Figueroa Street. LA.

You can get in your car or truck and cruise up and down Figueroa Street in Los Angeles. There is trash, an occasional gathering of homeless people living near a tent and a blue tarp overhanging a chain link fence.

The real stars are the street prostitutes, looking for work, as it were. They are dressed or displayed , as only street prostitutes can display themselves. I guess they make money doing this. This street couture reflects their only creative outlet. It’s like white collar guys trying to get their shirts and ties to complement.

Do Gavin Newsome or Adam Schiff watch this? I wonder.

I Was Hitler’s Podiatrist

Now The Story can be told.

Der Schafsbock Hornen made consecrating all Nazi flags to the Blut Fahnen a real ordeal for Der Führer. Would he have the Will to Triumph wearing those riding boots pinching his Zehen?

I came for the fallen arches that plagued him in the trenches of the Western Front. I crafted Der Eisen Orthotiken that kept him as spry as a Hitler Jugend during the long speeches at all of the Rallies.

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Audrey

I’ve mentioned her before, Audrey Hepburn.

Being infatuated with a movie star long deceased, is part of the magic of celebrity media culture. I can watch and listen to her sing Moon River, Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini’s masterpiece, and I am that adolescent who first heard her sixty-plus years ago..

It’s a shame the cigarettes killed you,

Cara Mia