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Around Memorial Day, everyone on the show visited at psychic to get a reading for the summer.  The purpose was to have a ‘psych-off’ and see which of the psychics were most accurate.

I visited with Natalie Tomlinson (via phone) who told me some strangely accurate things.  Among other things, she predicted my involvement in Usher’s Camp New Look (I got the call later that week to emcee their closing ceremonies) and a trip to Vegas that wasn’t even on the radar.  She also predicted that a friend of mine would have a fire.  Listen:

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Now, read this news story about the Hard Rock hotel in Las Vegas:

… hundreds of Hard Rock Casino guests left in disbelief Sunday afternoon after abruptly being escorted outside.

“It was tense,” says hotel patron Ken Baker. “You could see the concern in everybody’s eyes – let’s get out, let’s get out.”

That cause for alarm came from a fire that broke out inside an air conditioning unit mounted above the second floor roof. The unit sits just above one of the hotel’s restaurants.

“We smelled the smoke,” hotel patron Wendell Moton recalls. “We just rushed out and stayed on the side.

Clark County Fire Department Battalion Chief John Klassen says flaming debris fell between two walls standing among old and new construction areas, forcing crews to tear into part of the structure.

“(Putting out the fire was) a little trickier than walking up and spraying water on the second floor roof,” he explained.

This fire occured about 3 hours after I checked out!

Is this what Natalie predicted?  Or should my friends continue to be paranoid that they will be the fire victim she saw?  Comment below …

If you are interested in Natalie’s work, you can visit her online right here.

Pixie Lott covers Use Somebody.

Jess and I were in Vegas for a few nights with some great friends.  The excuse reason for going was to see Collective Soul at the Hard Rock on Friday night, but mathematically that covered a bit less than 3% of the time we were there.  We had to find other things to fill our time.

Permission slips were collected from the following for this field trip:

• myself
• Jessica
• Richie Arpino: hairdresser / photographer / man-about-town
• Mitchell Anderson: actor / chef / keeper of man-about-town
• George McKerrow: poker champion and bison wrangler
• Cari Jelinek: tweeter
• Joe Sagona: who almost missed the trip, due to his career and other grown-up things
• Ben Deignan: rocker / humper of things
• Bowe O’Brien: manager of rocker-humpers

We arrived at different times, we stayed at different places, we went non-stop.  I vote for making it an annual event.

Rest of the pics are here, if you are so inclined.  I really do love Vegas and all that it stands for.

This will be one of my favorite pictures of 2009, I think.

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Ah, the joys of childhood baseball.  Outdoors, best friends, soft-serve ice cream after the game, and Daddy grabbing a bat to get all Goodfellas on the opposing team’s manager.

America’s past-time, indeed.  Proudly.

This video might change your thinking that ‘I can send that quick text from the car.  No worries!’  Warning: It’s graphic!

This guy inspires me to be more comfortable when I’m on any sort of stage … both professionally and personally.

Haven’t decided yet if this is for real or not.  But it’s fun to watch.