crud, he said, hauling it out of the water, what is it? a Hollow-Back June Whale, I said… no, said a guy standing by us on t…

at exactly 12:00 midnight 1973-74 Los Angeles it began to rain on the palm leaves outside my window

the old L.A. Public Library burn… down that library downtown and with it went large part of my

Julio came by with his guitar and… latest song. Julio was famous, he wrote songs a… published books of little drawings… poems.

you consult psychiatrists and phil… when things aren’t going well and whores when they are. the whores are there for young boy… men; to the young boys they say,

“What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?” We got into my car and she told me where she lived. We stopped for a couple of big steaks, vegetables, stuff for a salad, potatoes, b...

re-reading some of Fante’s The Wine of Youth in bed this mid-afternoon my big cat

between 2 and 5 p.m. any day and a… Wednesday, it’s 20% off for us old dogs approaching the sunset… it’s strange to be old and not fee… old

feet of cheese coffeepot soul hands that hate poolsticks eyes like paperclips I prefer red wine

I took Tanya to Santa Anita. The current sensation was a 16 year old jockey still riding with his 5 pound bug advantage. He was from the east and was riding at Santa Anita for the first...

When I awakened it was 1:30 pm. I took a bath, got dressed, checked the mail. A letter from a young man in Glendale. "Dear Mr. Chinaski: I am a young writer and I think that I am a good...

There are sketches on the walls of… and outside a large green bus swer… insanity sprung from a waving line… says the radio, and Jane Austin,… “I am going to do her portrait on…

they get up on their garage roof both of them 80 or 90 years old standing on the slant she wanting to fall really all the way