Job

MNT is hiring a music editor. Look here. It's kind of a difficult job.

I was sitting in the part of a nightclub that's supposed to look like the interior of an airplane, drinking to Depeche Mode, when a drag queen asked me to ghostwrite his/her memoirs. I gave him/her a business card.

Yesterday I went on a little hike in the Everglades. There were piles of alligators everywhere, and ibis, great blue herons, cormorants, egrets, cranes... teeming is an understatement. My favorite bird is the anhinga. When it dives, its tail fans out under the water. Very pretty.

My boot camp story.

Learn Portuguese with Arnold

Carnival in Rio with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rebecca sent me this. The best words to describe this are Arnold's own: "I can totally understand why Brazil is devoted to my favorite body part: the ass."

So

New Year's Eve was a surfeit of surf and turf (claws, fire-roasted animals, roe, tails, shells.) Snoop Dogg and Ludacris performed. Billy Joel stood in a corner and smoked cigarettes. The go-go dancers wore wings and the waiters dressed like tennis pros, but carried Dom Perignon instead of rackets.

Jaime Foxx shook my hand. He was covered in distracting surfaces (mirrored sunglasses, diamond earrings, polka-dotted shirt.) He tilted his head in a way that made him look like an Oscar-winning blind man for real. He said, "2006 is going to be a very good year. An excellent year."

I said: "Yeah, man." Then he was gone.