Stan Lerner's Blog, page 4

THE IRON GATE INN

Those who travel know this truth: there a few spots on earth that one comes across during his or her journey, that are their own—a vortex, if you will, to a better mindset, an inner peace, a higher existence. And then there are spots that encompass all of the aforementioned, but are not just unique [...]

EASTSIDE CHIPPERY THE FINAL CHAPTER

As I sit in one of my favorite coffee houses, somewhere in a small town in Kansas, my mind drifts to the last year in which I performed my services as Chef Stan, The Iron Chef, of Montebello's Eastside Chippery. Of all the roles I have played, master criminal, art dealer, visual artist, night club [...]

THE STATE OF THE UNION

Friends, After writing eight books, ten movies, two Vegas shows, a dinner show, a television series, four hundred blogs and one famous poem over a ten-year period, I concluded it might be time to pause—drive around the country, do some cooking (I've been cooking and doing dishes at a restaurant in Montebello known as the [...]

EASTSIDE CHIPPERY PART II

The challenge of writing a blog about one's own enterprise is the temptation to self-promote, or, to express grievances perhaps best not codified in the written word. In my blog Eastside Chippery Part One I admit to some self-promotion, but for the most part feel that the conversation managed to stay solidly focused on the [...]

EASTSIDE CHIPPERY STORY PART 1

So it's been a few months since I've written a blog, interesting given that I'm a writer or more accurately, a storyteller. And when I think of what I do as storytelling I tell myself that I've been hard at work, because there are many ways to tell a story… Background: After driving around the [...]

GET THE RIGHT GUY

Foreword by Stan Lerner: WARNING FOR WOMEN READERS  if you want to spend your life alone or enjoy unfulfilling going nowhere relationships this blog is not for you. If on the other hand you want a real man, that knows how to treat a woman to share your life with, read away!!!
Get The Right Guy
Introduction
Ladies, [...:]

MONTEBELLO PARTY

There's a sleepy, perfect little town just eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles and it's called Montebello. My very being was crafted from it's rich, fertile soil, water, and air—for this bad boy the party started at Beverly Hospital, where a nurse gave me my first gulps of libation, from a bottle, not a [...:]

iPAD—FINALLY ALL OF MY BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE ON iPAD

Let me get this out of the way, right up front…BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!! Finally, all of my books, Stan Lerner's Criminal, In Development, Get Chicks 101, Get The Right Guy, Impact, Ninety Nine Post, and Blast are available in Apple's iBookstore for iPad…There, fifteen years of work summed up in one sentence. But I wouldn't be [...:]

IPAD—FINALLY ALL OF MY BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE ON IPAD

Let me get this out of the way, right up front…BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!! Finally, all of my books, Stan Lerner's Criminal, In Development, Get Chicks 101, Get The Right Guy, Impact, Ninety Nine Post, and Blast are available in Apple's IBookstore for IPad…There, fifteen years of work summed up in one sentence. But I wouldn't be [...:]

Get Chicks 101

Foreword by Stan Lerner: I'll keep this simple, while "Stan Lerner's Criminal" wins the big awards, "Get Chicks 101″ tops the ebook download charts. I wrote this work as a satire of self-help books and somehow managed to give the best relationship advice ever given–go figure. Anyway, read this blog sample of the work and [...:]