Haha, yes. Way back during the filming of Season 3 of Breaking Bad, I was able to visit the set for about a week (and even ended up as an extra in a scene! amazing experience), and the guys who play the cousins were there. I got to hang with them for a good chunk of a couple of the shooting days, and they are lovely.

Which is incredible, because in person, they’re two of the nicest guys!

Good to Vince still has the best instincts for when great characters he’s created grow beyond his original imagination of them. I just love that about him. (Among many other things.)

I posted about this in reply to someone else already, but he’s great and it bears repeating: the nearly 3 hour freestyle jazz jam session I witnessed him give at one of my favorite LA venues last year was incredible. Can’t wait to see him again.

I’m hoping I can see him again when he plays LA again next month, just before my birthday! I caught him last year at one of my favorite small, intimate venues in town, and it was basically him + an amazing band just freestyle jamming incredible jazz with no breaks for nearly 3 hours. Incredible stuff.

HOO BOY, CONGRATS.

I honestly dream of someday living somewhere with a big enough closet to be able to do this. (Also, y’know, the money to do it.) Well done you!

A solid list, but you’re kind of... skipping over the entire genre of videos meant to showcase dancing? As in, pretty much all the output by both Michael and Janet Jackson, among plenty of others... I feel like that deserves its own category, since where the dancing is going on is almost always almost entirely…

Why is this not part of my life story, dammit. That’s awesome.

I can’t say I’ve ever run into one that comes close to such a description in LA (or in NY, for that matter), but... okay? YMMV indeed.

I know! I only ever hung onto one pair (though I danced in several, back in my Latin ballroom days), but the problem with those felt/suede bottoms is, though they’re obviously ideal for making turns on linoleum/tile/wood/whatever dance floor, they’re not meant for walking on concrete or asphalt, or basically any other…

Can’t agree, but we obviously live in very different book markets, based on your comments.

Also, the shoulder is a thoroughfare for emergency vehicles and stopping on it is incredibly unsafe, especially if you get out of the car.

All of this is spot-on, except...

Oh, I’m sure. The other indie publisher I know best/work with the most doesn’t sell to Amazon at all; if any of their titles show up there, it’s through the occasional third party reseller, or nothing. We do the same.

Bullshit.

THANK YOU.

All that to say, while I have a negative view of B&N, it has nothing to do with the people working there (well, not as a group, some individuals though...) It’s more that the corporate mandates for how the stores are planned end up making the stores feel cold and impersonal.

They look alike and are equally insufferable, so that’s understandable!