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January 01, 1990 - January 19, 2013 + The Urban Man
Hardly Working 
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Special for Labor Day, 2009
Today is Labor Day, intended as a holiday of rest for working folks, and a celebration of labor itself. It's a...
The Organizing Principle
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Don't tell anyone, but the Urban Man often tries to organize real life
into a music video. It's a bad habit, I know — but I'll...
All the Way Back to Nature
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Sigmund Freud wrote a famous book called Civilization and Its Discontents in which he said people could never be happy: not with civilization and not...
Broken Field Running
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Like most Angelenos, the Urban Man is the master of many games not played at the Olympics. I drive the 405 Freeway at 5:04. I...
The Housewife Uncertainty Principle
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After all, it applies to everyone you meet. Your turbaned taxi driver may actually hold a PhD in biochemistry or have a hot Punjab memoir...
Dogmatism
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I don't own a dog. It's true. I resist owning a dog despite the urging of friends who insist it's more gratifying than raising a...
Freedom
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Here in L.A., it's important to express your personal freedom. Maybe you don't dance. Maybe you don't play the sax. But practically anyone can drive...
Pixie Dust
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Last week the Urban Man drove down to Hollywood Boulevard and joined the crowds hoping to see the afterglow of pixie dust around Michael Jackson's...
The Balcony Principle
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Like most modern humans, I believe in the Balcony Principle: that is, that all our work, all our struggles, and all our commutes will...
Sleepout
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The other day my friend Dave and I were sitting outside at a Culver City café, watching the traffic lights change along Washington Boulevard, when...
A Short Vacation
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You may or may not have noticed, but chaos has been in fashion for some time. You have your art expressing confusion and death, your...
Sudden Kinship
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When happy endings come to modern films or novels, they often come like this: An orphaned character, beset by evil-doers, finds an unexpected family among...
Hollywood Epistemology
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People complain that we in the media expect too much of actors. That we ask them deep philosophical questions and want them to reveal great...
Random Access Memory
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It's a few days before Memorial Day, right here in the Kingdom of
Forgetting, and the Urban Man has gone down to the veteran's cemetery.
Yes, the...
Keeping the Muse Happy
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If we want to get this economy moving, the Urban Man knows we're going
to have to sacrifice to the Muse of Excess Spending. We may...
