One of my all time favorite sitcoms was "The Larry Sanders Show" with Garry Shandling.  Larry's sidekick was a guy named Hank Kingsley (Hey Now!!) and he had a monthly newsletter that he would send to "Hanks Honeys" his fan club.  It was one of those goofy lists of mindless thoughts that he would rattle of to his devoted assistant.  An example would be "Whatever happened to that sexy mama from the Cowsills?  I loved the way we shook that tight min-skirt".  It looses something in the translation,  but it was hilarious.  Sooo here's my tribute to Hank Kingsley,  "Idle Mind,  Idle Thoughts...

  I've been keeping a secret of my new weekend job,  boxing with a kangaroo down in Mexico - 50,000 pesos a fight (about $500 U.S),  plus expenses.  Unfortunately Pepe the Mexican Boxing Kangaroo got me with a solid right this past weekend at a fight in Hermosillo,  and you can see the results above. 

I wrote recently about my years with Up With People, something of which I'm quite proud.  30 years later,  I'm still a "fan" and I'm very excited about their big plans for the cast this year.  A Cast of 68 young people were feature on this years "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade".   I forgot to capture it on my own,  but here's a clip from Youtube (sorry about the lousy kinescope capture,  but it's the only I could find.

By the way,  there will also be a cast opening this years Tournament of Roses Parade.  So excited to see my "alma mater" if you will regaining some of it's fame.

Josh Groban has maybe the most beautiful male "pop" voice on earth - he literally brings me to tears.  Who knew that he was also a fellow drummer and not a bad one at that?  I was skeptical before I saw this video,  there have been so many "celebrities" who also thought that they could play the drums,  who have embarassed themselves by insisting on playing in movies or on TV, and it kind of pisses me off when I see it.  I guess there's an assumption that it's easy to play the drums well (I can't imagine some celebrity buying say a piano,  and then insisting on playing with the Tonight Show band six months later).  Anyway here's Josh Groban playing a mean rock groove...



I mentioned a few months ago that I'm engaged to Broadway, film and TV star Kristin Chenoweth (again, I've got the restraining order to prove it).  She is currently on my must-Tivo short list of TV shows,  the incredibly strange and wonderful "Pushing Daisies".  If you haven't seen it yet,  you must - you've never seen anything quite like it,  I guarantee.  It also feature Ellen Greene,  who was so wonderful as Audrey years ago in the film version (and also the original Broadway Cast) of "Little Shop of Horrors".  Too difficult to explain,  but the most innovative TV show in years.  SEE IT!!

Thanksgiving was at my house this year,  and it was so wonderful to get most of the Anderson clan together.  It's been a "challenging" couple of years for the Andersons,  but I'm so blessed to have such a wonderful loving family.  A Perfect Mother (and loving "Grandma") two wonderful brothers,  Sisters in laws that I adore,  the world finest,  smartest,  most beautiful nieces,  and of course the two bestest daughters a father could have. 

OK,  about that black eye - I know I had you going with that whole boxing thing (after all,  I'm often thought of as the white Iron Mike),  but that was a little white lie.  I was in Mexico last weekend,  took Felicia and "Grandma" down to get our South of the Border fix,  but other than a 2 hour wait to get back in the good old USA it was pretty uneventful for us seasoned Mexicophiles.  I actually took a spill in the parking lot of the local grocery store,  and got to take a ride in an ambulance to the new Thompson Peak North Scottsdale Hospital ER (I begged them to let me run the siren,  but noooo).  Nothing serious,  but 4 stitches later,  I have a world class shiner.  At least it's a great conversation piece.