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January 01, 1990 - February 10, 2013 + The Urban Man
Serendipity 
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Tonight the Urban Man attempts to create serendipity. My company has arranged for a party with potential corporate partners out on the windy beach behind...
Apocalypse Now and Then
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Today, the Urban Man finds himself strolling through the Universal Studios theme park near to closing time. Even though the faux 'streets' have almost emptied,...
Regret
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Surely, the modern world was designed to manufacture regret in large quantities. When people lived on farms, I figure it took years to build...
The Imaginary Century
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Sometimes, we all wish we could live in the imagined 21st Century. Not the one that actually exists, but the one they pictured in the...
Fortunes of the Night
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The Fate of the Speckled Taw-Taw
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Like many others glued to their televisions over the last eight days, I now understand that we who dwell in large, modern cities are fragile...
The Evening Commute
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Tonight, thanks to bad planning, the Urban Man finds himself creeping east along the 10 with an uncountable crowd of late commuters, somewhere past Alhambra.
Fantasy
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Pledge Drive Special
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The Last 3 Percent
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ur/ur050801the_last_3_percent
I don't know about you, but I often fall prey to chance remarks. People say things I just can't get out of my head. The...
The Wonder of Modern Technology
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ur/ur050725the_wonder_of_modern
Like most people born with a genuine Y chromosome, I-m proud to have a touch of the nerd in my soul. I once read novels...
Civilization Threatens Los Angeles
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If you want to explain the soul of L.A. to out-of-town guests, I suggest this simple strategy. Take them up the hill to the Getty...
Certainty
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SOMETIMES, even here in L.A., we fail to dream of fame and fortune. In weak moments, we sometimes crave mere certainty: a safe job, a...
The Pursuit of Happiness
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In 1776, a man named Thomas Jefferson wrote an extraordinary sentence. He said, -We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created...
Shooting L.A.
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Here in L.A., we understand cameras. We know you can shoot a star when she has her makeup fixed and her smile ready....or you can...
