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This sweatshop up the street has what looks like a hundred or more sewing machines. Whatever they sew there always seems to be blue fabric. The cracks in the sidewalks there are tinted blue form the dust. Today it was windy and there were three guys outside sweeping up piles of blue fabric shards each…

I take the bus to my office most days. It is a twenty minute ride and is usually uneventful. Today was filled with all of the events that had not occurred on the other days. A red bus goes by as I leave the house. Red busses only stop at main streets. They avoid lots…

So near my office there is an older art deco building, it is an historic monument and today the film crew trucks were all around and extras and actors mingling about in 1920s garb. Walked past this and on the corner there is white burlap sandbags and rock salt on the curbs and New York…

Someone asked if I really saw Courtney Love strip at Jumbo’s Clown Room in 1989 and yes, I did, so here is the story as best as I can recollect it. I had been to Jumbo’s one other time prior to this, it is an odd little place in a mini-mall in Hollywood, maybe it…

We walk our dogs along an industrial route. I drove it in the car and it is exactly two miles. Our dogs could really hurt a person if they went on the attack so we walk them through Vernon because there are no people in Vernon (you can look it up – in the middle…

Whitey Carlson passed away a week ago. He founded the Brewery Art Colony along with his two sons. The day I walked into the Brewery Office to sign a lease I was wearing a tee-shirt I bought at a thrift store and it had a cover of the Saturday Evening Post painted by Norman Rockwell.…