I met Missi while shooting a kids film called Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker in England, just after I was married, about six years ago. She was so good as Mickey Rourke’s sidekick! We spent a nice bit of time together in the Isle of Man, and tons since. I have so much love for her - she is one of the funniest people I know – sincere, warm, and lovely too.
Anywho, Missi stayed at my house while I shot Gods Behaving Badly in NYC. She’s not a vegan, but she tried it while she stayed at my house, and she started a blog about her new, vegan adventure.
Here is the first entry:
Vegan Adventures in Wonderland
By Missi Pyle
I sold my Beachwood Canyon bungalow in LA and moved to Montana last year to make a family with a bear man in a geodome on 20 beautiful acres. I had high hopes. But my ovaries have not cooperated, and now I am close to broke. After eleven months of failing at trying to get acting jobs by putting myself on digital video with my flip camera, propped up on 2 end tables and a foot stool in the living room of said geodome, wearing nothing but my blue "business" suit jacket and underwear, and sending said video to my agent in LA via the satellite internet which, I think, is run by a team of oxen, i.e. it’s slow, I have decided I might need to move back to LA to get a job.
So, when my friend Alicia Silverstone, who is beyond lovely, one of the greatest famous people I know, really listens and is genuine, and a good friend, asked me if I wanted to move into her place while I look for a place and while she shoots a movie in NYC, I said, YES! She lives in a beautiful 2-story house with hard wood floors, a heated pool and at least a half acre of woodsy madness. It’s like Alicia in Wonderland.
Anyway. My little sister Meredith, who is 25, and a recent graduate of OCU in the masters musical theatre department, decided she wanted to move to LA to follow her dreams. So I, a recent graduate of getting the hell out of Los Angeles, have moved back to Los Angeles with my younger, skinnier, less bitter half sister, into Alicia's vegan home.
I am not a vegan.
I have always wanted to be a vegan. When I dine with Alicia, I eat vegan and choose not to wear my favorite calf length brown leather boots I've had resoled 3 times, and secretly hope we drive her Prius with the cloth seats, and not my vintage ‘06 Lexus with the grey again, leather, seats.
So, when I moved into her house last month with my little sister who practically grew up on a cattle farm, I asked her if she wanted to be vegan with me while we stay here and cook recipes from Alicia’s vegan cook book. She thought it sounded like a fun adventure. We are Pyles. We love adventure. So, here we go. On our vegan adventures in wonderland!
Stay tuned!
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Thank you Missi! This is part one – I’ll be posting part two soon!
More Guest Blogs:
Dr. Joel Fuhrman: Cruciferous Veggies
Christina Pirello: Agave, Oy Vey
Lea Michele: My Guilty Pleasure
