Tragedy in my hometown…
[… really nothing to say here. -Thomas]
A Walk Through Carnage
Third and Arizona, Santa Monica
By BRUCE JACKSON
Orgasmic Vegetarians
About noon on Wednesday, I was walking east on Wilshire and crossing Second Street in Santa Monica. A block south on Second street, at the intersection with Arizona Avenue, I saw a big awning and a big sign that said “Orgasmic Vegetarians.”
My first thought was that this is the place where, perhaps more than any place else in America, people take their bodies seriously, where maintaining and displaying bodies is a full-time job. It is also the place, perhaps more than any other in America, where the loopiest technologies for health, happiness and personal transcendence are advertised, adored and tried out just in case one of them actually works.