Archive for 2026/04


Medical Update

1 I’m kinda numb. That’s where medical uncertainty will leave you. Bottom line… It’s an infection, inflammation or bladder cancer. As for discovering which it is, that’s what the following screed is about. I went to UCLA Medical Center a week ago today, to Clark Urology. You may have doctors as good in your neck […]

Anajak Thai

Anajak: https://www.anajakthai.com What kind of crazy, f*cked up world do we live in where the best Thai restaurant in Los Angeles is in the San Fernando Valley? You’ve got to know, the Valley used to be the pits. Maybe you could be from there, but you certainly didn’t want to live there in the seventies, […]

Switchboard Susan

“I’m a long distance romancer I keep trying ’til I get an answer Gimme gimme one more chance She’s a greater little operator” I didn’t know it was written by Mickey Jupp! So I was reading today’s “Los Angeles Times” and there was an interview with Nick Lowe. Wherein he said he never wanted to […]

Anybody Can Get Publicity

We are all looking to make it. And we employ signifiers, status markers, to indicate that we’ve crossed the threshold, that we are no longer trapped amongst the great unwashed, that finally we are SOMEBODY! And one of the main ways you felt settled, that you were not only on your way, but part of […]