Category Archives: My Daily Life

Periphery

A colleague of mine, a friend I worked with side by side, a person on my periphery of knowledge, on the periphery of things and people I know in this world, died on Friday the day after Thanksgiving. I didn’t … Continue reading

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The Shirts You Wear

The body is not even cold and the opportunistic, profiteering vultures have swooped in to pick at his corpse. Almost as if this is their mentality: Bowie is dead so now how can I exploit this opportunity for my gain? … Continue reading

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OLD PUNK ROCKERS NEVER DIE AND I WISH THEY WOULD

This evening I took the redline into DTLA at the invite of a friend. From the moment I walked in she was on her cell phone. Whatever. I don’t care. I’m tired at staring at my four walls so I … Continue reading

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The Snee Poets

Going through the two dozen or so banker’s boxes in the back of my storage closet has only served to remind me how much University work I’ve done which I have then consequently forgotten. Four boxes full of essays, essays … Continue reading

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#JeSuisCharlie #JeSuisAhmed

Regardless where you fall in the political spectrum a troubling trend is beginning to appear in the media where the cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo are being focused on as a possible reason behind the terrorist attacks. Most of the … Continue reading

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Timecoded Tragedy

This first world tragedy happened between the hours of 6pm and 7:15pm and unfolded something like this: 18:00- left the abode. I am headed to Crossroads in Studio City because I need a new-for-me used and cheap rain jacket since … Continue reading

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This Fatuous Existence

June 18th, 2013, today was a trying day. The kind of day which begins pleasantly enough, waking up to the wonderful morning shrilling sounds of leaf blowers, 6am lawnmowers, LA traffic, a plethora of garbage trucks backing up all over … Continue reading

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Kirk Douglas, Rededicated

Yesterday, a very interesting day. I made plans to go with Nick Coviello, Denzel Whitaker, Eric Lawson, and Leslie Maryann Neal to go see what may very well have been the last appearance of Kirk Douglas at any celebrity event. … Continue reading

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The Enigma of the 16th Floor Elevators

Okay. So I travel to downtown Los Angeles to attend a meeting with a “name” well-connected film industry producer. DOWNTOWN I can’t find parking under 20 dollars for the day or 8 dollars an hour. Since I don’t know how … Continue reading

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Off Kilter

What an off kilter morning so far. I woke up to my neighbors hanging up something on their wall at 7:30 in the morning, bang bang bang bang. Never mind that they go ballistic if I sneeze in my apartment … Continue reading

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