The Book Mark in Atlantic Beach recently hosted Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini and Beach Music, for a book signing of his latest novel, South of Broad. Apparently, more than 300 fans came out to the store to get their books signed and meet Conroy and he stayed until every last one was signed, which was past midnight (he must have been hopped up on Coke Zero). Fortunately, he was staying at One Ocean Resort right around the corner.

Note to Pat: I'm a big fan of yours. In fact, The Lords of Discipline is one of my favorite books of all time. I am not, however, an admirer of your massive combover.

Jaguars' defensive end Reggie Hayward just posted this on Twitter (yes, I know it's "tweeted"):

Now isn't that a interesting tidbit of info?

Rapper Juvenile was at Square One in San Marco Monday night. He was at the club for a meet and greet and decided to back his azz up to the mic and do an impromptu concert.

I heard he drank Moët & Chandon Rosé and Hennessy Cognac while hanging out in the VIP area and was "really nice ... and not very tall."

Clearly, I have no aspirations of becoming a model (super or otherwise), but that didn't stop me from attending Integrity Model Management's photo posing seminar led by America's Next Top Model cycle 10 winner Whitney Thompson.

While the main purpose of the event was to teach aspiring models how to find their light, work their jawline and, of course, smize (that's "smiling with your eyes" for you non-ANTM fans), Thompson also shared some gossip about the show and some stories about her own modeling career like the fact that she doesn't stay in touch with any of the girls from her season (Thompson's BFF from the show Anya, for example, wasn't thrilled with coming in second and changed her name, dyed her hair and moved to Hong Kong) and a how a former manager tried to make her lose weight by forcing her to run on a treadmill until she threw up.

Judging from this photo where I look like I'm missing half of my arm, I need a remedial posing seminar.

Judging from the comments I got in response to my Facebook post looking for photos from Mike Huckabee's recent appearance in Jacksonville, nobody is going to care about this blog post. Nevertheless, I'm sharing the scoop I got from the event anyway.

I heard the the former governor of Arkansas and one-time Presidential candidate along with his crew of seven arrived at Borders via a custom bus with his "giant face plastered all over it." According to my source, Huckabee was "very, very nice" and quite accommodating to the folks at the book signing, chatting and taking photos and videos with them. His only requests were water, Diet Coke and a 700-mile border fence.

Note: The photo of Huckabee and Tyra Banks has nothing to do with the post other than to be a perfect segue into the next one.