Strangely, I didn't hear about your talk -- even though my wife and I get notices from the Center, since we're helping to coordinate the LA Chapter of the Nathan Hale Society. Otherwise, we would have gone and said hello.

Next time you're in town, and you have some free time, let us know so we can throw you a bash, like we did for David Adesnik and Joe Katzman!

Dan, name one Star Trek episode from any of the series, that featured waterbeds in any configuration.

Zathras: It wasn't the waterbeds per se that evoked Star Trek -- it was the "space pods" that encased them. They looked like they'd been lifted from "Mudd's Women"

Ever read the white-paper on the "Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer" strategy for handling WMD proliferation? If was way-cool!

As an 'SC alum I'd like to hear some details on the talk/your impressions of the IR department at USC

Here are my brushes with celebrity. Celebrities can all go and fsck off as far as I'm concerned.

It's too bad you gave no advance notice. If you had, I would have suggested a field trip to Koreatown to see for yourself whether Samuel Huntington is wrong or not. A stroll down Broadway in "the" downtown, a leisurely nighttime traipse down Alvarado and through MacArthur Park, perhaps a side trip one mile south, west, or east of USC.

Odd, Dan, that you should come back just as we hear about an 80 some-odd car pleup on the 15 through Cajon. Apparently, Fog was the problem.
I've driven though that stretch, (rail fanning) a few times and can well understand the problem.. and I hear it was equally bad over at Tehatchapi this morning, as far as the fog went.

Glad you liked it, I rather enjoyed my visit.
LA's an interesting place, so long as someone else is paying the freight; Which is perhaps why leftists predominate, there. In my case, as with yours apparently, my employer paid my way.

Re: gossip

I hope you at least tip the waiters well.

Thanks for being a good sport, Daniel. Let's go fishing sometime.

Okay, I admit it - I'm a diehard fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Willow and Spike are my favorite characters. Angelus when he get's let out of the bottle isn't bad. I'm hoping Whedon will come out with a Willow based chronicles on the magic side of things. Be a nice parallel story arc to the slayerettes.

Nicholas Brendon was great on Buffy. I hope he makes buckets of money from residuals. Congratulations on the autograph.

It's very pleasant to find wise people here.
Good job, Michael!
Paul