“You had a Diet Coke all ready for me? Long straw and everything?”

“Yes, I saw you pull up and got your usual!”

“Wow…that is both very cool and totally sad!”

“But hey…you could write about it on your blog!”

“You know I have a blog?”

blink, blink, blinkity-blink…

“Yeeah…I saw you in the paper awhile back and recognized you and I’ve pretty much read it every day since. I’m a fan!”

“Uhhh….WOW.”

“Are you ok with that?”

“No, no it’s fine. It’s always just a bit humbling and mortifying to meet someone who has possibly read all about my Brazilian wax online, you know?”

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And now for Part 2  of my press junket from “Despicable Me”…. (Read Part 1 HERE)

A junket (according to Wikipedia) is “where entertainment journalists are invited to see a movie and interview the stars of the movie before the movie’s release”.

And that is pretty much exactly what I did.

I sat with the vocal talent for “Despicable Me” (Opening July 9th) with 9 other bloggers at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills for approximately 20 minutes and we laughed and talked and questioned and grinned our heads off.

It was grand.

Our first two interviews were with Miranda Cosgrove and Jason Segel.

Click here to continue reading…

During a press junket for Despicable Me, I got to sit down with 9 other talented bloggers at a blogging round table at The Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel and interview lead vocal talent that included Miranda Cosgrove, Jason Segel, Steve Carell, and Julie Andrews.

Before the junket,  I took my boys to see a special screening of this wickedly fun-filled movie by Universal Studios that opens July 9th.

To read more click here…

I woke up and went to my computer to do a quick post and was greeted by a flood of emails and DM’s that my blog was gone and instead showed a WordPress Install page.

Great.

And such a fitting topper to the previous 24-hour-period in which:

My BRAND NEW Nexus one totally died completely on me.

I had icky Twitter drama. Long story short: You make a (juvenile) issue public that hurts and embarrasses well-meaning people? It’s out there for opinion. Don’t get pissy if you throw a public fit (repeatedly) and people (very firmly) express a contradictory opinion to you.

My father told me the song he wanted me to sing at his funeral as he and my mother are now planning it after his cardiology appointment. (He has serious malfunction in the bottom of his heart. This is bad. We’ll know in a couple of weeks how serious it is and if anything can be done.)

My mother called during my 4th of July BBQ to tell me one of my favorite uncles passed away. He lived a kick ass life and he was missing my aunt, who I found out had passed away during the same party 3 years ago. (If it happens again, I may just say we’re done with that party and just buy a pack of sparklers and buy some KFC and eat it on the porch, dudes.)

Then I woke up to my totally borked blog.

Nice theme to the day, huh?

I kind of want to give the universe a robust and choreographed series of hand movements that included several salutes with my middle finger.

Thankfully, the home page of my blog is now visible and I can access WordPress. Though all the pages (Archives, About Me, ect.) are still borked and showing 404 errors. Have no idea why.

But hey, I will take ANY amount of good news today.

Because I feel a bit like trodden-on ick right now.

:’(

(Comments off for this one. It’s a holiday weekend…go enjoy yourselves, people!)