Brian Bentley

A brief update covering the weekend’s activites:

- Melinda and I went to the State Fair of Texas on Friday and enjoyed the sights and great weather. We did enjoy the required Fletcher’s corny dogs, but missed out on sampling any of this year’s fried delicacies. However, I was tempted to try the Fried PBJ & Banana…

- While at the Fair, I spotted this. Does anyone see any glaring issues that might have been missed during the proofing process? And where does the other gate lead to? Am I the only one puzzled by all of this?

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Melinda and I were in L.A. this past weekend for a friend’s 50th birthday party in Santa Monica on Saturday. I can now say I’ve been to a “L.A. Party” as there were celebs present. It was good to see Page, since he had no idea we were coming, and was genuinely shocked and happy we made the trip.

While in L.A. we went shopping on Rodeo drive, hit Hollywood Boulevard, made a visit to Kevin Smith’s store in Westwood, hit the Santa Monica Pier, and caught up with some friends on Saturday and Sunday.

The pictures are posted here.

I had the good fortune of attending the NCAA Men’s Tournament Regionals here in Dallas Friday night thanks to my good friend Roxy Bernstein who is the radio play-by-play voice for the #7 seeded University of California men’s basketball team (that’s him at his courtside broadcast position under the big red arrow). After leading 29-25 at the half against #10 seeded N.C. State, the Bears couldn’t catch a break in the second half as they weren’t able to establish anything down low and the refs called what seemed to be a completely different game in the second half. Read more

JC and Steve
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After the show, Juany and I met up with a friend of mine, Steve.

Monday Night Raw
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Steve got us great seats for the show. No, John’s head is not that large.

I have not had that much fun in a while. Great show and nice of Steve to get us the tickets.

I’m in LA right now visiting my friend Page, and enjoying some R&R here on the coast. The cool thing about this trip is that Page called and asked if I would come out to help him setup his new mac laptop….and he would pay for the plane ticket. After much deliberation (less than three seconds) I took him up on the offer. Yesterday was practically an apple boot camp with me tutoring Page, his friend Marlon, and Steve Austin. Yes, of the WWE. Most surreal moment of the day, sitting between Page and Austin as they discussed computer stuff like a couple of gearheads.

I hope I will be able to meet up with some friends out here for dinner and get caught up. Some I haven’t seen since college, some since last summer and some I saw just a couple weeks ago. The great thing about these people is that eventhough they are now in LA, they’re still the people I became friends with however long ago, and for that I feel pretty fortunate.

As for the NBC Pilot, I got great feedback from the casting directors and my tape got sent to NBC, but I didn’t get selected. I’m ok with that because my main goal was to go in prepared and give a good read, which they tell me I did. I’m still getting some feedback trickling in from “180″ as people seem to dig the vibe of the short and enjoy the humor. I’m 25 pages into my next script which I will share more about as it gets closer to being done.

I’ve been doing the moblog thing again and will continue to for the duration of my trip.

Doing this as a monthly (or longer) deal was not my original intent so I will try to be more proactive with the blog.

Hope all is well. Be good.

-BB