Twelve Days Of 40!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don't know me by now you'll come to appreciate that I am a showman. I love a good production number and study it's intricacies to reproduce one day in a fashion that suit me. What I've learned from Cher alone, but I digress. Attention Whore? Maybe. Non-traditionalist? Abso-smurfly. (By the by, the Smurfs just turned fifty). At the end of the year I will be ripening like fruit (funny on three levels) to the mature age of 4 decades. 4 decades is earlier to remember than Tony 4.0 or 39 a, but either way there's gonna be some flourish.





Out to lunch (insert joke) with friend Tiffany, a remarkable young lady with as much gumption as myself, sans gaul she asked how I would be marking my 4 decade natal anniversary. I told her of plans to jump from a plane, new tattoo, toys, parties etc. I told her that it would definitely fill a week's worth of activities. She told me that I could do better. (Pause. Cue climbing music) Celebrate the 17 th of every month with some amazing feats of daring and decadence. She's an event coordinator/showman with her own bubbling business. She named this clockwork-banana "The Twelve Days Of 40". Drool fell from my attention whore lips into my lo mien. A sparkle jumped from my eye to her squeals of delight. It was an amazing moment. And as the 'plans' have been forming it became less about me, and more about fun. My people here there and everywhere are being put on notice that if your are around the Los Angeles area during a 17 th of the month and want to have a few squeals, call me. The Master List is being tabulated with forty or more goals to be hit during the 12 Days. Here's a taste;

1. Get notarized.

2. See Cabo.

3. Beach Picnic @ Matador.

4. Stop nail biting.

5. See Sicily.

6. Celebrate anyone who's bday is the 17th.

7. Breast Cancer benefit.

8. Clean closets of apartment to Bree Van De Kamp Crazy.

9. Best shape of life.

10. Find Leslie Silva.

11. New tattoo.

12. Sushi off a male model.

13. Jump from a plane.

14. Jump from a bridge.

15. Jump by Van Halen.

16. Post this crap online.

17. See the LA Colosseum.

18. Tell Phillip Morris to go scratch.

19. Adopt. A panda.

20.See all LA museums.

and the Master List goes on.....suggestions encouraged.

For those of you so inclined, join in wherever you feel. I'm hoping to have a website where there can be fun and frolic, maybe even a gift shoppe for memorabilia. But there will be (blood) pictures and laughs, so tune in.

By the power vested in me my by striking good looks, some striking writers, the sagitarian zodiac, The Universal Life Church, and the state of California, I hereby declare The 12 Days Of 40 now open!!!!

Rabbit, rabbit.

Rabbit, rabbit.

Saying Rabbit, rabbit first thing on the first day of the month will bring you Good fortune. I don't know this as fact, but I do know it as superstition, and that's good enough for me.

Rabbit, rabbit.

Well a crazy year has passed and it has brought us a new one to play with. 2007 was a year of enormous change and growth and I hope the lessons learned provide the way to a great new year. 2008 holds interest to me as it is the long walk towards.....................................40. I'm also dabbling with calling it 39a, or Tony 4.0 or Cuarenta-dah (hands flourish)! You can insert any Green Mile joke you want to here. But make no mistake, I will welcome this opportunity with arms wide open and laughter raucous. I officially launch The 12 Days of 40 on the 17th of this month with some spectacular feet of strength and daring. Tune in to get all the details.

But as you all know, New Year's means Spring cleaning, speaking of inserting. And this annually involves The Master Cleanse, starting next Monday. Tune in for updates from my colon. Hey, my heads up there so often, I may as well start blogging from there.