Woodland Hills- Having finished a chat with The Grand Vizier earlier in which we shared Maltese cigarettes and half a bottle of absinthe, I next went to Jerry’s Deli, sat at the bar, had some dinner and cracked a book.

My current read is about Skinny D’Amato, The 500 Club and the Rat Pack years in Atlantic City.

Next arrives a booming voice, hitting the room with the force of a sonic wave.

“Brutherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.”

It’s Wankus yelling this, and with him is Tyler Faith. On first glance, Ryan the bartender swears Faith is Cindy Margolis. He knows Cindy Margolis. Margolis has been in Jerry’s before, but it is not Cindy Margolis, obviously.

And Wankus, who looks nothing like Cindy Margolis at all, is wearing a Boston Red Sox baseball cap off to the side, the bill serving kind of like an awning for his right eyebrow- a fashion statement originally adopted by “Pee Wee” in the Our Gang Comedies.

Because it’s my birthday, Wankus tells Ryan my dinner’s on him. I tell Wankus had I known that, I would have ordered the New York strip. But it’s good to see Wankus. And the appearance of Ms. Faith is a bit of a jolt.

Wankus and Tyler are introduced to Karl the Birdman. The Birdman won this year’s Adultfyi football pool, the Birdman so deriving his name because he used to come into Jerry’s with a bird on his shoulder, the bird generally taking a white crap on his blue Hawaiian shirt. Then I believe someone complained about the birds.

Checking out the book, Faith tells me she would have loved to have grown up in the Rat Pack era and met Sinatra. With the way she gets around, no doubt she would have. Because it was probably the sexiest time in American pop culture, I tell her I feel the same way. Except I would have to casually remind Tyler that, statistically speaking, we both would have been dead by now if we had our wish. Wankus and I then share some grog, sing sea chanties and pirate songs.

Cameras flashing, Ryan, highly amused, notes that Wankus “is popping pictures like a Chinese tourist.”

“She really seems like a nice girl,” Karl later says of Faith. “She’s really together, funny and not like a lot of the morons you see in the business.”