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I only had one friend in MySpace when I joined in 2005. “Tom”. In fact, all 100 million people who had joined MySpace had one friend. “Tom”. He welcomed us all to our new cyber home and made us feel as comfortable as possible there. “Tom” is Tom Anderson, a cofounder of the MySpace, the […]

I was in the process of separating from my ex-wife and the pain was bordering on suicidal. At the same time my whole family was moving into a new home right at the bottom of the worst housing crisis in the century. At the same time I owned a bunch of stocks  and they were […]

“Listen,” I said to the nurse and now I feel bad about it, “I called in for a PERCOCET prescription. You told me, ‘Done!’ and then I went to the pharmacy, waited around for 30 minutes , came back home all excited with my new toys, opened up and saw it was Vicodin. You guys […]

At Barnes & Noble at Union Square a cop approached me, “Sir?” right after I walked in. When a cop approaches you so many things go through your mind. The guy clearly had a gun. Somehow I was in trouble. I touched a book. Maybe he thought I would steal it. It brought back memories […]

I had these huge purple cysts covering my face when I was a teenager. Once a month my dad would take me to a doctor into the city. He’d drop me off outside the building of the “celebrity dermatologist” on 72nd Street and I’d sit there for hours in the waiting room.  Each person there […]

“We’ve determined he’s stolen at least $12 million cash from his investors and put it in a Swiss bank account under his own name. We tracked down the account.” Lewis, the head of a multi-billion dollar fund of funds was telling me this on the phone. Lewis had about $30mm invested with David. I had […]

I wrote a book and decided to call it “How to be the luckiest person alive!” But I didn’t feel so lucky when I woke up this morning. My mouth was in a train wreck of pain. Earlier this week I decided to get 20 years worth of dental work done in three hours. I […]