If you line up a heap of dominoes and push one over, they all go down on each other.

That’s kind of how I think of singer Fats Domino, at least in how he got his name. But hey, he had fun while he was alive. He went down more times than Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper put together.

Speaking of Ritchie Valens, do you know how hard it is to contact celebrities?

I mean, it’s hard to contact Ritchie Valens now, but it’s even harder to contact Lou Diamond Phillips, the actor who played Ritchie Valens in the movie La Bamba.

I had a Mexican party recently, and wanted to invite LDP since he played Mexican Indian “Chavez y Chavez” in Young Guns II.

I set my internet hounds loose on the task of getting an email address, but the best anyone could come up with was a service (or fifty) that will “guarantee” a celebrity will get your message...for a fee.

So anyway, I couldn’t invite Lou Diamond Phillips in the end, but Lou, if you’re ever googling yourself and find this page, you have an open invite to any of my future parties.

They probably won’t have a Mexican theme, since tequila apparently makes me go violent enough to bash the pink bits off papier maché donkeys, but you’re an actor, so I’m sure you’ll cope with any setting, be it contemporary, historical, comical, dramatic, suspenseful or science fictional.

LDP should have been in Lord of the Rings. He would have made a great elf.