December 2010
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Last year, I saw a fish and chips shop in London called A Salt and Battery.
I’m thinking about London because it’s been raining for four straight days in Los Angeles.
Because it’s been raining for four straight days, I’m also thinking about an often fantasized-about trip to Belize I’ve planned and not taken about three times for reasons ranging from financial to...
The other day I was running out of downtown through the 2nd Street tunnel, which isn’t the most picturesque way to get to Echo Park but it is the most efficient. You bypass three blocks’ worth of traffic lights and also the hills on 1st and 5th Streets. You can go under the bifurcated Grand Street or over it and I usually choose under, because hills are reserved for those special days...
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It took a little while for this to grow on me. But...
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False Positive
“Try to pinpoint the exact moment you fall asleep. Try to pinpoint the exact moment you lose control over your thoughts. You can’t,” he told me, triumphant. I didn’t think the declaration merited such pride, the smug half grin on his face, the tipping back of his chair so that he balanced on its hind legs. No one was arguing that a loss of consciousness was, in fact, a conscious decision. But he...
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I received a criticism recently that a male character I wrote didn’t sound particularly masculine.
Independent of that, I read something that analyzed male and female speech patterns that noted that women use more qualifiers - more maybes, mights, little bits, possiblys, sort ofs.
So I went through that draft and removed almost all that character’s maybes, mights, little bits,...
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Turns out “just pretend you’re not sick and resume your normal running mileage and drinking habits” is not the proper way to shake a cold.
“I forgot just how hot you are,” my friend said this morning as I wedged my sunglasses in my unwashed hair and put my seeing glasses on my face so I could read the coffee menu. “And I’m glad you feel comfortable enough...
I was only on the LA City Animal Services site to check where and how I could donate Riley’s old bed. They always need blankets and towels and things at the shelters, so if you’d like to rid yourself of those bleach-stained towels and duvet covers you got from Ikea for $9 that you realized were visually offensive about two weeks after you started using them, animal services will...