In the bungalow next to me is Caroline and Chris. Their best friend, Jen, is there most of the time. They like to write on our wall in chalk. Our landlord, who I will call LANDLORD, does not like this. We don’t care what LANDLORD likes, and now we all make an effort to [...]
My condo is rad. I didn’t know people were saying rad, but Eduardo at the Office Depot (did I get your name right?) tells me it has made a comeback. He’s eighteen, so either he knows or he was messing with me. I’ve had students use slang words, then repeated them (trying to be cool), [...]
I’m on my way to Book Soup on Sunset Boulevard to see a reading by an author named Malina Saval. She is an cool woman. My movie agent, who is also her movie agent, invited me. He represents many fiction writers. Yup, I’m that Hollywood. I can drop names. I can talk about my movie [...]
I love my neighborhood. I live in East Hollywood, right between Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards. When I stand at the end of my block, I can see the Hollywood sign nestled in the hills above me. On some days, it is bathed in fog. It looks just like in the movies. Okay, I know in [...]
