<DIV><p>Here&rsquo;s the diary of a man who in mid-life found himself uprooted and dumped into West Hollywood, an unfamiliar place not exactly known for stability. White explores his neighborhood ? &ldquo;queens: 6 percent; cranky 70-year-old Russians who give you the evil eye when you walk past: 2 percent; blonde girls with big, round, hard fakeys who think Jennifer Anniston just got lucky: 10 percent; miscellaneous cool kids, hustlers, and actual crazy people: 5 percent.&rdquo;</p> <p>White gets gigs as a freelance writer, goes to the grocery store where his Russian neighbors ask him questions because they think he&rsquo;s from the old country; and encounters Sara Gilbert at the Laundromat, Leonard Maltin at the movies, and Ben Affleck driving a Rolls-Royce so ridiculously conspicuous he might as well be driving Chitty-Chitty, Bang-Bang.</p> <p>What began as weekly diaries emailed to out-of-state family and friends evolved into a blog called &ldquo;Dave White Knows&rdquo; and in 2003 became a monthly column in <i>Instinct </i>called &ldquo;Exile in Guyville.&rdquo; Alyson Books now presents White&rsquo;s blogs in expanded form with loads of new material that will be even more irritating to the <i>Instinct </i>readers who didn&rsquo;t like his column. &ldquo;They requested more fashion and skin-care features in its place, which makes me kind of proud.&rdquo;</p> <p><b>Dave White</b> is a freelance journalist specializing in music. His reviews and features have been seen in E! Online, IFILM, <i>LA Weekly</i>, <i>Dallas Observer</i>, <i>Instinct</i>, <i>The Advocate</i>, <i>Glue</i>, <i>Cybersocket</i>, <i>Total Movie</i>, <i>Unzipped</i>, and <i>Frontiers</i>. White lives in West Hollywood with his boyfriend, the Morocco Mole, and is locally esteemed as the &ldquo;King of Pancakes.&rdquo;</p></DIV>