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Senior Citizen First Date

// July 2nd, 2010 // 7 Comments » // I Love LA.

I was at the Coffee Bean on Wilshire and Vermont in Los Angeles yesterday trying to write my book when I inadvertently and advertently overheard two senior citizens on their first date.  They’d met on Match.com.  Hilarity ensued.  Here’s my video about yesterday that Stan shot on my iPhone.

The Bearded Lady on Wilshire Boulevard

// February 5th, 2010 // 9 Comments » // LA Done Me Wrong

Where did the time go?  We’re in the 2nd month of the year of our lord, 2010.  Right here, right now in Los Angeles.  I’m the oldest and wisest I’ve ever been in my whole entire life.  Just like every single person in the world.  It’s the laws of nature at work.  Well, oldest for sure.  Although wisest… perhaps. 

It’s quite possible that not everyone is at their wisest.  Like the bearded lady who lives at the end of our block on Wilshire Boulevard.  She has a very thick white beard.  She scrounges for food in the trash cans outside the many tall office buildings that line Wilshire, office people, students, random junkies coming and going.  Clearly, she’s homeless.  My brother and I have seen here several times when we drive by.  When we return on foot she’s gone.  Otherwise I’d offer her some sort of food in exchange for hearing her beard story.  Like how did it happen.  When did  she let herself go?  I’d like to hear that she at some point of her life was wiser than she is now, maybe had a home here in Los Angeles to live in, shaved her beard consistently and had some semblance of a normal life.  Like me… 

I’m off to pluck my chin hairs now.  All girls get them, by the way.  Some just get them thicker than others.

P.S.  Following this blog, my older, wiser friend Brandon emailed me
“This country didn’t have Homeless on this scale until Ronal Reagan.
I was overseas for most of his first term.
When I came back, I didn’t recognize my Country.”