Turning Forty

Turning Forty

Being 40 doesn't feel especially old. When you are: Discovering strippers, working at internet companies. Emptying parents' antique-filled house, staying with the millionaire Aunt. Partying on Mulholland, visiting the Four Seasons, looking at lingerie photos Going on dates with strippers Trying to stay alive in the e-commerce world. Building a ten-foot sculpture of a great white shark Turning Forty, a dramatic account written over one year of hanging out and drinking coffee at a formerly legendary cafe, the purple-lit Bourgeois Pig in Hollywood. The inside story of life and style of a displaced New Yorker. Keen views at a Hollywood Cafe from the author as he turns forty. A planetary and space scientist sits in a purple-lit café, observing human nature. A window of sites, strange and unique. There is an Oprah interview with details. A visit to the Malibu Colony. Master's degree in Marriage and Family Counseling from Antioch University. Swimming in the Hunter S. Thompson pool Dating a Hollywood stripper. Then, after getting fired from a daytime TV show, He decides to build a shark. This could be seen as a metaphor for life. Some people might say madness--but no, just an artist having fun—stories from the clinic. One of the therapists was locked in the room. Cleaning an antique-infested apartment in Queens