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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + The Urban Man
Envy, Part I 
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Here in L.A., people often seek my envy. Neighbors add 30-foot Doric
columns to their front porches and pass me in 30-foot Hummer
limousines. Perfect strangers mention...
Inspiration
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Here in L.A., most of us are not content to experience occasional
moments of personal inspiration. No, we seek them out 24/7. We spend
thousands on stirring...
The Joy of Poor Circulation
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Like love, a neighborhood is a sweet but fragile thing. Like affection, a neighborhood is easily lost. On Monday you walked around the block for...
Orcs in Distant Cubicles
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Tonight, we find the Urban Man alone in his backyard office
battling Orcs. Outside, high winds rattle the banana trees. In the
house, my family sleeps all...
An Alphabet of Freedom
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The other night, right around 11, the Urban Man became frustrated with the discipline of his life: you know, tax returns, diet books, carefully-wrought conversations...
Those Annoying Paradigm Shifts
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The other day I went hunting for paradigm shifts, you know: basic changes in the human landscape. Naturally, I followed the geeks. You see, geeks...
The Mood of Mother Nature, Part II
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Now, you may wonder why I even care about the weather when I work in a sealed high rise. Why I worry about drought when...
The Mood of Mother Nature, Part I
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Like most Angelenos, I worry that Mother Nature doesn't actually love L.A. That despite the illusion of paradise, she would have preferred we build our...
The Judgment of Strangers
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Like most Americans, the Urban Man believes that the only fair way to
decide any issue is to ask a group of ignorant strangers. I have...
Honest Ambition
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Sometimes I like to watch the videos produced by L.A.'s leading
gangster rappers. You know: The men in hooded sweats and shiny
medallions, their women dancing half-naked...
The Blackberry Event Horizon
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The ancient prophets described life as a movement from birth toward salvation. Einstein spoke of the space/time continuum. But the Urban Man rarely experiences time...
Smoking Magritte's Pipe
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Like most people I know, the Urban Man lives a life of illusion. I keep multiple identities online, clever clothing on my back, and DVD's...
Last Days of Costco
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You may not have noticed, but the peak of the American consumer society came and went last Tuesday afternoon...
Out-of-Town Romance
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It's almost Valentine's Day, and once again Angelenos will set out to
conjure sparks of romance in the metropolis. We'll make reservations,
drive the hills--but as usual,...
Innocence
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Like most people in the modern world, the Urban Man is always trying to recapture lost innocence. Fortunately, despite the apparent cynicism of the age,...
