Paul Johnson. Football coach, Georgia Tech. Overheard saying to partner: I don't care how these shorts make my knees look, they're comfortable!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Pieter L. deHaseth. Received Ph.D. in experimental pathology from Harvard (me too!); marriage was reported in The New York Times Style Section (8/24), today's most reliable chronicler of the self-obsessed.
Lang Lang. Musician. Piano player. Member of wait staff at vegan restaurant in North Adams, Mass.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Richard Price. Novelist, screenwriter and television writer/producer of the greatest show no one could follow and no one watched. "Honey, you look beautiful in that pants suit."
Bruce Jenner. The Michael Phelps of men who look like old lesbians.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican, South Carolina. A regular every Wednesday night for karaoke at The Alley in Columbia. (This, by the way, is the senator's official portrait.)
David Byrne. Scottish born musician, actor, producer, weird person. One of Dana Toress's three full time masseuses.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Paul Weller. English musician whose name I've heard throughout the years, but I have no idea what he's done. Seen here hoisting trophy from 2004 second place finish in the Iditarod.
Bob Costas. Sports journalist who can turn an interview with any athlete, regardless of stature, into a story about himself--which reminds me of the time I first met the Mick...
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Tim Winton. Australian novelist. Co-owner with life partner of Perth landscape business, "Land's Edging and Tree Pruning."