my friend knows that i’m crazy about stephen colbert and so he took me to a live taping of the stephen colbert report a month or two ago. when the q & a section of the pre-show antics came around, i stood up and asked him if he’d found a new black best friend and if not, could i be the one. thankfully, i was the only black person there so no one could pre-empt me. we exchanged some fairly witty banter about south carolina (he’s from charleston and i have family there) and that was the end of it. sort of. i’m going to send him a package for christmas. maybe i’ll make him some red rice. i’ll definitely leave him some of my music.

ps: he’s actually even better looking in person.