the other Maryann

Met up with Maryann Bowers at Soho House for drinks Friday night. Had not seen her in probably 2 years! She also looks great and is settling down in London after a tough first year or so and nearly 4 years married to Andy Melchior. Serendipity led her into a position as Product Manager for Live 8 and she's since been consulting for telcos on entertainment projects. Andy had just spent the week with Mick Rock shooting 20 bands for GQ's style issue, so was pretty fried but rallied to come out to see me before he heads off to Cambridge, Manchester and Berlin.

Michele

Dear Michele came down from Nottingham, but a little later than expected after having managed to nearly asphyxiate herself with suede spray the night before, bless her. She'd sold a pair of thigh-high boots on eBay for an extremely nice profit (112 times what she paid for them!), and was cleaning them up like the blue-star eBay seller she is, but soon found herself coughing and having great difficulty breathing. Scary stuff! Luckily she managed to avoid a trip to the hospital, and rallied to come down to London on a later train, though still having periodic coughing fits and having to take it a little slow the first day about town. We also hooked up with Natasha later in the evening for drinks at Harvey Nick's 5th floor bar. She looks fantastic and seems very happy at Sony Computer Entertainment; sadly I forgot to take a photo of her!