- LA: The Garment District (III). Spanish 101. The week before, Lauren and I stopped at a -nice- Sunglass place at the Hollywood/Highland shopping center, and did the obligatory ‘imitate the picture’ thing, so we decided to get some sunglasses here. We stop at a sunglass …booth? store? Shanty. The proprietor informs us that they are $5 each. I engage in a real […]
- The Maori Healing Experience Hurts. In a good way. So my Mom heard that the Maori Healers were coming to Gainesville, so she signed me up for a healing session. She knows I’m always down for the odd experience (I doubt she’d say “down”). I’ve seen acupuncturists, reiki healers, hypnotherapists, rebirthers, EMDR techs, psychics, Neuro Linguistic Programmers, all kinds of stuff. I am a […]
- LA: Guns, Drugs, and La Policia. A Shopping Story. This is a continuation of an earlier note. — We finally meet up. I jump in the car. We take a nearby, innocuous seeming exit from the airport. There was no sign. No warning. No indication that we were being funneled (”Railroaded”, Lauren would call it, fifteen minutes later) to a road with no exits, […]