a contest entry

Include the following words:

Paris
Kids
Cullen
Loathing
Temple

2007: It was a contest in the Kube Hotel that was similar to the Kevin Bacon game.

I was nervously up at bat. I was one of the kids who was a huge fan of Shirley Temple and I adored Bill Cullen. I wore nostalgia better than Lady Gaga wore red meat.

I referenced a super bowl game, an old movie, and the quiz show host who loved trivia. But, I was eliminated because I referenced the wrong "Heidi."

Years later, I wrote about the weekend in a book called, "Fear and Loathing in Paris." The experience was one big knock-off.