I.] JUNE 2007. I see these dolled up billboards for Nancy Drew all over the southland and they remind me of the old hardy boys stories I tried to read when reading was cool, before the internet and cable tv. I could never and still cannot finish a book from cover to cover. The mind drifts, becomes distracted by a snackfood or the promise of the orange yellow sunbath outside. If it’s sunny out, why do you want to be indoors with a book in your hand. You want to be out at a barbecue with the dodgers or a volleyball game at oakwood park. You want to snort up the clean air like John Belushi over a coffeetable of blow in 1983. Where was I, hardy boys, schmardy boys, alfie hitchcock presents the three investigators, now there is a series i recall. Jupiter Jones and his rolls royce rides- what a guy. and the Great Brain- Pat Radovich used to read that book about mormon kids to us at montessori west from her trailer home/classroom.

The reviews for this nancy drew movie are frighteningly bland- a modern day lady Sherlock holmes at Hollywood high investigating the unsolved murder of a Hollywood screen siren in a haunted mansion. What’s this about a fifties button down mentality in 2007- I can dig the fifties, clean cut, excuse me and thank yous, lemonbars in tin boxes. You could do much worse in this day and age of doped out sluts puking on themselves on Sunset Boulevard.

II.] Policemen are subject to more temptations than workers in any other type of occupation... bar owners are happy to give an officer a bottle of liquor, hoping that this will sometime influence his official actions. For the same reason, women offer themselves readily at times to a policeman. There is always ready money for the policeman who will forget he is a cop. Policemen are put to great stress living on their 'just get by' salaries. They have trying work schedules, bad hours that make it tough on home life. They are subject to a rigid promotional setup which, mathematically, makes it impossible for everbody to advance. When a man takes the Badge, he must learn to control these things inside him. If he doesnt want to control them, he wont stay on this police force. (Webb 176)

III.] Why can’t this stupid dog get it through her thick head not to lunge at other dogs- do I really have the choke the living f#ck out of her every time we go on a walk? What a workout you get when dealing with an obstinate, impetuous beast who practically weighs as much as you do. And tonight we saw this young buck adult American bulldog twice the size of Katarina- could have snapped her neck in two with one bite, and being led by this 7 foot tall mtherf#cker who grabbed onto the choker with both hands to save me from an early grave. Whoever had the brilliant idea of buying a big dog and never walking it explains a lot about this individual’s sense of responsibility. Why southern cal? Is it so much better than norcal? There are celebrities so-called down here- people in the news on tmz and entertainment tonight with that sick perve pat o’brien. But if you can’t make it in Hollywood and you don’t have family here what’s the point of staying, you’d have to be an egomaniac to want to stick around.