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September 30, 2006
For the last year, the City of L.A. has been developing an aggressive master plan for our notorious 51-mile Grand Sewer. Imagine turning L.A.'s ultimate symbol of Everything Gone Wrong into a long greenway. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 29, 2006
The Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip ranks high on my children’s list of cool L.A. literary sites. It’s not... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
First day of classes yesterday at UCLA and the place was packed. I've been doing some research on campus, learning... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 28, 2006
"Getty Underground" is an in-house art show of work by museum employees — from curators to receptionists. They do it every two years, but only staffers and selected visitors ever get to see it. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 26, 2006
(Written in American Airlines security waiting line at LAX) Here I sit, watching X-rays of your suitcase for six twenty-five... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 25, 2006
So I went to the Lion's Club flea market in Malibu yesterday and the tiara I've been rendezvousing with for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 21, 2006
Okay, okay. I haven’t contributed anything to these electronic pages for weeks. Truth be told I’ve been editing my latest... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Sometimes you have to face your fears. That’s why I took my bad old self down to Vroman’s in Pasadena... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 16, 2006
This is a great time to be living in California. With less than two months before the election, we’re about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 13, 2006
Reading the strange Internet saga of Lonelygirl15, I was immediately struck by how closely the real-life story resembled a major plot thread in William Gibson’s latest novel "Pattern Recognition." $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 10, 2006
Tonight, trying to decide whether to watch the start of the ABC docudrama or the end of the Manning Brothers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Ever since I lived in New Mexico, I have admired tarantulas. They have shape and heft and maybe it's all... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 08, 2006
For once I can recommend a fact-based melodrama that doesn’t have to dip into cornball fiction. The film is called... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 06, 2006
As someone who writes often about nature in Los Angeles, I have a few favorite spots where I like to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
My daughter ran into the house the other night screaming that there was a tarantula on an outside window near... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 03, 2006
In 1938, my then fifteen year old mother and her mother fled Vienna a step ahead of the Nazis, and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
September 01, 2006
As editor of a short story anthology called “Los Angeles Noir” that’s due out in April 2007, I’ve been forced... $MTEntryExcerpt$>