Aaron Foley is one of my favorite writers. And he’s just written a book about my hometown, “How To Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass.” The book, with its Vernor”s-liveried cover, should be required reading not only for actual or potential newcomers to the Motor City, but for anyone participating in contemporary global urbanization who would like to avoid behaving like a subjugating dick. I chatted with Aaron, and wrote about the book, for Vanity Fair.
Warning, the EXCLUSIVE video attached to this piece includes footage of me driving to a southern California shake shack, and ordering a vanilla shake, “Shaken, not stirred.”
Given the kid + car angle, I simply had to write about those five year-old Russian boys who tunneled out of their kindergarten playground, walked a mile to the local Jaguar dealership, and tried to buy a car.
I was lucky to be invited back on to Public Radio to talk about kids, and why they make you miserable.
Babies Make You Sad, and Other Bad News for New Parents
Knowing that I cringe at the sound of my voice, and aware that others may too, I submit for your listening displeasure, me talking more about how iPhones (and Kim Kardashian’s Instagram) ruined summer camp–for NPR. Scroll down a bit to find my bit.
How the iPhone Ruined Summer Camp The first in what I hope will be a new series of parenting essays for Vanity Fair.
Do like Alain Delon, James Coburn, Steve McQueen, Brigitte Bardot, Sonny Crockett,…and us.
Matthew McConaughey told me that he wants the South Park guys to do a spoof of his Lincoln commercial. (But he’d settle for Matt Damon.)
