Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder

(Have Your People Call My People — Doing Deals In My Dressing Room. OK, pizza deals, but still.)

So as fantastic as appearing on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno was today (a link to the segment is below), I’m especially appreciative of the eco-friendly shwag bag Jay and the genuinely warm and Earth-interested producers gave me. Made of organic cotton and burlap, it included a compact fluorescent light bulb that I needed when I got back to the hotel room and found the reading lamp bulb burnt out. So that, and 12 million people hearing about Farewell, My Subaru were both pretty cool. Greenly illuminated, I then I ordered some Thai (local in parts of L.A.) and switched on the TV for the predictably surreal experience of watching myself while five hours younger.

 

 

(Jay’s Cue Card — in case he forgot Prince’s name)

Jay asked intelligent questions, by the way, and Prince gave a three song concert after his appearance on the show (which was interrupted by the first ever fire alarm evacuation during a taping of the Tonight Show — I had nothing to do with it, but thought I did, as I flushed the toilet just as the flashing lights went on all over the building. I briefly believed I had won some sort of jackpot, or violated some obscure Southern California water use law. The source was actually an an errant smoke machine at Access Hollywood). The other guest this night was Hugh Laurie, who leaned over and told me, “Great stuff. You did really well,” when my segment went to commercial. This was extremely kind and relieving, as I had no idea what I said. I was too tired (from the long book tour) and nervous (from uncertainty about the fashionableness of my new cowboy hat — the old one had too much goat poop on it for national network distribution).

So, to watch the segment in all its Rhinestone Cowboy glory, (be sure to follow the steps below the link to get to the right day and segment) go to:

http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/episodes.shtml

Then click on May 28, then click on “select chapters,” then click on the fellow with the cowboy hat, second from the right. They’ll make you watch a commercial, then enjoy.

(One other note: they only keep the shows up on the NBC site for a couple of weeks, so if you’re reading this after, say, late June, ‘2008′ and want to see the show, try clicking on the “News and Reviews” link on the right side of this page, and I’ll probably have a YouTube link up.)

I just returned to Planet Earth to post this. For me, it’s Leno one day. goat-milking the next. More posts from the carbon-neutral book tour soon, of course, including the greasiest non-fossil-fuel-fill-up in the history of auto mechanical propulsion (and the veggie oil came from a vegetarian Indian restaurant in Berkeley, California, so my exhaust-inspired cravings migrated abruptly from Kung Pao Chicken to curry).

Oh, and here’s the video from a CNN interview I did recently — all of this media stuff will be up on the new “News and Reviews” link in the right column of his page.

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