I haven't talked about my excellent pal Tony Pierce for a while - bad move me. Today Tony has two wildly divergent pieces showing why he is a complex, unique guy. He reminds me of me in that regard, as I have mentioned before.

First, he answers a reader email about blogs, big media and Warren Zevon:

Tony,

Yesterday I wanted to know more about Warren Zevon. Clicked around the blogosphere, and found lots of people saying, "Oh, that's terrible" or "Here's my analysis of this or that Zevon lyric, and aren't I clever for noticing its hidden genius."

But I already wrote something like that myself; I mean, I read a couple, but how many can you read?

Checked the L.A. Times. Glory be! They had an actual interview with the guy, with lots of new information.

As Reynolds says (or doesn't say), Advantage, Big Media.

Nance

Dear Nance,

Any time you're looking for something Hollywood or music-related, please just drop me an email or leave a comment or ask.

The same goes for the rest of youse.

Hollywood is an incredibly small place where thousands of paths cross each day and millions of paths cross each night.

I had the great opportunity of being at a party that Warren attended this summer. ironically, it was the last LA Blogger party that was held at movie producer Brian Linse's hollywood bachelor pad. Warren and Brian are friends.

The guests of honor were Eric and Dawn Olsen. That's dawn with warren in the above photo. advantage warren.

Eric, a record producer, and author of books regarding record producing, has since formed the amazingly diverse and important Blogcritics.com, to which you can find this amalgam of offerrings about Warren's fine career.

As for the LA Times, I'm still mad at them for not mentioning my name in that story about bloggers, and I will remain mad at them until they do a feature about me and the dozen or so major bloggers who reside mere miles from their ivory tower.

Thanks for the kind words once again, T. You are the coolest. But the serious point here is that the LA Times did an article on blogging that could have been written in 1999, didn't mention one freaking LA blogger even though many of the best ones are there (including Tony) and underlined the nearly open contempt that the Times shows for the phenomenon of blogging and for those who blog.