Today I went to Necromance, a store on Melrose that sells death - the bones of various animals, specimens in formaldehyde, taxidermy. The prices are affordable. The beauty produced by the natural world so challenges human craft that you would expect it to be priceless, but of course the biological methods of reproduction cost nothing […]
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Bad experience at Le Palais des Thes Beverly Hills
December 29, 2004 – 7:12 pm
Today I was upthe street in 90210, waiting for a phone call, and needing to kill twenty minutes, so I stopped in to Le Palais des Thes. It looked like a nice shop; they seemed to have a wide variety of teas from around the world, intelligently packaged and organized, and at the back was […]
Goodbye, Park La Brea
December 29, 2003 – 7:39 am
I’m waiting to hear if I’m going to get this apartment in Beverly Hills (!). Even if I don’t, my days at Park La Brea are numbered. I spent two years at PLB, and I definitly recommend living high up in a tower if you’re coming to Los Angeles and don’t want to feel overwhelmed.
My […]