El Viaje Está Dunzo!

After a whirlwind week travelling half-way around the globe, I'm happy (read: devastated) to say that I am back in my comfortable Beverly Hills abode. It went by all too quickly, was filled with far too much pan and not nearly enough sleep. Very "wham bam, thank you Pam." Today it's back to reality. The trip, as they say in SoCal and as we described everything in Spain, is DUNZO.

In the picture above, the trip's fearsome foursome walk off into the sunset, er sunrise, after an all-nighter in SEVILLA. Ah, that picture really brings me back: the snaking streets, the dew-covered cobblestones. I can almost still hear Kim complaining about her uncomfortable shoes. ADAM SACHS & KIM STRAUB were our super stylish Madrileno hosts. And boy if they aren't the First Couple of Madrid's high-fashion social scene. Every night it was another delectable (read: edible) meal followed by a rendezvous at one of the city's sexiest hot spots. Every bar we stepped into I immediately felt transformed, as though I was channeling NIP/TUCK's DR. CHRISTIAN TROY. Was it the constant inundations of chupitos or the sleek decor? Who's to know?

The entire endeavor was very THE SUN ALSO RISES - a bunch of privileged, carefree expatriots, drinking all day, smoking (though not us, Mom. Promise!) and chatting about the politics and frivolities we traveled thousands of miles to leave behind. Of course, in HEMINGWAY's novel, his characters' lackadaisical aimlessness was a result of deep-rooted wounds suffered by the culture of the first World War. I think the four of us were more the Lush Generation than the LOST GENERATION as the greatest cultural injustices we could even pretend to be escaping were the premature cancellation of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT and the Birth of the GARFFLECK spawn (more on that later!)

By the banks of the GUADALQUIVIR we sipped our SANGRIA and in due course casually waxed reflective about the issues facing our society today -- namely what went wrong with JIMINY GLICK IN LALAWOOD and why couldn't KRISTEN, STEPHEN and L.C. ever work it out. We were the spitting image of the cast of THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY -- and how DICKIE GREENLEAF and MARGE SHERWOOD are Adam and Kim?

My own personal roman a cleff of the events, TK....