Have you been listening to the new Jack White?  If you follow me on twitter and facebook you know I’m obsessed.  Obsessed!!  Blunderbuss is incredible and I can’t stop listening.   I finally got a chance to watch “It Might Get Loud” and I hate to admit I was a little disapointed.  The Jack White parts were so great but the Edge was so boring!  Hey Davis Guggenheim, next time just do the movie on him!  Meanwhile, I talked to Davis last year and here it is if you care.

I have been cranking with the interviews lately.  They’re all posted here.  Bonnie Raitt (incredible), Vanessa Williams (fabulous), Greg Allman (giggles), Lisa Rinna (hysterical) and Chyna talked to me about her Avengers XXX film.  It’s my dream to do a show that’s strictly interviews and stuff.  Someday……..  Until then, check some of them out if you’re bored.

Laters…

Speaking of great shows, we went to see Springsteen last weekend.  After seeing him many times this was hands down one of the greatest shows.  You can read our review and see pics here.   Being the news junkie that I am it was so great to run into one of my all time favorite CNN reporters Gary Tuchman!  I loved meeting Gary and his wife Kathy.

Working at CBS Radio you never know who you’ll see in the halls.  Over the past couple of weeks we’ve had some great people like Nelly.

You can listen to our interview here.  He was really fun!

I also had the chance to talk to Brad Goreski from “It’s A Brad Brad World”.  You can watch the interview here .  What a nice guy!  He’s the gay best friend every girl wants.

While we’re talking Bravo shows I also ran into Pheadra Parks and everybody knows she is fabulous!

And if you watch Tabatha Takes Over I may be on it this week!!  They’ve done several shows here in Atlanta and she asked me to be on it.  I haven’t been able to talk about it but now I can!  It’s the segment with Salon Deco and let’s hope I don’t get edited out

Beside being fired up about this I’ve been watching too much TV.  Besides my obsession with Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live (is 5 nights too many?!  I don’t know) I’m so into Revenge!!  Every episode gets better.  It’s like Dynasty.  I cannot wait for GCB with Kristin Chenoweth.  Anything that’s called “Good Christian Bitches” is something to sign me up for immediately.  I’m also excited a year in advance for the possibility of a remake of the 70′s book “Scruples” with Natalie Portman.   Yes please.

OK I am going to bore you with another Charlie picture.  Yes, I know he looks like he’s from a rural area with his two missing teeth.  I cannot believe he is growing up so fast!!! And yes, I’ve “instagramed” his picture like the old ass hipster that I am.  What-ever.

This was taken yesterday at the Cake circle of friends (thanks Liz Bradley). I feel pretty lucky that his first concert was in a lounge of a fancy hotel.  Can’t you tell he looks thrilled?  He did enjoy it—especially coming on the mic to thank everyone.  He LOVES being on stage (wonder where he gets that from?).

Have a great 2012 and again, thanks for reading!!  Talk to you next year!!

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When my brother Ian called to say he had an extra ticket I jumped at the chance.

Just being in the Kennedy Center is breathtaking.  Besides the tons of A list celebrities in attendance there were Senators, members of Congress and CEO’s in the house. We instantly recognized Thomas Friedman from the New York Times followed by Alan Greenspan who I accidentally knocked down.  Seriously.  He is kinda small and frail and I’m well, you know.

We then went to find our seats and learned we had a better view than Madeline Albright.

Some people were snapping pics left and right I was trying to play it cool (yeah, OK).

Once everyone was in their seats a voice piped in and said “ladies and gentelmen the President Of The United States”.  The photographers were going crazy as they walked in.  The Obamas sat in a box next to honorees Meryl Streep, Sonny Rollins, Yo Yo Ma, Barbara Cook and Neil Diamond.

I took a deep breath and soaked it all in. Being in the Kennedy Center and in the same room as the President and First Lady?  I don’t care how you roll with politics—this was pure magic.

The first honoree was Meryl Streep.  Tracy Ullman came out and it was so great to see her (where has she been??).  She gave a hilarious speech about Meryl and then they showed a montage of her movies produced by Mike Nichols.  Then they did this play/song and dance thing with Stanley Tucci, Kevin Kline, Emily Blunt and the extremely talented Anne Hathaway.  She sang and did a split at the same time.  No joke!

After that it was a tribute to legendary sax player Sonny Rollins.  Bill Cosby came out and gave a hilarious and surprisingly brief (for Bill Cosby) monologue.  Herbie Hancock and many jazz legends played an incredible set of music afterwards. Just when the show couldn’t get any better out comes Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick to honor Broadway legend Barbara Cook.  They had several unbelievable Broadway/Opera singers but the only ones I was familiar with were Patti Lupone (incredible) and Glenn Close (fantastic).  The power of these women singing together just electrified the atomosphere.

After a short intermission John Lithgow was next to induct Neil Diamond.  I’m not sure what the connection is between these two but he was entertaining.  They did a medley of songs with starting with Rapheal Saadiq.  Then Jennifer Nettles came out and was amazing (more on her later).  Just when you thought it couldn’t get better Lionel Richie comes out and blows everyone away.  After that Smokey Robinson sang and I’m sorry to say he was just OK.  The interesting thing is that we thought the Neil Diamond part was going to be the highlight and it turned out to be just alright.

Finally it was Yo Yo Ma’s turned to be honored.  Stephen Colbert came out and did the most hilarious speech.  This made up for the fact that Elmo (??) gave him a big speech as well.  Then they had a few different styles of music to represent him including classical, world music and bluegrass.  This completely trumped the Neil Diamond Part.

After the main event was over they had a big dinner with a full orchestra, 3 course meal and dancing.  The only star I had the nerve to go up to was Jennifer Nettles because I kind of know her.

She recognized me instantly and was super nice.  She introduced me to her husband, I asked for this picture and then people started coming up to her left and right. At first I felt kind of bad but people were doing that to the stars all night.  At the table next to us I watched a lady in her 90′s completely wear down Lionel Richie.

A 17 year girl at our table couldn’t sit still because she got a picture with Anne Hathaway.  Stephen Colbert walked by but I totally chickened out.  Plus I had to play it cool since we were sitting with all kinds of fancy people.

When I got home it was as if my glass slipper came off.  I’m trying to stay on Ian’s good side so I can go again next year.

The Kennedy Center Honors airs December 27th on CBS, see if you can find me

This is just typical.  You plan a trip for months to have the most magical time EVER at Disney World and what happens?  Your kid gets strep throat and Scarlet Fever.  I know it sounds like 1955 but seriously, I cannot make this up.  Charlie had been complaining of a sore throat a few days earlier and I kept saying “no you don’t, you’re fine!  We are going to Disney!!”.  While refusing to believe Charlie was sick we did manage to get one day at the Magic Kingdom while he was heavily medicated on ibuprofen.

The deal was sealed the following day when he had high fever and a rash. The magic was over and we decided it was time to hit it.  Thankfully Disney can extend your passes for 25 (!) years so now we HAVE to go back.

We ended up going to my mom’s early.  She lives in Boca Raton, the only place where you can buy a high chair for a DOG.

We had a nice low key Thanksgiving while waiting for Charlie’s sickness to improve.  Arlene couldn’t have been happier to have us so it all worked out.

I’m excited to get back to work this week as we have lots coming up.  The “dave-fm Holiday Road Show” is back, I’ll be broadcasting from a different mall every day starting December 5th with Toys For Tots.  And check this out—I am going to the Kennedy Center Honors!!  My brother goes every year for work and this year he’s invited me to be his date.  They are inducting Meryl Streep, Neil Diamond, Yo Yo Ma and Sonny Rollins.  Total once in a lifetime opportunity and I can’t wait to post pictures and stuff.  Stay tuned!

Hope you had a great holiday week.

We also had a slumber party with 3 of his friends which was a riot.  There was minimal drama and a great time was had by all.

When it was bedtime (10?) I was able to slip out to “Disco-ween” over at Paris On Ponce (what a great venue!  LOVE that place). This was a a benefit for Canine Companions and the costume theme was 70′s disco.  The theme didn’t matter to my pal Jake who dressed up as “Born This Way” Lady Gaga.

He had to leave early to go to “3 other parties” (natch) otherwise he would have totally won. I know you’re wondering what I’m dressed as–and the answer is nothing.  I know, fail.

Saturday I was invited to moderate a fan panel of AMC’s Walking Dead at the Cobb Energy Center (the CDC on the show!) They had a whole scene set up with zombie dummies, the real trailer from the show and more.  We had dave-fm listeners who were invited along with the 20 winners and guests from around the country.  They had several of the stars on site and I will link the photo gallery and videos on dave.fm from it later.  Until then, here are some iphone zombie pics.

Thumbs up!  I’m alive.

These are some of the extras from the Casting Couch from Extras Casting Atlanta!  They are “walkers” from the show.

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a sign inside the Walking Dead trailer on the show

The national winners were treated to tickets to the sold out Jay Z/Kanye West show at Phillips Arena after the event.  There was an extra pair of tickets and the AMC people gave them to us. Since I’m around V103 so often I surprisingly knew most of the songs.  I really kinda loved it and it was a totally different experience than a rock show.  We had incredible seats which made it even better.  I’m not sure I’d pay to see these guys again ($250 a ticket!) but I’m glad I can check these hip hop gods of my concert bucket list.

Actually my favorite part of the show was the fashion!  Bags, shoes, glitter, tight Herve Leger bandage dresses, hair, make up, I could go on.  I wish I had pictures of some of the looks but that would have been totally weird.  ”Hey!  Can I take your picture you look fabulous!”  Actually, they may have liked that.  Oh well.

Next weekend you’re going to hear me on the radio urging you to donate to Children’s Healthcare Of Atlanta.  This is a cause near and dear to the radio station and pretty much everyone in Georgia.  If you have a kid or you know someone who does–you know how lucky we are to have this here.  Learn more about our radiothon at dave.fm—but starting Thursday you’ll hear a lot more from me about it

I have to plug the florist Adaptation Atlanta here because from now on anytime I need flowers I will use them.  Keep in mind this pic was taken almost A WEEK after Ron sent them.  I cannot believe they still look this good.  Thanks again Ron!!

If I continue to rave it would be boring so let me rant about Hank Williams Jr.  This week he got into a pickle by comparing President Obama to Hitler. ESPN banned “Are You Ready For Some Football” because of this.  As much as I think Hank is bats**t crazy it’s lame that one interview caused this kind of uproar.  Being the Dixie Chicks fan that I am I hate to see anyone banned for whatever opinion they may have—even if it’s something I strongly disagree with.

Last week I interviewed actor Austin Stowell from the delightful movie “Dolphin Tale”.  He’s barely in the movie but the studio schlepped him around on a press tour.  I take these interviews with people no one’s heard of for a variety of reasons.  1-you never know if their career will take off.  2-if you do some of the minor interviews publicists will bring you the good ones and 3-why not, it’s fun and I love to do it.  OK, so this guy comes in and he’s super attractive and sweet.  The interview was pretty much DOA because all he could muster out was boring facts about the movie.  I finally ask him about being the newest heartthrob (I mean look at him, he’s gorgeous) and how he could be the new Robert Pattinson.

Then in a lame effort to break the ice I say “do you think you could kick his ass”" in a total jokey way.  He kind of panics and so does the publicist.  Meanwhile, that wasn’t even the worst part.  I asked if his mother had seen the movie.  At first he said “no” and then he suddenly remembered she was at the premiere.  From there I am harrased to “please edit that part out about Robert Pattinson OR ELSE”!!!!!!!  Call me crazy, but if I’m the publicist the part about forgetting your mom was at the premiere was a lot worse??  Anyway, I refused to edit so we are not posting it at all.  Trust me, you’re not missing much and at some point I’ll show it to you because really, who gives a crap?  It’s too bad because he’s really, really sweet—but is in desparate need of media training.  Regardless of this experience, go see the movie with your kids.  It’s wonderful and I loved it.