Tag: L.A.
George Howard Communicates With The Bass
UNITED STATES—When googling the name “George Howard,” the outcome isn’t one of simplicity, because there are many George Howards. A saxophonist will surface, a...
Still Sitting (I Make My Stand)
HOLLYWOOD—On a Friday in the spring 2016, after being away for several days, I encountered a group gathered around the bar, glummer than usual....
Color It Gone
UNITED STATES—When I began this memoir I drove down by U.S.C. one tropical afternoon to visit Librería Azteca to see if I’d left anything...
Moving On
UNITED STATES—It was a Monday of the New Year, the same foggy day that the sheriffs and also Jim Wylie’s muscle came (in case...
Grand Finale
UNITED STATES—The filmmaker Everett Lewis with whom I was collaborating on “The Strawberry Butterfly” used to peer down and say “yep yep yep” when...
A Funny Thing Happened At The Bank
UNITED STATES—As 1991 matured from spring to autumn, Ahmet, the Turkish husband of Dee had his second job in Santa Monica, in addition to...
The Commute
UNITED STATES—It was Wednesday, March 8, this year of our technological god, and my alarm clock, which is my phone, went off at the...
Regrets
UNITED STATES—Regrets, I’ve had a few, but not too few to mention.
In fact, regret has been a dynamic force for change and improvement. I...
A Bright And Guilty Place
UNITED STATES—The sun can, at times, be so raw and unforgiving, it can give you a toothache. And the survivors of the dreams and...
More War And Love
UNITED STATES—A kid in South Los Angeles saying with no particular somberness, sidelit by a TV set, “The war will start in 18 minutes,”...
Love And War
UNITED STATES—Crazy thing. One of the residents of Manhattan Place recognized a woman who’d left a deposit on a room I had shown. The...
Budding Cynicism
UNITED STATES—In the spring of 1990, a new crown jewel became part of the budding Wylie empire. A real estate woman Jim Wylie knew...
Decision
UNITED STATES—That fall and winter at Estrella Avenue I endured penuries that I hoped were behind me for good, such as living on ten...
Sea-Change
UNITED STATES—The Jones moved in. They were the picture of happiness. The young couple who had been wed in Las Vegas got Mac’s recently...
Quick Comeback
UNITED STATES—The memoirist must always make a choice, to be didactic and distill lessons or to tell the story. Here I will pause to...
Aftershocks
UNITED STATES—I had no time to worry about the earthquake in Watsonville. Everything seemed to be falling apart at the house I was managing....
Car Washing In Malibu
UNITED STATES—Two British girls traveling in Los Angeles had met the poet Eric on a bus on his way home from the law office....
