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Blog Entry #2, Continued (Part 1 is here)(Part 2 is here)(Part 3 is here) Starbucks, 12824 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604 10:41 pm As the white woman rifles through the Times, I skip town – over to the counter for a soy chai latte. When I sit back down and begin trying to reconstruct [...]

Blog Entry #2, Continued (Part 1 is here)(Part 2 is here) Starbucks, 12824 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604 10:00 pm As I’m writing down my faulty thoughts and recollections of my conversation with Ava, surrounded by power outages all over “the Valley“ here, the rabid white woman leans toward me and addresses me. Oh. [...]

Blog Entry #2, Continued (Part 1 is here) Starbucks, 12824 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604 9:12 pm Giggly girls speaking in tongues and I can no longer write coherently. So I move to a different table up near the two – count ‘em, TWO sets of overstuffed chairs that give me comfort just to [...]

Blog Entry #3 Starbucks, Brentwood Village, California 6:34 pm I don’t know, I got stung by a beauty bee yesterday evening. I went to get my mail from the apartment complex mailbox which is on the edge of a nice courtyard near the pool and there right in front of me was a perfectly opened [...]

Blog Entry #2 Starbucks, 12824 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604 8:43 pm “No running in the Pool Area!” Gilbert the barista calls out to the young woman running toward me at the back of this Starbucks, her two girlfriends walking, giggling behind her. I ask them if they’re here because of the power outage. [...]