It’s been awhile since I’ve checked in with a progress report on the four avocado seeds we began nurturing back in August. While I’m sad to report the demise of the slowest-growing one that fell victim to Ranger who de-potted it after we potted it and moved it outside, the other three are all moving …
What is this about? Drinking Buddy Salvador was from El Salvador and yes, that was his name and yes, that’s where he was from. I met him when I was living in Hollywood with my mom in 1977. We both delivered newspapers for the Herald Examiner back then. His paper route was adjacent to mine. …
What is this about? Cemetery Heads West Samuel Hornblow Jones rolled to his right away from the dying embers of the campfire even before he’d come full awake. Coming up crouched in the sand on one knee, lightning reflexes led his left hand to skin his Colt .44 even before his eyes had opened onto …
Several of the IAAL•MAF faithful gathered tonight at LaFayette Park for a chilly bike ride over to the recently opened Indulge Cafe at Pico and Redondo whose proprietors ran the dearly departed Mo’ Better Meatty Meat Burger stand. Though I never got the chance to sample their wares, if the fabulous burger (above) and The …
One of the residual effects of a prolonged storm in Los Angeles is that the wildlife, forced to take an elongated refuge from the rain, emerges post-precipitation a bit famished and perhaps somewhat cabin fevered and therefore a little more bold, daring and easily spotted. Case in point: Walking the dogs at 5 a.m. this …
What is this about? Saturday Night Special The gun was originally my wife’s. Now my ex. Now my dead ex. Hit by a bus of all things one afternoon leaving the Central Library downtown. Now the place is called the Richard Riordan Central Library in honor of a couple of mayors ago, and that’s always …