Musician Second Class in the US Navy Alaina Ilko just met Donald Trump at a Friends of Vietnam Vets Luncheon at the Metropolitan Club on the Upper East Side.

The sailor said she wanted to meet Trump to 'see what's up with that hair'.

When asked how her fact finding mission went, she replied,"I've seen a comb over before because my uncle had one - but I've never seen something so bizarre!"

We had a busy night of showing up places where we were vaguely welcomed and totally under-dressed for.

Founder of Greenlight Capital, David Einhorn threw a release party for his first book Fooling Some People All of the Time about his experiences with Allied Capital.

So the food was amazing and we've seen less black clothing at wakes. New York Magazine had two photographers and a writer covering the event. Mediabistro had two bloggers pounding free beers, gratis Chinese Food and complimentary book copies. Score one for new media!

Nikki Finke brought us this story. New York Times political columnist Frank Rich has announced that he will be working as a creative consultant at HBO.

Weird cross-over? Strange bedfellows? Conflict of interest?

Well columnists get paid for their expertise and opinion and consultants get paid for their expertise and opinion, so it's not that big of a jump.

It's like a fortune cookie writer have a twitter account.

According to the LA Weekly's cover story Grand Old Party and their huge tent have been going to the gym and getting their chests waxed.

Not really, we just liked the visual. But the Republicans did have a major role in the California Supreme Court ruling earlier this month, as the Weekly reports.

We think that a California Republican is akin to a Texas ultra liberal...or an Alabama total commie.

Our thanks to Ron Hogan of GalleyCat for taking the picture. Author Jeffery Lewis and his latest novel Adam the King we're the guest of honor at this party on the Upper West Side. Jeffery Lewis is pictured above with his long time school friend and your humble blogger, Tina Dupuy.

We actually purchased Theme Song for an Old Show his book about the television industry at the party. Then begged for Mr. Lewis to sign it for us. Which he did. He wrote,"Best wishes in all media endeavors, Jeffery Lewis."

Isn't that the closing line of all rejection letters? So Hollywood.

In today's Morning Call Time podcast, Judy Greer and HBO get caught in a Suburban Shootout, Trent Jones helps Teri Polo get tough on crime, and Jonathan Demme carries Bob Marley's tune for Martin Scorsese.

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If you are interested in the gist of what Wired Editor Chris Anderson had to say at the Mediabistro Circus, we would like to send you to our sibling blogs for their excellent coverage. PRNewser did a video of the keynote speaker in the green room. And FishbowlNY covered his big announcement that wasn't.

Uhm, we are self-absorbed, but it is LA, right? But now we're trying to make good.

This is from our tip jar:

I hoped to see something marking the passing of a PR great on your news page today. To say that a lot of people, especially in Entertainment PR, have collectively shed a tear over the news that Warren Cowan passed away is not an exaggeration. It's pretty big news and makes one wonder if MB will make any note of it. His passing is the end of an era. We, the hundreds maybe thousands, of PR professionals who knew him, feel the loss.

From the record: Mediabistro did do some pieces about it. PRNewser did a piece on it. As did TVNewser.

Now we have our chance too. Rest in peace, Mr. Cowan. And thanks to our anonymous tipster for keeping us on track.

Since we've been in New York, we've noticed that as soon as we say that we are from LA - people suddenly talk slower to us. Use smaller words. In some instances - like in the case of the elderly - talk louder.

Now we've figured out why: Jonah Goldberg is a columnist at our hometown newspaper.

It's not Paris Hilton that makes us all look like half-witted morons - it's our 'public intellectual' Jonah.

His column today is titled "The Church of Green."

At its core, environmentalism is a kind of nature worship. It's a holistic ideology, shot through with religious sentiment.

The irony here is that his premise is recycled from the renewable resource of Ann Coulter and her book Godless: The Church of Liberalism that was released on the apropos date of 06/06/06.

This is FishbowlNY's Noah Davis, Glynnis MacNicol and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven.

We can't decide if this is a candid blogger shot or a Mac commercial.

In today's Morning Call Time podcast, Breck Eisner and Neil Moritz take on Ming the Merciless, Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton stop Ubisoft's sands of time in Persia, and Disney Channel welcomes Demi Lovato to Mollywood.

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Opposing political pundits/husband and wife - James Carville and Mary Matalin will be in June Green issue of Salon City.

From their release:

"Mr. Carville and Ms. Matalin demonstrate how people with opposing points of view can coexist in an environment of love and respect," commented Casciola. "We're honored to have them in Salon City's first Green issue."

And in case you missed it - James Carville was the best 30 Rock cameo ever. Ever.

James Frey has already received a public caning. So (unless we get some comped ring-side seats) we don't need to see another one. But still, the LAT piece on the front page acts as if "Pieces" was The Blair Witch Project and more of a hoax than a fabrication.

Is it because his new book is celebrating LA in literature and since Charles Bukowski isn't around anymore we've been deprived of that?
From LAT:

"I'm definitely more humble, I'm definitely more contained, I'm definitely living a quieter life," Frey said, popping one of many pieces of nicotine gum. "I'm just really grateful to have a book coming out. It's similar to 'A Million Little Pieces' -- I was just so excited to have a book coming out. It's awesome. I write about L.A. as the city of dreams, and this is another dream . . .

We went to a little cocktail party last night in Soho. It was fun. We got a chance to talk with other Mediabistro bloggers face to face.

We want to know if our readers would be interested in having a mixer in LA. Would you guys like to meet each other face to face?

Or we can have a party and all our readers can walk by, see whats going on and then quicker dart off. Ahem.

We are attending the Mediabistro Circus today. We will be posting about it later. Chris Anderson of Wired is the keynote speaker. We plan to ask him why they only accept pitches via snail mail. It's Wired magazine. Thats's like drug testing at High Times.