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Dispatches from the City of Angels

I'm a mystery writer living in and writing about Los Angeles. You can catch my short story, "Running Venice," in the new anthology LAndmarked for Murder. Look for it in bookstores and on Amazon.com now. In the meantime, feel free to poke around. Over at my website you can find even more blog entries than I could fit here, as well as a few other ramblings. Enjoy and come back often.
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Most Recent Twitters:
A 3-foot long alligator was found walking down the middle of the street in Venice Beach this morning. I love L.A.

In case you were wondering, it is very difficult to get a hummingbird out of your house. They are irrational and prone to hysterics.


L.A. Finds:
The Nickel Diner on Main between 5th and 6th is a made-to-look-old, throwback of a place that melds into the old downtown and is, at the same time, part of the renaissance. They serve their burgers medium, their soda in bottles and offer all they can to locals in need.


Flickr Updates:
The second Thursday of every month is the Downtown Art Walk. The galleries stay open late, the restaurants are packed, bands perform on the streets. God, I love L.A.


What I'm Reading:
Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
by Christopher Brookmyre

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki Murakami


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Sue Ann Jaffarian
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Lipstick Chronicles



And that’s when I lost my freaking mind

(Have you ever turned on the news or opened the morning’s paper only to be confronted with something so grotesquely offensive that you simply lost your freaking mind? I had one of those moments this morning, and while I generally don’t use my blog for political or social commentary – at least not overtly, I much prefer a more subtle mind-control tactic – I simply could not let this go.)


Sumner Redstone’s daughter, who is a billionaire media mogul in her own right, who revolutionized the theater business as we know it and who no doubt has a red phone on her desk connected directly to God or, at the very least, the Pope, makes yummy cookies. Oh, and stuffed cabbage, too.

Or so the L.A. Times informs me. It has apparently become their policy to include the homemaking habits of the nation’s most successful business women when writing articles supposedly about their legal and corporate deal-makings. Is it 1954 and nobody told me?

Conspicuously absent was a list of Mr. Redstone’s greatest recipes. Although I’m quite sure he makes a lovely pot roast.

The article, to my great surprise, was written by a woman, who we will now be referring to as Traitor to the Feminist Cause.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go make sure women’s suffrage hasn’t been overturned while I wasn’t looking.



*And for the record, I make a bitchin’ snickerdoodle.


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