The Strange Places I Have Been, Week 1.5

• Koreatown
• Stuck in traffic on the 405 S; Long Beach; Costa Mesa
• The Lab, i.e. the Anti-Mall, and Gypsy Den.
• The Expo and the Los Angeles Swimming Center, host to the 1984 Olympics
  
• Starbucks
  
• California Science Center, USC's Auction Fundraiser for their Public Interest Law Foundation
• Food4Less on Wilshire
  
• Cal Arts in Valencia, seeing a show by show with Katie Shook and Eric Lindley. There were clothes lines, good music and a sleeping bag catepillar.
• The pandería down the street.
• IKEA in Burbank
• The Culver City Main St. farmer's market
• The House of Pie
• Echo Park, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Avocado St.
  
• Corestaff Employment Agency and the Post Office on Miracle Mile
• The Manual Archives and Concrete Folk Variations, Part 1. A Sapphic Noir serial drama with puppets.
• Lost in the Fashion District, and on Trinity St.
• Los Angeles Airport (LAX)
• "This Is Not My Beautiful Writing," a reading by Cal Arts MFA grads at Betalevel--Chinatown, down an alley, underground.
  
• Let's Be Frank Dogs
• Helm's Bakery and Thos. Moser's new gallery--a classic contemporary cabinetmaker.
• Ford's Filling Station
  
• Vista Del Mar in El Segundo; I could see bonfires on the beach.