B-boy B-days

Slow week, what can I say? As the Sagittarius season ends today, I turned 37 on Tuesday and the wife treated me to dinner at La Cuisine in the posh 7th arrondissement. Random gifts: the complete 40 years of Rolling Stone magazine; an Amazon gift card; the first season DVD of Heroes (which I’ve never seen). I forget my age, I still feel… 31? Got my hair cornrowed. Sag Jay-Z and Beyoncé were in Paris weeks ago celebrating his 38th birthday. I hear Beyoncé took him out to L’Avenue for dinner and they caught the Crazy Horse cabaret show.

Still writing The Noir Album. President Sarkozy has a new girlfriend, model Carla Bruni, two months after getting divorced. Which is funny, because I joked with my wife two years ago that Sarko was spotted around town dating Naomi Campbell. Got a progress report real soon on my bum-rushing the comics industry. Singer Martina Topley-Bird’s people are lax filling me in on the release date to The Blue God, her next album produced by Danger Mouse. I’d love to run up to London and talk to her. (And where’s Tricky these days?)