Downtown Los Angeles, 1862
Downtown Los Angeles, intersection of Main, Spring, and Temple streets, 1863
MacArthur Park, 1887
MacArthur Park, 1892
Hollywood, 1900
Hollywood, corner of Highland and Franklin, 1903
Hollywood, Highland Avenue north of Hollywood Boulevard, 1906
Hollywood, Cahuenga Pass, 1878
Beachwood Canyon, 1900
Hollywood Blvd. at Sunset Blvd., 1904
Sunset Blvd. c. Normandie, 1900
Site of future Melrose Avenue, looking north, 1876
Santa Monica Boulevard near the future La Brea Avenue, 1900
Santa Monica Boulevard at Western Avenue, 1906
Western Avenue south of Sunset, 1906
Western Avenue just north of Santa Monica Boulevard, 1896
Western Avenue north of Pico, 1895
Western Avenue at Washington Blvd., 1900
East Hollywood, 1905
Los Feliz, view from the future Barnsdall Park, 1890
Los Feliz, Los Feliz Blvd. at Griffith Park Blvd., 1910
The Los Feliz River, now Los Feliz Blvd. at Hillhurst Ave., 1884
Griffith Park, 1900
Griffith Park, 1902
Silverlake, 1907
Echo Park, Sunset Blvd. and Glendale Avenue, 1904
Echo Park Lake, 1892
The Los Angeles River, near downtown, 1900
The Los Angeles River, near Glendale, 1889
Beverly Hills, Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Drive, 1911
Bel Air, 1907
Coldwater Canyon, 1910
Benedict Canyon, 1890
The La Brea Tar Pits, 1911
Future site of LACMA, 1902
Culver City, 1903
Santa Monica, 1898
Santa Monica, 1895
Santa Monica, 1887
Santa Monica Canyon, 1885
Malibu, future Pacific Coast Highway, 1905
Compton, 1903
The San Fernando Valley, 1875
The San Fernando Valley, 1900
North Hollywood, 1909
Glendale, Verdugo Blvd. and Clifton Place, 1904
Lincoln Heights, Hancock Street, 1900
Highland Park, 1894
Pasadena, Colorado Blvd., 1895
Pasadena, Colorado Boulevard at Marengo Avenue, 1890
Pasadena, southwest corner of East California Blvd. and South Wilson Ave, 1905
Altadena, 1907
Angeles National Forest, San Gabriel Mountains, 1893
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p.s. Hey. ** jay, Hey. Maybe it could be argued that 18 year old escorts are the seers of their generation? Any touching up I do, say with BrokeFemboy, is so minimal and merely helpful enough that he/they always get the credit. You can’t money launder with cryptocurrency? I literally know next to nothing about cryptocurrency. I like that the word crypt is involved, but that also wards me off. Mm, the empty IKEA space is mildly exciting, but mostly for wondering what in world is going to go into that gigantic space in this day and age. I’d like to have an hour-long conversation about games and consciousness, so … score. Monday’s here. Nothing we can do about that. ** James, Hey. Good, those posts need lots of attention just like their stars. I should write an epic poem about LA if for no other reason than to dethrone Jim Morrison as people’s idea of LA’s poetic know-it-all. Dod you know that he even wrote an actual poem, not even a song, whose first lines are ‘Los Angeles, you’re a woman / and you spread your legs for me’. LA deserves so, so, so much better. I wonder why they’re called ‘Daddy’. Why they’re called ‘Long Legs’ is a given. I think ‘ally’ is what straight people call themselves when they have a queer friend for two? ** Steeqhen, I know, he’s so nice, right? And not shabby looking either. Nice day there, chill but with sufficient detailing. Mine was chill too, but with insufficient detailing. ** Misanthrope, I know rich people who are perfectly nice too. Not as generous as they should be, so a problem with selfishness, but nice, yes. My weekend was both chill and chilly too. How about that. ** Måns BT, Hey, Måns! The blog missed you too, and so did I! Wow, I hope your last school day did whatever it could possibly do to send you off into the realms of freedom with a grin. Awesome about your friends. Friends are the best of the world in a hand basket, really, it’s easy to forget that. I’ve been fine, I think, wait, yes, totally fine. Paris gets quite decorated for Xmas, so Xmas is everywhere I look, so I guess I am feeling it, which is good, right? And I don’t have to buy people gifts or get gifts, so I’m totally squared away in the Xmas spirit without the pressure points. ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion, yes, indeed, agreed. Fun! ‘A Night to Dismember’ is hard to top. ‘Deadly Weapons’ has its charms. Great to see you! I hope to get to do that again sooner than later. Enjoy your first day off. ** Steve, Yes, and DirtySven seems to be making some decent bank. My weekend was good. We scored the world premiere for our film, but I can’t say anything about that publicly for a while. I’m in a fun level of my video game aka ‘Shroom Temple’. I’m in its dance club, and the shroom DJ asked me to find a record he accidentally lost somewhere, and I found it, and now I have to find all the shrooms in the temple and lure them to the disco and fill the dance floor with them, after which something good will happen, but I don’t know what yet. I’m sorry to hear your weekend was full of coughing. Hopefully no longer. That’s weird, they just did a INTERSTELLAR 5555 event here too. Boy, was that a good record: ‘Discovery’. ** Dominik, Hi!!! So sorry about your aunt’s less than stellar taste in boyfriends. What’s the cult-like group? What’s their thing? My weekend was good: see my report to Steve. No, the Herzog screening was jammed shut, darn. Haha, love didn’t deserve that comment. Damn Love is a Seriously Fuck’n Sexy METH Slam Injecting Hot and Homely PIG 💉👍, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hey. I’ve heard of ‘Lady Killers’, I think. I might’ve even seen it. Will check. Will do, if not. Thanks, buddy. ** Lucas, Hi, L. I’m good. Mm, I think I understand what you’re getting at, but I’m also thinking you might be in an ‘overthinking’ moment. Personally, I’d just put it away and give it a short rest and then go back to it when you’re feeling capable of being wide-eyed and innocent when reading it. I think maybe you had different expectations when writing it, and maybe it isn’t what you were hoping but maybe it’s actually pretty A-okay and doing something that you didn’t anticipate and can’t recognise yet because you’re still too close to what your original goal was. That’s my guess, and, yeah, I’ve been there before. I say let yourself write what you’re excited to write and don’t worry if you’re capable. Capability is something that accumulates, not something you can lock down before writing. Be patient and trust yourself. From the outside, i.e. me and surely other of your readers, the trust is there. If that makes sense at all? ** Jimmy, Jimmy, wow, that’s an interesting new name. Thanks about the lads up above yesterday. A favorite? Hm, I don’t know, maybe BrokeFemboy. Ange is sweet, and he’s a very good poet, yes. And a fine actor (he’s in ‘Room Temperature’). Huh, I think I now have, like, seven friends who read tarot for income of some degree. Interesting. Sounds interesting of course. Anyway, you have some solid, and, in a couple of cases, mysterious friends. Nice. I’m alright. Getting things done, and that’s enough for me. Happy increasingly almost Xmas. ** HaRpEr, I think in France you can’t smoke indoors anywhere. But at least you can smoke in restaurants/bars’ outdoor seating areas. In the US, you can’t even do that anymore. And a lot of businesses have signs that say ‘No smoking within 25 feet of the entrance’. I do like that feeling of ‘these are my people’ when you’re in one of those nasty smoking rooms in airports. It’s very easy to be a vegetarian in Paris. That wasn’t the case when I first moved here, but Paris is very vegetarian friendly now. No problem at all. Granted, I don’t eat at traditional French restaurants, but it’s almost as breezy being a vegetarian here as in LA where vegetarians practically run the city. So I don’t know how your friend had those bad experiences. Maybe it was years ago? Great luck with the submission. Nice title re: subject matter. If Hobart and Expat don’t take it, just send it elsewhere. There are a lot of good lit sites these days. I used to be friends with Minnie Riperton’s daughter. She confirmed the seeming myth that her mom’s voice could shatter glass. I hope your weekend was merely a preview of the wonderfulness of your week. ** alex, Hi, alex! Super good to see you! It feels like ages! Fucking Cloudflare. It’s fucking Satan. The start of winter here has been pretty good, cold enough but not out to murder its citizens, yet anyway. And we had one full day of snow even, for the first time in decades. Congrats about The Vermin! Yay! Can The Vermin be accessed online, or, I guess, ordered? Great! Right, I forgot that I donated a joke to Lynne’s book. I can’t remember the joke. Maybe a Kurt Cobain suicide one? Lynne told me a creepy joke that I sometimes tell people: ‘Why do women wear makeup and perfume?’ ‘Because they’re ugly and they smell bad’. That’s strange: I just got an email from Louise Weard. I haven’t opened it yet. And I don’t think I’ve seen her movie. And I think I had better watch it post-haste. Yes, I hope you can conquer Cloudflare repeatedly, as it’s very good to get to talk with you. ** Justin D, Hi. Oh, cool, glad you liked Cecil B. Demented’ too. I think it’s a crime that Kathleen Turner didn’t get the Oscar for ‘Serial Mom’ or even get nominated for fuck’s sake. You’re correct in thinking that ‘Dancer from the Dance’ is not my thing. I did read it way back when. It definitely has its fans, and I’m sure there’s a good reason. My weekend wasn’t bad. I said something about it up above. Kind of meandering in a not unpleasant way. Yours? ** Darby𓃱𓃱, Excellent giraffes, you are right. The giraffe is probably my favorite animal. If you saw escorts, that was the right post. You can type on a phone and walk a dog at the same time? Wow. Oh, you’re speaking at your phone. That’s a little less spectacular, but still. It sounds like congratulations are in order about you exiting the transition house, yes? Congrats! That’s big news, no? I like you as one of Santa’s elves. I like that image. Even with the grubby little fingers problem. After8 is great, yeah. It’d be much harder to live here without it. I don’t know why it’s called that. I’m going to ask them. ** Corey, I made the mistake of sharing a fresh, full little bottle of cocaine with an escort one time, and he was taking his hit and said, I have to pee, and took the bottle with him, and, sure enough, returned with an empty bottle and said he’d accidentally dropped it in the toilet, and the bottle wasn’t even wet! Khat: I only know the name. I’ll add Wikipedia’s input to yours and dwell on the likelihood or not of trying it. No, the Herzog screening was way, way sold out. Sadly. Everyone, Corey has some advice for those of you who are having problems getting through the Cloudflare doorman to comment here. Here’s Corey: ‘(1) Try using a different browser. For me Firefox works but Chrome doesn’t. Makes sense, given how Google once murdered this blog. (2) The most reliable way to open the current blog post is to click a link from Facebook — either the “Dennis Cooper’s Blog” Facebook account or Dennis’s personal Facebook account. Dennis posts a link to the blog from both of those Facebook accounts every time he publishes a new post.’ Give those shot. Can’t hurt. Thanks, pal. ** nat, Hi, nat. Luckily the blog’s week just sits there waiting for those who have had better things to do. Thank you for the kind comments about the posts. They feel fresh as a daisy. A ‘PGL’ night, excellent. Well, theoretically. I really do need to take a long look at ‘Final Fantasy XIV’ because, like I’ve said, ‘Final Fantasy’ is just a very stylised total mystery to me. You look more than vaguely cool, based on that portrait. Ryan Gosling is one of those actors where, if he’s in a movie, I don’t see the movie. He’s like curdled milk to me or something. ** Okay. I’m not entirely sure what effect today’s post will have on those of you who don’t know Los Angeles, but I feel like there’s a kind of basic charisma there that translates. Still, that’s your call. See you tomorrow.
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