A Rainy Friday in SoCal...

There aren't many of them, so those of us who live here secretly love the rain.  Oh yeah, we complain, and our cars spin out on the not-often-wet roads, but we are smiling on the inside. Sometimes it feels like the city needs one great big shower, and a bodyscrub -- the feeling of being cleansed -- and the driving rain gives us that.   

BIG TEASE

I'll be filling you in this weekend on the events of tonight.  It's an official Grammy Week celebration event...MusiCares --  a benefit for musicians who can't afford health care -- and so much more. Always a well-attended, star-studded event.... this year's tribute is to Neil Diamond, and performers include Coldplay (are you kidding me??? can't wait for that), Jennifer Hudson (fresh off her SuperBowl appearance, and considering all she's been through, should be a moving performance), Tim McGraw, Josh Groban (my Mom's fave -- he actually, upon my request during a cocktail party we were both attending -- gave her a call once and she kept him on the phone for 15 minutes... what a sport)!   Then, if even possible, it gets BETTER, because afterward there's an after-party where Timbaland and Rihanna will be performing!  BEST part of all of this, I'm attending these events and not working.  It happens so rarely, that I have to relish the moment it does.   I'll give you all the details over the weekend, until then, have a great one...