The three or four people closely following my glorious career, and composing various unauthorized biographies about me, peed themselves a little recently when I quietly launched a new side project: A gangsta rapper alter ego known as “Righteous Culo.” This was combined with the announcement of my first album filled…

Researching the awesome “Florence Explorer 2.0” city guide app (UPDATE: sadly, now defunct) contractually required me to once again to sacrifice the bod and eat prodigious amounts of food during my recent visit. Since one of the guidelines was to put together an “author favorites” list, and since the app…