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April 21, 2007
Powerless In The Entertainment Capitol of the World
Starbucks, 12824 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 916048:43 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. They say no, but that […]
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Powerless In The Entertainment Capitol of the World: Part 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 see. I don’t usually sit in […]
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Powerless In The Entertainment Capitol of the World: Part 3
…Continued (Part 1 is here)(Part 2 is here)Starbucks, 12824 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 9160410:00 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. No. But, in the time that the rabid […]
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Powerless In The Entertainment Capitol of the World: Conclusion
…Continued (Part 1 is here)(Part 2 is here)(Part 3 is here)Starbucks, 12824 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 9160410:41 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 the evening so far, my ears detect […]
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