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Today’s Uber Ride.
Today’s Uber ride starred Anthony, formerly of Spanish Harlem, who picked me up at a neighbor’s house in his gray Toyota Prius on Hamlin St. for the 35-minute pool ride to Studio City. A friendly, chatty, 40-year-old New Yorker in dreadlocks, he started off by ignoring an incoming phone call from “my best friend” who…
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The Perfect House
In early 1993, I was visiting Larry and Kay, who lived in a beautiful home in Woodland Hills, south of Ventura, of course. They were around the corner from the last large orange grove in the San Fernando Valley. They were Hollywood people, who had moved out to the SFV, in the late 1960s, from Michigan. …
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Panorama of Possibilities.
Down on the streets, LA is a mess, a tent city of encampments, trash, shopping carts, RVs and civic disorder. But on the way up the trail to Griffith Observatory, the city assumes its old panorama of possibilities. Filtered out of these photographs are the humans and their rulers who make this city so perplexing.…
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Needed: Slow Paced, Dreamy, Moody Worker
We are looking for a slow-paced, day-dreaming, moody worker who does not have it all together, and cannot define themselves in a single sentence. The atmosphere in our company is relaxed, courteous, clean, casual but introspective. There is jazz or classical music playing, and the bosses trust you to execute work without them losing their…
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The Trump Re-Election Campaign in Los Angeles.
On foot to LA Fitness on Sepulveda this morning, I passed Wendy’s near Erwin. It was about 7:30 AM, and the restaurant wasn’t opened yet. There were no cars in the takeout lane. But there, in the alley, sitting along the curb, across from the takeout window, was an old woman squatting and peeing. Her…
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Last Night I Left My Smart Phone at Home. And it was Glorious.
Last night, I did something quite daring. I left my smart phone at home, intentionally, and it was frightfully glorious to go out, un-tethered. I felt guilty, as if I were doing something quite illicit, not certain if I were violating the law, or taking advantage of my own autonomy by robbing tech companies, influencers,…
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