When you’re in the shit and its deep enough you can’t see over the top and wide enough you can’t see around the sides. Every day I wake up in the shit and think it’s deeper than the shit everyone else is in. But it’s not. It’s the delusion of being in the shit. The [...]
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California is now in a state of emergency. The state government is issuing IOUs. This morning, the traffic lights along Wilshire Blvd (one of the longest and most trafficked streets in America) were out. High-speed traffic games at every intersection. Like Russian roulette with two-ton bullets. Imagine about three miles of one of Los Angeles’ [...]
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One fine day I hopped onto the 720, showed my pass and stepped into a wall of acrid stench. Several passengers were holding scarfs, handkerchiefs or just plain hands to cover their noses. The stench of unwashed bums often permeates the air of MTA buses, but this malodorous wave was far more intense. As I [...]
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That weather oh the glorious weather, a spring day with the sun warm on your face and a gentle wind nipping at your back to remind you of winter past. Not the dead dull heat of summer but a crisp embracing warmth not unlike coming home to the hearth after a cold day in the [...]
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I leave home early so I can go to the grocery store and buy my monthly bus pass. An MTA center is only a block from my apartment, but their hours are 9:00-5:00 – the same hours that everyone else is at work, so if Ralph’s doesn’t have the passes, I’m SOL. Ralph’s is sold [...]
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The conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune guides me today. If you walk slow enough you can slip free of spacetime and drift slightly into another dimension. I try to keep my eyes on Heaven but when you walk in the city you’ve got to keep your eyes forward, the dirty sidewalk at the bottom of [...]
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This morning I hopped off the 720 and headed into Literati Café to buy myself a muffin. It’s Santa Monica so they have nice, healthy blueberry bran muffins that aren’t loaded with sugar. I’m about to order my muffin when this Turkish-looking bastard in a suit steps in front of me. The staff at Literati [...]
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The down side of ritual is you have to do it all the time. A routine can be comforting and it can be dull to tears. The same thing over and over. Repeition dulls the wits. Variety sharpens the mind. Long days of summer are tedious like that, the sun omnipresent from morning til night, [...]
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The heat was mad today. Suddenly summer is upon us like a beast. What happened to spring? Wednesay it was so cold I wore layers and still got a chill in Santa Monica. Then Thursday it was hot, the sun burning and ripping at the eyes. Friday reminded me that the desert is only a [...]
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
All cities are mad, but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim. –Christopher Morley
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