A.) JULY 07. During the chilliest summer on record, the internet on 1066 green dolphin street collapsed for several days- what was alex to do? actual real writing, stuff he can package and stick a yellow price tag on? writing that will go down in history alongside faulkner chandler ellroy and dickens? nah. Instead, he had a few real nice days in July in los angeles at the favorite haunts- lalas on melrose, noodle planet in westwood, the urth cafes, hotel cafe on cahuenga, beauty bar, dresden on vermont, the sands of ocean park, nice places- islands of sanity in an otherwise bastion of cosmopolitan filth and 21st century overcrowding.

B.) 4th of july on the beach on the velvet vanilla sand with peals of laughter and the clinking of amber bottles and exploding fireworks in the cool black sky is why you love America… I find the art of positive thinking so fascinating- rush has it, leykis has it, they have this unexplainable pep in their step- come what may there is no stopping them. They’re like an undeniable force hurtling through the cosmos and anything in their way is shattered into a million pieces. What does it take to be so gd positive when so many things are going wrong. There is this guy at work he always has a dumb grin on his face even when he doesn’t think anyone is looking. Is he psychotic or just really cheerful. How will I ever know? You take a reall shitty situation like someone just keyed the side of your car and chucked a 20 pound cinderblock through your front windshield and you go from there. Instantly, in your head, the gears turn a mile a minute: get a paintjob, replace the glass, report the crime, park somewhere else. act and not react. Is a man considered wise if he learns to take lemons and make fruit salad?

C.) The Summer of Love refers to the summer of 1967, particularly in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where thousands of young people loosely and freely united for a new social experience. As a result, the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness. The beginning of the Summer of Love has popularly been attributed to the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967. The size of that event awakened mass media to the hippie counterculture that was blossoming in the Haight-Ashbury. College and high school students began streaming into the Haight on their spring break of 1967. The Mamas and the Papas took 20 minutes to write " If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair... If you're going to San Francisco, Summertime will be a love-in there." The song was designed to promote the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, the world's first major rock festival, which was attended by over 200,000 people.