I was in Los Angeles last week, partying with some very cool people: A classmate from the University of Salamanca, Spain, who’s now a television producer, my Sicilian fashionista friend from Chicago, a long-lost coworker from my teaching days in Turkey, my sister, her beautiful family, and ballers like this:
My lil' nephew. Photo: V. Incandela
While I was in LA, I had a photo shoot scheduled with the one and only Pixie Vision Productions.
Upon entering the garage on the way to have my makeup done for the shoot, what should happen?
. . . A large, metal ladder fell on my face. It hurt. A lot.
I had a big knot on my forehead, and looked a bit like a unicorn, which is pretty special, but not quite the concept I’d had in mind.
Needless to say, we canceled the shoot. 
We tried again after the swelling had had 24 hours to go down.
The photo shoot was a success!
