, had Bruce sign them, and we proceeded to bullshit, the conversation getting more animated as the "do" wound down. We found out we had a lot in common and liked a lot of the same stuff.
He suggested I would be a ripe subject for an unseemingly interview. Being the PR whore I am, I readily agreed. We exchanged info. I went to the site to check out other interviews and would read his notes and listen to the Donald's radio show.
Lo and behold, a few days later I got Bruce's very amusing questions which I tried to answer in the same attitude and style and subsequently wound up with the interview of mine I enjoy the most. I told him to feel free to cut it; but he loved it as is and published the whole thing. Like elmore, my first serious forays onto the message board were to see if there was any reaction to the interview and then I started responding to some posts and the rest...as they say...is history.
Shortly after the interview, BK suggested we go to dinner and I and The Lovely Wife met him at the first of what has become many dinners at Musso and Frank's and elsewhere where we laugh and laugh until we think we can laugh no more.
I dance the hora, chomp a ham and cheese chunk, and toast you with Diet Coke, ole chum!
