I am usually writing stories and not appearing in them. But I seem to have raised my public profile this last month or so, and I wanted to thank everyone who showed any interest in what I do. I hope I gain a few more readers out of it.

I actually hate doing press. I tape all my interviews, and so I already don't trust half my colleagues who don't engage in that practice. I mean, why wouldn't you tape an interview to make sure a quote is exactly right?  Of course, you can't tape everything: much comes from conversations that you do not know are going to contain a quote you need. I text myself at once when that happens. Anyway, the real problem is that I am not very interesting outside what I write and, if all went well, I've already written it. Once a writer wanted to follow me for a day and I told him to feel free to pull up a chair: that day was all typing.

Anyway, I am actually grateful for the attention even if I don't sound like it. Vegas visitor counts are way down, and I am not so arrogant to believe that my stories of Vegas are always going to be of interest to people when they are coming here less often. So, thanks to everyone who took the time to reach out to me to request my opinion or thoughts about all things Vegas. I appreciate it. I also appreciate that the Movable Buffet was given one of the editor's choice awards for VegasTripping.com's annual Trippies as best blog.

I also appeared on the "Lunchtime with Ira" show and talked about covering Vegas. I seem to recall a lot of details about Teller of Penn & Teller that did not make my Weekly cover story on him.

For those of you interested in pets, I was recently on the Petcast discussing the death of my cat Stuart.

Then, this morning, I was on CNBC discussing the economics of the adult industry and its Vegas convention.

Of course, the oddest item written about me is the plan by Vegas Rex to kidnap and deprogram me. Ice Cube looked different when I met him.

Anyway, I want to thank everyone who has helped bring attention to Movable Buffet. And I hope I earn your continued readership in 2009. I also hope to make it to the gym more if all these pictures and this footage of me is going to be coming out.