I feel like a fucking idiot. You see I was supposed to meet Tony in the lobby at eight.  To go out with a bunch of people for pizza.  Now I’ve been going to the shrink for YEARS to learn how to be late.  You see nobody in L.A. gets ANYWHERE on time.  So, I […]

Bathrooms shouldn’t need manuals. If you want to shoot up, you want to fly through Chicago.  There the stalls have ceiling to floor stainless steel doors.  God, you’re afraid you’re going to asphyxiate there.  I’m used to about fifteen inches at the bottom, a few feet at the top, in case I can’t figure out […]

I kept thinking of the Kinks song…it took me ALL day and ALL of the night to get here! Where it’s raining.  Manchester being Manchester!  The Seattle of the U.K! Fascinating flight to  Chicago.  The woman sitting next to me was a Christian.  We read about this shit, but when you experience it it blows […]

1 It’s 91 degrees in Santa Monica today. Live in Southern California long enough and you forget that elsewhere the seasons change. That as I sit here writing this the leaves in Vermont might be already past their peak. Actually, there was a dusting of snow last week atop Mammoth Mountain, only three hundred miles […]