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November 6, 2009

The Dark Undone
LOS ANGELES—
The thought came to me when I was fifteen and trying to sleep on New Year's Eve. Nothing I recall had happened to incite it. I'd spent the night babysitting my younger siblings while my mother attended a party, and she returned home around one in the morning and everyone went to bed. (My [...:]
0 comments Published on November 06, 2009 09:28 | 16 views

October 11, 2009

Saved by Demon Song
LOS ANGELES—
I'm hungry. I have no money at all, none is expected soon, and there's no one from whom I can borrow. I pace all night, wondering how to come by a few dollars to eat.
Finally, slowly, a plan unfolds: I can walk down the street to an ATM, fill out a deposit slip for [...:]
0 comments Published on October 11, 2009 09:09 | 23 views

October 5, 2009

What Child Is This?
LOS ANGELES—
A relative is apparently angry at me, or so I was told by another relative. Fortunately, it has nothing to do with my pieces at The Nervous Breakdown (though this piece may well compound the situation). Rather, in his (erroneous) view, I slighted still another relative, so, on this relative's unrequested behalf, I'm being [...:]
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August 30, 2009

How I Became Human
LOS ANGELES, CA —
Growing up working-class in a small Southern city, I early acquired a racist vocabulary. This was by no means encouraged by my parents, who were mortified when, at four or so, I referred to a fellow customer at Sears as a nigger. I have no memory of doing that — I was [...:]
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August 13, 2009

3301 Waverly Drive
LOS ANGELES, CA –
Jerry and Mary Neeley used to own the best video store on the east side of L.A. That's where I met them, and since they closed shop two years ago to sell movie collectibles online, we've occasionally met for coffee and talk of, among other topics, true crime. We've also kept in [...:]
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July 29, 2009

I Was a Child Porn Model
LOS ANGELES, CA—
When I was ten, my parents sent me to summer camp for two weeks. They made the arrangements secretly, knowing a fit was inevitable the minute they broke the news. I was an explosive kid, coming as I did from a histrionic family, and my parents wanted me gone for a while so [...:]
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July 12, 2009

Romance, Bromance, and Déjà Vu
LOS ANGELES—
My best friend in my early L.A. days was a German guy I'll call Christoph. I lived on the porch of a house in Silver Lake, which I shared with a gay musician, a film student from Austria, yet another film student from France, and the birdlike former frontwoman of the noted band A [...:]
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July 7, 2009

A Thousand Words: Have You Seen My Head?
LOS ANGELES—
After one of the first Die Princess Die shows I attended, Pete, the co-frontman and guitarist, asked what I thought. I allowed that the show was pretty good, except I wished the band would break more stuff.
He considered that a lame reaction—or "stupid" is the adjective I believe he used. I was surprised, since [...:]
0 comments Published on July 07, 2009 13:40 | 15 views

June 26, 2009

"Farrah! You're Beautiful! I Love You!"
Even in the midst of being hounded by paparazzi, Farrah Fawcett sweetly agrees to autograph to a dollar bill. And what became of that dollar bill? Oy vey!
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"Farrah! You're beautiful! I love you!"
LOS ANGELES—
I was a teenager living in New York. George was my brilliant roommate, and sometimes, if we weren't doing anything, one of us would say, "Do you want to walk aimlessly around?" That was our standard joke. But we did indeed spend much time walking aimlessly all over Manhattan, and one early-winter night on [...:]
0 comments Published on June 26, 2009 06:07 | 4 views



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