Fer-De-Lance, Rex Stout

Nero Wolfe is asked to look into the disappearance of a man. But before the investigation gets very far, the man is found dead. The death of a rich guy on a golf course seems to tie in with the death of the man Wolfe was to look for.

About halfway through the book I said, "Holy shit!"

Archie seems to have a thing for milk in this one, though..

Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and all the Rest of My Hollywood Friends; John Leguizamo

This book is great. I've seen the HBO versions of Leguizamo's one-man shows, and the writing is a lot like that style. So it's funny and as real as he felt he could make it.

I've been a fan of John Leguizamo since way before the car hit me, and I've seen him in a lot of crappy movies. It was kind of neat to get his take on them.

Excerpts:
We'd be in rehearsal, and I'd have a line like, "This is the woman, but not this the man."

Only it's come out, "This is the woman, but that ain't the guy, yo."

The whole cast would gasp. The great F. Murray Abraham would cover his ears and run from the stage.

I'd be like, "What? What I say?"

The director would rub his face. "John, Please say the line the way the Bard wrote it."

And I'd go, "Bart? His name was Bart Shakespeare?"

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I had trouble being a Catholic because God is perfect and we're not. I sin all the time, and He never does anything wrong. and no matter what He does, we have to like Him anyway. Or be hurled into hell forever and ever amen. I always felt rejected by the church. Now I realize it was because I just wasn't cute enough for the priests.