The Paparrazi Ruined My Rented RV!
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana in a traffic tunnel in Paris. I remember very clearly where I was and how I found about what was to become a shock to the world at large. I was on my way to Burning Man with my good friend, Matt Workman. I was about to experience a very personal telling of the Robin Williams masterpiece "R.V." -- except without all the sight gags, laughs and general entertainment value. (ha!) It was an unusual trip to say the very least, right from the start. I had rented a very large vacation home on wheels. I had no idea how large until, after only driving it for four minutes, I managed to thwap a pole in the parking lot of the Burbank McDonalds with the very long ass-end of the vehicle. From just outside the vehicle, off the distance, I heard a smart ass remark from a bystander. No doubt Matt remembers the exact wording, but it was something like "Way to go dorkstick". This only caused very minimal damage to the ...