Radar screening in NY 8/29

A full day of interviews at the New York junket for Choke with Chuck Palahniuk and Sam Rockwell. Five straight hours of interviews. I never want to hear myself say another word. And that's saying something because I have an extremely high tolerance for my own sarcastic bullshit. Later we met up downtown for a screening of the film put on by the symbiotically sarcastic Radar Magazine. We did a Q&A afterwards. Some highlights included Chuck explaining that all the secret PA codes in the book ("Doctor Blue is paged in a hospital. That means somebody stopped breathing.") are real and that many of them were learned when he was a Candy Striper in a Catholic hospital. Now there's an image I love. Sam responded to a question about working with Anjelica Huston by saying that she is "all that and a bag of chips." When Chuck advised people to check out something called Colorectal Impaction by Foreign Body Management I was surprised because I am pretty certain that I was represented by them in the 90's. Turns out I was, but they dumped me. We went to a party afterwards. Something about being offered tuna tartare in a seedy basement bar makes me a little nervous. So I only had three.