Being 40 doesn't feel especially old.When you are: Discovering strippers, working at internet companies.Emptying parents' antique-filled house, staying with the millionaire Aunt.Partying on Mulholland, visiting the Four Seasons, looking at lingerie photosGoing on dates with strippersTrying to stay alive in the e-commerce world.Building a ten-foot sculpture of a great white shark Turning Forty, a dramatic account written over one year of hanging out and drinking coffee at a formerly legendary cafe, the purple-lit Bourgeois Pig in Hollywood. The inside story of life and style of a displaced New Yorker. Keen views at a Hollywood Cafe from the author as he turns forty. A planetary and space scientist sits in a purple-lit café, observing human nature. A window of sites, strange and unique.There is an Oprah interview with details.A visit to the Malibu Colony.Master's degree in Marriage and Family Counseling from Antioch University.Swimming in the Hunter S. Thompson poolDating a Hollywood stripper. Then, after getting fired from a daytime TV show, He decides to build a shark. This could be seen as a metaphor for life. Some people might say madness--but no, just an artist having fun-stories from the clinic. One of the therapists was locked in the room.Cleaning an antique-infested apartment in Queens