darlings
quelle delicious evening!
our most Excellent friend Eric Shaw Quinn picked us up in a convertible (Terribly Tinseltown) and we drove down Hollywood Boulevard to have supper at Musso and Franks (since 1919).
we went to Musso and Franks (since 1919) because we were celebrating the arrival of the first part of the Advance (such a lovely word) for the book.
eric was the perfect Companion to celebrate such abundance as he is also an Author (and a New York Times Best-selling Author at that) and so we talked a lot about characters-that-take-over-the-plot and curious feats of imagination and the sheer grind of writing-everyday (but also how delicious it is to live in one’s head much of the time).
while we were eating the thursday special (chicken pot pie) and sipping our tea, Eric said a very funny line – and then picked up his digital recording device and through the miracle of Technology sent it to his cohort on The Dinner Party Show and it will undoubtedly appear in this sunday’s show (do listen, it’s extremely witty). 
And then we drove back down Hollywood Boulevards and felt so special to be in an open top car with the lights of tinseltown (and modified-to-look-vaguely-glam chain stores) beaming down like kleig lights making Jean Harlow’s blonde hair into a shimmering crown – we’re pretty sure we spotted a super trooper left over from the most recent Premiere at the Chinese Theatre too.
just like the one ABBA sang about. 
we really love this whole writing-life.
My goodness. Real glamour! Love it. *sigh*
it did feel Completely Delicious.
in a word …divine!
thank you! and it was indeed :-)
important to celebrate Properly – non?
who said the golden age of hollywood was over? emerald and malachite with envy my dear!
it helps to tint the photographs into B&W to bring back some of that old-fashioned glamo(u)rousness ;-)
Dearest G
He does sound like a dear. A true Bel Ami.
Congratulations on the advance too… champers on you?
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy
*waving* with pale violet gloves with tiny pearl buttons and l’air du temps.
I am smiling over your adventures in life and in writing. Did your most excellent friend see/hear the latest news from our most excellent little country? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW4DXOAXF8U We are all feeling quite pleased, most especially because we’ve once again beaten our Australian cousins across the ditch (aka as the Tasman Sea). We like to do everything better than them :) And this man has become an unlikely star with his speech on the Amendment Bill http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRQXQxadyps
yay NZ!
and may we say what a very understated and splendid carpet that is for the Parliament.
Goodness, I will take your word for it. I was too busy watching the people to notice the carpet.
that’s the thing.
we always notice the carpet.