I Have Sex, Therefore I Write

Sometimes it seems that everyone with a keyboard, an internet connection, and a lurid thought or two are trying their hand at literary erotica these days. From my feature for the July issue of X Biz World magazine:
“I craved sexy stories; really good, really hot, sexy stories,” Benedicks says. “Much to my disappointment, all I [...]

Fun Facts About Los Angeles

“The freeway experience … is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. … Actual participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.”
>> Joan Didion
* The population of Los Angeles is approximately 3,722,500 (1998).
* The approximate number of [...]

An L.A. Observation By Charles Bukowski

why is it that the pickup truck
carrying the loose refrigerator
on the freeway
is always going between
80 and 90 m.p.h.?

Frantic Week

Just discovered that a magazine feature I was assigned has a quicker turnaround time than expected — July 5. So if you came here looking for updates you are shit out of luck. Look, people, I announced here months ago that I was willing to take on guest bloggers but did any of you bite [...]

Reveal the Narrator

Trace was once mentoring a young writer who complained that he didn’t know how to harvest from his own life experience in order to write convincing characters.
“Are you available all day today?” Trace asked one morning as he contemplated the young writer’s dilemma.
His schedule was indeed open and free so they met at Trace’s favorite [...]

Crazy Chicks and Enemas

We are totally digging LAist under the editorial hand of new chief Tony Pierce. The joint is looking less like a local bulletin board and more like a kick ass bit of L.A. anarchy. (Thank God that banal “20 Under 30″ series is about to come to an end).
This morning, LAist debuted a new ongoing [...]