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Everything Old Is Me Again
If you live in our fair city, you’ve seen Hollywood production crews on location sometimes around town. One recent morning, I’m sipping a triple espresso on ice outside Sweet Lady Jane Café & Bakery when a guy – sunglasses dangling on vest – appears at my table saying: “You’re in my shot.” I see lights […]
The Bathtub Treatment
This all starts just before Christmas 2018 when my landlord (you know no story beginning with “my landlord” is heading anywhere good) leaves a note slapped on my apartment door: workmen are coming to take away my bathtub on December 27. I think, this is absurd. Right?
Treeless in Santa Monica
Just before the turn of the century – the previous century – a large white house was constructed, “Queen Anne” style, on the corner of Third and Marine in Ocean Park at the southern end of Santa Monica, Calif. You can actually see a photograph of it on the back wall of the Omelet Parlor […]
