Turning Forty

Description

Being 40 doesn’t feel especially old.
When you are: Discovering strippers, working at internet companies.
Emptying parents’ antique-filled house, staying with the millionaire Aunt.
Partying on Mulholland, visiting the Four Seasons, looking at lingerie photos
Going on dates with strippers
Trying to stay alive in the e-commerce world.
Building a ten-foot sculpture of a great white shark

Turning Forty, a dramatic account written over one year of hanging out and drinking coffee at a formerly legendary cafe, the purple-lit Bourgeois Pig in Hollywood.

The inside story of life and style of a displaced New Yorker. Keen views at a Hollywood Cafe from the author as he turns forty. A planetary and space scientist sits in a purple-lit café, observing human nature. A window of sites, strange and unique.
There is an Oprah interview with details.
A visit to the Malibu Colony.
Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling from Antioch University.
Swimming in the Hunter S. Thompson pool
Dating a Hollywood stripper.

Then, after getting fired from a daytime TV show, He decides to build a shark. This could be seen as a metaphor for life. Some people might say madness–but no, just an artist having fun—stories from the clinic. One of the therapists was locked in the room.
Cleaning an antique-infested apartment in Queens