There are certain moments in your life you'll never forget: Your first kiss (Sarah Reidy...very passionate, I'm certain). Your first night locked up in a cell in Manhattan Beach, making collect calls to your college friends to see if anyone could make your bail
(they couldn't). Your first realization that you're not sure how to sign a book for Patrick Swayze.
My options, as I saw them:
1. Patrick: Thank you for Road House. All best, Tod Goldberg
2. Patrick: WOLVERINES! All best, Tod Goldberg
3. Patrick: Stay Gold. All best, Tod Goldberg
4. Patrick: Thank you for all the years of entertainment you've given me. All my best wishes, Tod Goldberg
If I'd thought about it a moment longer, I would have come up with something from Point Break, but, well, you do what you gots to do.
OMG! Don't leave us in suspense -- which did you choose?
I'm betting on "WOLVERINES!"
Posted by: Clair Lamb | August 15, 2007 at 04:45 AM
Or "Thank you for Road House, not so much for Ghost."
Posted by: Pete | August 15, 2007 at 07:04 AM
Will Swayze wind up putting Tod's book in a corner?
And, Tod, I do hope you were nice. Until it was time to not be nice.
Posted by: Ed | August 15, 2007 at 07:53 AM
You wait til the boys at Barrelhouse find out about this . . .
Posted by: Josh Maday | August 15, 2007 at 09:01 AM
Or how about, "Patrick: thanks for at least being better than Keanu Reeves. All the best, Tod."
Posted by: Chris H | August 15, 2007 at 01:34 PM
I am fantastically amused by your Swayze encounter! Jealous even! But your artistic depiction of him makes me a bit nervous... did you get that from a slash site?
Another movie that could have been referenced would have been "Next of Kin" Jordan LOVED that movie when he was little - at least the scene were he throws an axe clear into the middle of some guys cheast.
Posted by: Anea | August 16, 2007 at 10:21 AM
Amen, Chris H. Amen.
Posted by: Josh Maday | August 16, 2007 at 11:45 AM
You should have told him how, when you had the chance to give his address to the ex-husband of a potential stalker, you refused.
Tex
Posted by: Scott Phillips | August 16, 2007 at 08:54 PM
Patrick,
Thank you for bringing gravitas to Ghost.
TG
Posted by: Antoine Wilson | August 17, 2007 at 11:27 AM
How about: "To my good friend John Cameron Swayze, All the Best."?
Posted by: Cap'n Bob | August 18, 2007 at 03:57 PM
Or:
Patrick, You're like the wind through my trees.
Posted by: Skid Roe | September 12, 2007 at 01:02 PM