Archive for January, 2009
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Lost World
I took AH for her very first visit into Topanga Canyon today. Topanga is like the lost world of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles is pretty much a city city, but Topanga is its heart of darkness. There is nothing but twisty canyon roads, hidden homes and survivalist colonies. It’s off the very beaten track. We were […]
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
Broken Record But We Are Not LOST
Perhaps I write this blog using too many television analogies, but if the literary world is loosing its hold on recognized allusions, then who am I to be a Sisyphus? The LOST premiere was last week, and in the opening episodes, the audience was told by one Daniel Faraday that the LOST island was lost […]
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Dependence and Desire
As one of the most iconic plays in the American and modern literary canon, I was surprised to learn that A Streetcar Named Desire hadn’t been shown on stage in Los Angeles for 20 or so years. It seems that the William estate does not allow many productions of the play, and I was suddenly […]
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Oh Book Where Art Thou?
For reasons that I shall never divulge to any living person (unless I do and probably shall do without hesitation), I had to come into possession of a book by Sunday, January 18. But here were the problems: 1) I didn’t know I needed the book until January 13. 2) I, for said reasons given above, couldn’t […]
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Staying In
AH was over last night, and instead of being Angelenos and going out to eat, we stayed in and experimented with the contents of my fridge. Overall, I have to give us a very satisfactory A+. And I felt like I had to work a bit as AH had filled me up with homemade goodness […]
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Shelby
After a long day of being flooded with work, Shelby’s head popped out of the waters like a mountaintop. The sea of work was being drained away, since it was already 6pm and it was time to go home. Emerging from the sea foams of forms she discovered that her hand and turned into […]
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Where have all the Tree Cowboys gone?
I was on my way to see my papou (grandfather in Greek), and for some reason I kept it on KCRW, listening to a broadcast of Santa Monica’s Council meeting. The meeting was about the Tree Crisis that had the whole town in a dispute over what to do with the dying Ficus the city […]
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Upgraded
Four years ago, I was in a Best Buy at the Westminster Mall in Huntington Beach, buying a Hewlett Packard laptop. Four years later, my laptop had undergone international travel several times, two harddrive meltdowns and a burned-out backlight. Because of the last item on the list, my poor HP was officially declared deceased by […]