This is not a blog!
Repeat...this is not a blog. Now that I got your attention, be sure to check in regularly with my new "dot column." This writer has kept his mouth shut for six years. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Stay tuned.
View ArticleCOMEBACK, KID
GOD GRANTED ME a 47th birthday today. And that's eight years longer than I ever expected from the guy.It wasn't too long ago that I thought the 2.7 miles of sex, drugs and rock & roll that is...
View ArticleBenza interview on Grub Street
Grub Street did a really great job interviewing me for this story. Check it out and let me know what you think.http://www.grubstreet.ca/articles/interviews/ajb/ajbenza.htmSo my loyal followers...what's...
View ArticleHugh Hefner Is Dead To Me
The other night I find myself watching quite possibly the worst, tasteless, classless reality show on television. And that's saying something. I speak, of course, of "Kendra," the latest in a long,...
View ArticlePoor, Poor Me
There I was yesterday, pissed off that I had to drive all the way from Burbank to West Los Angeles for a TV show pitch and then had to turn around and sit down with Taylor Dane by 12:30 so we could...
View ArticlePOP GOES THE WEASEL
I wasn't kind to Michael Jackson in the 1990's.Mostly because I knew too much about Michael Jackson in the 1990's, from where I sat as a columnist for the NY Daily News. What especially disturbed me...
View ArticleThe Opera House
Damn. This column wasn't easy for me to write. And that's part of my problem - well, any writer's problem. It's hardest most to write what's closest to you. And what's closer to any of us than the old...
View ArticleYOU ARE THERE!
Boy you couldn't beat that lifelong newsman Walter Cronkite to deliver you the truth when it counted most, right? And you especially knew the standards in which he carried out his private life had to...
View ArticleLove On The Rox
My 5-year-old daughter, Roxy, starts Kindergarten in less than a week. For she, it is the start of a wondrous, fun-filled journey where anxiety and adventure battle for space along with the shiny red...
View ArticleGo, Army!
Outside of California's Hollywood elite, no one knew who the fuck Army Archerd was. Let's be real. They might've recognized the name or maybe even remarkably recalled that he spent 100 years as the...
View ArticleA FLOP, A TURN and a RIVER of SHIT
I ask forgiveness for those of you who know not where our little poker show aired. Though it wasn't too hard to find for the real poker fan out there - and in my day I've met hundreds of them.See, I...
View ArticleSaving All My Blow For You
There is no rulebook on how to love an addict. There is no fundamentally sound way – forget what Dr. Phil or Dr. Drew says – on how to adequately handle a person who’d rather curl up to their drugs...
View ArticleThe Old Angelina
All this talk about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie finally getting hitched after six kids and seven years got me to thinking about the days when I kinda, sorta ran in a similar circle with the wild...
View ArticleWorld's Greatest Voff
I get a kick out of anyone or anybody has made it their point to denounce or question NBC’s decision to make Howard Stern a judge on “America’s Got Talent.” I say I get a kick out of them, but really...
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