I was sitting in a doctor's office in New York, waiting for my friend to get through his appointment so I picked up some magazines, amongst them Vanity Fair (the one with George Clooney on the cover) and was thumbing through it when I came across this interesting blurb on page 112 or 114, I can't remember.

The story was about this artist who came to New York and was having limited success with her tiny dioramas until she introduced anthropomorphic chickens into the scenes. She now has a book entitled, Bitter With Baggage Seeks Same featuring the said dioramas.

What's interesting is that the artist in question, Sloane Tanen, is a classmate from Brentwood School, my super-exclusive LA westside high school. My class was small. We had only 64 students graduate my year. So you can imagine my surprise when I saw her face in the pages of Vanity Fair. I also managed to get through 6 years of school with Sloane without either having a class with her or even speaking a single word to her, which should tell you something about the nature of Brentwood School.