i bummed my first cigarette last night, but i didn’t smoke it. i got it for joel, who was too shy to ask his fellow addicts, standing in the cloud of nicotine outside.<\/p>\n
“it’ll make a good story for your website,” he said.<\/p>\n
so, there you go. wasn’t that good?<\/p>\n
we need to stop meeting like this,<\/i> i thought, later on in the club, but the words didn’t come out of my mouth. so i smiled, hoping he’d notice, but i’m not sure if he did.<\/p>\n
that’s when i knew i’d lived here a while: i keep running into people i know. shane at the dresden, armita at the coffee table, gina at the nuwilshire. how LA of me.<\/p>\n
“hollywood is so trashy,” i told joel, driving down the boulevard past midnight. in the movies, you see red carpets and the hollywood sign. in the city, you see neon lights and dilapidated buildings.<\/p>\n
at the corner, street punks sat in a row on the dirty pavement. a matching set of girls walked by.<\/p>\n
“i hate you johnny,” yelled the girl in tan suede.
\n“come here,” he beckoned.
\n“no, you<\/b> come here<\/b>,” she shouted back. “why do i always have to come to you?”
\nshe stopped yards away, waiting for him to come, but he never did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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