La fun
On my ‘day off’ in LA I got to hang out a lot with Tim Fish, his friend Rich, and Mayumi. I would never have been able to get around so well without these kind folks (and their car access) so kudos to them! After hanging out in the Santa Monica area Tim and Rich picked me up and took me over to Meltdown and A Different Light where we dropped off some books and met our event organizers. They’re nice guys and it looks like everything is set up for us. Meltdown made some cool flyers that they inserted in our books on the shelves and A Different Light had a nice big poster in the window for the event. We had to bring more books to Meltdown because they were running low already before the event. Hopefully that’s a good sign for our turnout!
Then we got some frozen coffee drinks (the weather is realllly hot!) and Rich took us to a graveyard where Marilyn Monroe is as well as some other famous folks like Natalie Wood and Bob Crane. Marilyn’s mausoleum section had loads of lipstick kiss-marks all over it as well as pennies and flowers. Very Hollywood.
Then we hung out at Rich’s for a while until Mayumi got me and we had dinner at a cool vegetarian friendly Chinese place called Mao’s Kitchen. Very good! Then she took me back to my friend Chrys’s place where I’m staying the next few days. There are 2 cats and 2 birds here (and there are 2 dogs at Mayumi’s). I’m getting to meet lots of new animals!