For my good friend Matt’s birthday, a bunch of us went to an AMAZING spot downtown called The Cicada Club!

It was a night of great food, classic cocktails, old time-y music, swing dancing, Judy Garland and Bea Arthur impersonators and even a dance by the dancers from “Burn the Floor”!

We rounded out the night at the lounge upstairs and then a nightcap at the Biltmore Hotel.

Such a magical night!

Tim Conway Jr., radio legend and (oh nothing) close, personal friend of Randy and I, stopped by the Pretty Good Podcast to gossip about life and work and everything in between!

He also gave us 2 EXCELLENT plugs on his radio show which can be heard weeknights from 7-10pm on KFI am640 here in Los Angeles!

We’re huge fans of his and are honored to call him our friend.

One of our AMAZING podcast listeners invited us to the 9th annual Weho Awards at the Playboy Mansion and co-host Randy and I had a BLAST!

It was a drag-tastic night, complete with exotic birds, playboy pinball, risotto cakes, fine wine and great people! (The drive-on didn’t hurt either…)

I  can’t WAIT to go back…thank you, George Chung!!

xoxo

gg

I hope everyone rang in the New Year in a celebratory and meaningful way.  I had a wonderful night with good friends that ended in a drive home against a glowing Los Angeles sunrise.

(Quick preface - I am fully aware of the cliche that will ensue in the next paragraph)…

This new day/year/decade offers a symbollic new start to the perils of the last year/decade and a chance to reinvent and improve upon ourselves in the upcoming 365 days and beyond.

Much health, love, luck, success, and happiness to you in the 2010 and always…

xoxo

gina

After much consideration, I’ve decided to join the Twitter party.

“What’s the difference between being your Facebook friend and following you on Twitter?” you ask…

Well I can explain!

Facebook = things that I want to communicate to my friends in an interactive way.

Twitter = random thoughts and musings that I’d be too self conscious to say out loud, but would probably grab your elbow and mutter to you at a party.

So please do me a favor and “follow me”!

www.twitter.com/GinaGrad

I had a great time at the advanced screening of “Nine” at the DGA in Hollywood recently.  The movie was great…the words “beautiful” and “stylish” come to mind and what a cast!

Speaking of the cast, there was a Q&A afterwards with some pretty heavy hitters:

Choreographer Thommie Walsh, Director Rob Marshall, Stacey “Fergie” Ferguson, Penelope Cruz, and Nicole Kidman.

What a great time!

xoxo

gg

Our Podcast cluster raised a ton of money for our Thanksgiving Food Drive Fundraiser at The Draft bar and grill on Friday!

Randy Wang, Sam Phillips, Kerri Kasem, and and Ashley Marriot (just to name a few) all got together with Leo Quinones, “The Film Freak”, and partied, raffled, danced, and raised money for the LA Food Bank all night with help from our unbelievably supportive listeners!

We had an AMAZING turnout and can’t wait to do it again!!

**Meanwhile, we’re all going to be podcasting from the West LA Smart n’ Final THIS SUNDAY to raise even MORE money for the food drive…our goal is 100,000 pounds of food and we’re not stopping until we reach it!

Come down and see us!

Sunday, November 22, 2009
9AM – 9PM
Smart & Final
11211 W. Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (at the 405 Freeway)
We REALLY HOPE that you can come by with a few bucks or a few cans of food and jump on the mic with us!  The Pretty Good Podcast will start at 4pm, but there will be shows taping all day…COME ON DOWN!!

xoxo,

Gina

I was honored to be a guest with Marc Germain (formerly known as “Mr. KABC”) and Dina Losito on talkradioone.com last week!  We each brought articles to the “skype table” and read / commented on the wacky things that were going on that week.

Marc is so smart and Dina is so funny (smart too, of course!) and I had an absolute blast shootin’ the breeze with them.

To hear the segment, just go to talkradioone.com and scroll down to 10/15/09.  I am in the first half hour of the show…(unfortunately, my skpye cut out before I was able to give a proper goodbye), but Marc has already invited me back to fill in again…I’m so thrilled!

xoxo,

gina 

As co-host of the Pretty Good Podcast, I am excited to announce that Randy and I have just recorded our 100th show!  It seems like such a big number, but I guess when you do  something 5 days a week, the big 1-0-0 creeps up pretty fast!

Anywho, we had a very special hundredth episode that featured the likes of Adam Carolla, Tim ConwayJr. and Doug Steckler! Randy and I even produced a song from the musical “Chicago” as a sort of “bonus track” that features some of my favorite “impressions”.

Thanks to everyone who has supported us this far…and stay tuned…we’re going to have ANOTHER great surprise coming up really soon!

Gina’s “voices” present: The Cell Block Tango!

xoxo,

Gina

I was honored to be a guest on the “Gentleman’s Club Podcast with Hammer and Bacon” (episode #11) this week. Tim Hammer and Caleb Bacon are great guys and were really fun to talk to!  We talked about everything from youtube to food trucks to slotlationships!

My interview with the studs starts about 25 minutes in, but listen to the whole show because these are a couple of very smart, very witty guys.