Two Brazilian guys showed up on my porch yesterday morning. They proceeded to crawl all over my house, make a huge racket, and throw stuff into the yard. They were supposed to do that. They also broke one of my windows, which they were not supposed to do. It was totally an accident, I get …
A guy with a ferret. The ferret is curious and friendly and wears a red harness. The guy flirts with the West 5 booth girl. It seems to be going well. A band named Awesome and yeah, they are, kind of, in a perfect nerdy way. Swell harmonies, funny, weird lyrics about shapes and numbers …
At first, I think it’s a truck slowly rolling down the hill past my house, a container or trailer rattling on the back. I get out of bed and peek between the blinds and right then, there’s a blinding flash. I imagine two guys on roller skates in work overalls. They’re flying past my house, …
A few days ago I stepped out into the backyard and the smell of the ocean was overwhelming. That day, the wind started to blow, hard, whipping up white caps on the Sound. The temperature started to rise, too and it’s been hot and windy since. All of a sudden we’re LA, even out by …
My dear friend Bike Nerd was not always a bike obsessed fiend. When I met him, he had a borrowed bike and couldn’t change a tire. I was the one with the crazy odometer count and the mad roadside skillz. Bike Nerd called me Bike Girl! as though I was some kind of superhero in …
Modern art can be tricky even at its best – it can be snobby and inscrutable and intolerably highbrow and, well, annoying. But today at the Olympic Sculpture Park, a young woman walking around in the Richard Serra sculpture said this: “This must be what it feels like to be a fish!” It’s nice to …