First I had a twitch in my eye, then he folded my face in half.  I went to school with make-up on and disappointed my son.  Eventually, I shined my shoes and went to Kinkos.  Of course, this isn’t even the half of it…

Jerome Benton is an actor, dancer and vocalist, best known for being comic foil to Morris Day as a member of the funk rock band The Time.  He co-starred in Prince vehicles Purple Rain, Under the Cherry Moon and Graffiti Bridge.  He is currently preparing for a new album and tour with the original members of The Time.

You don’t really have the soundtrack to Purple Rain unless you have Ice Cream Castle…

*Special note to particularly young white people: The Time is the band that brings the house down at the end of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back

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I talk a bit about my latest trip to Costco, by way of The Diaper Genie.  Trust me, there is no actual genie inside The Diaper Genie.  Just big plastic poop-sausage.

I have always believed that running in flip-flops is a bad idea, especially on the sidewalk.  And, unfortunately, I was proven right.

It turns out I’m not being paranoid, I’m being “parent-noid.”  (Turns out I didn’t coin that phrase.  Darn!)
Let me know if you want to help out as a contributor to Action Dad’s Guide, my developing resource for parents.  Drop me a line at pill @ dan klass .com.

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Yes, Verge of LA, the new multi-media magazine/website is now available in print.  The first edition includes great stories and photos by Lance Anderson, Tim Coyne, Cush, C.C. Chapman, Hiram from the The Human Value band, Beverly Minkins and Dan Farren of Story Salon, Larry Winfield of Sundown Lounge, yours truly (naturally) and many others.  I still haven’t read the whole thing, and am dying to check out Julio Martinez’s story about meeting one of my idols, Lenny Bruce.
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FROM THE PUBLICATION:  Los Angeles is a tough town for most people to wrap their mind around, everything can seem too sprawling and scattered. Though one way to look at Los Angeles is not as a large international city, but instead as a small country with still smaller cities contained within it’s border. “What border?” you ask. That will be one of the main tasks of our quest. We’ll ask writers, photographers, musicians and filmmakers to help us understand this enigma of a city. The artists will tell their unique story, while searching for the timeless truths that live forever in all of our journeys.

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