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Getting a head start on moving was made easier with with Trader Joe’s being so amazing in giving loads of boxes.  In Los Angeles, I called the Trader Joe’s on La Brea and they put boxes aside for me.

In Koreatown

I live in the ghetto right now. Not the word ghetto as it was originally used in Venice to describe the area where Jews were compelled to live. That was ghetto for real. But I do live in the ghetto as is now described as an overcrowded urban area often associated with a specific [...]

I colored my hair bright red and now I look like Ariel. Not on purpose. I was walking through the cute Los Angeles Koreatown Korean shops on Vermont and Wilshire near the Coffee Bean where I get a lot of writing done and I saw Davinci haircolor which is some brand I didn’t know [...]

Shocking to me when I first moved out here to Los Angeles, was the prevalence of apartments without washers and dryers. Sure, a bunch of apartments have a washer and dryer on the premises and there are dozens of laundromats within easy driving range, allegedly. But seriously to not have a washer and dryer in [...]

I conned my friend Rose into an “All You Can Drink” Boba and smoothie outing.

Our brother Jon left Los Angeles a month ago and Richard and myself got a new roommate, who I’ll refer to as Mark.  Mark’s a good guy but generally he speaks in a speed mumble, stream of consciousness manner.  “So Um Yaah like I went to the store you know there are a lot of [...]

My friends Tom and Shane work for a pet crematory.  Pets in Los Angeles die, pets in Los Angeles need to be cremated.  Tom and Shane help make that happen.  It’s a small, peculiar niche, yet a booming business rife with comedic stories I’m happy to hear every time we hang out. 
 
Tom and Shane are [...]

Last Wednesday ‘Cold Case’ was filming outside our Koreatown apartment.  A notice had been posted above our mailboxes reading “Dear Neighbors, Warner Bros. Television Productions Inc. is filming its seventh season of the hit drama ‘Cold Case.”  Blah blah.
 
It didn’t bother me none.  My housemates who I’ll call Frederick and Jon weren’t too thrilled.  “Why!?”  [...]

After the trip to Vons we arrived back at our Los Angeles, Koreatown home and into our freezing cold apartment which happily now had electricity.  “Let’s turn on the heater and put on a pizza and some hot tea!”  That sounded like a splendid and brilliant plan so we did just that.  Then BAM!  Darkness [...]

In my apartment in Koreatown, the kids who live above us make a ton of racket leaping from their beds onto our ceiling like Kangaroos.  That’s what it sounds like, anyway.  Actually it sounds more like hippos or elephants.  There’s running, jumping, leaping, skipping.  The noise bothers the crap out of my other housemates.  Not [...]