billy baldwin

So Billy Baldwin was on my flight back from California today, and we talked for about ten minutes. Our kids are approximately the same ages, and we’re both contemplating moving to L.A., and we’re both interested in improv/comedy, so we had some things to talk about. He told me he’d enjoyed performing in The Moth and that they were going to do something similar in L.A. and that I should look into it. He actually said that I should have my people contact his agent about it. I KNOW!

I also told him that I’d written a poem about his brother Alec, and i asked him to tell Alec about it. I wrote him a note so that he wouldn’t forget:

   Dear Mr. Baldwin,

   The Bird Hoverer (2007)
   by Aaron Belz

   contains the poem
   “2005 Is an Important Year
   for Alec Baldwin” (p.47)

   it is something of a paean—

   would you mind telling
   your brother about it,
   perhaps?

   Gratefully,
      the author
      http://belz.net

Anyway, he promised he’d look up the poem and tell Alec about it.

Ahh, California.