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As we know, Mary and husband #2, Dan Mooney acquire the Lucas Mansion and the surrounding 2 acre property from the Nancy Lucas estate in 1883. On January 1, 1903, the Lucas / Mooney Mansion burns to the ground - and is not rebuilt. There are no structures on the property. Mary and husband #3, A.B. Hotchkiss (1839 - 1905) move to the Rose Mansion in downtown Los Angeles. In 1911, the neighbors and the City complain about the overgrown trees and hedges – “the trees are considered to be a nuisance.

This book tour has finally caught up with me and I’ve hit the wall. Must get a decent night’s sleep, so will leave it here and pick it up tomorrow. Lots of pieces moving on lots of chess boards, but I think—hope!— they can all wait a day. Buddy’s got more time to play with his camera since I'm away, and he’s doing it to some purpose. [Photo by Buddy Poland]

Note: This series is based on several podcasts I recorded about the events of October 7th and the resulting war in Gaza. Please leave suggestions, criticisms, citations, corrections, etc. in the comments. Subsequent changes to the text will not be marked, but each draft will be given a new revision date here: 6/25/24. We live amid the tides of history, but rarely know it. To know it is to see a familiar landscape suddenly inundated, and to recognize that anything can happen at any time.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Readers, Recently I did something hard: I gave a close friend a brand new pair of wooden clogs I bought for myself last year, but have never worn. They were shiny pink patent leather with red trim, and I’d ordered them, against my better judgement, because they were on deep discount, and also because I just looooooved them. I loved them so much, I bought them knowing I shouldn’t, because they’d be painful to wear.

It was nearly dark when I pulled up to the house on Via Escondido Drive. I was about to spend a summer in this house with a man I’d met on the internet. The moment my finger made contact with the doorbell, it occurred to me this could all be one elaborate catfish. The sound of the doorbell, followed by a small commotion inside, was revealed to me through the open window of a bathroom facing the driveway.

When someone calls you a “sea lion” on social media, it tells you about as much as it does if someone calls you a racist or a bigot or a cuck or an SJW: nothing. If you’re unfamiliar with this term, you probably missed a very strange, very hard-to-explain conversation about internet harassment that occurred almost a decade ago. Someone should do a deep dive on this moment, but during it, seemingly everyone in journalism was talking about the evils of online harassment.

I’ve been seeing various people with various agendas confidently say that “you can’t prove a negative” for about as long as I’ve been seeing people argue on the internet. Sometimes they’re trying to make reasonable points. Sometimes they’re spouting nonsense. But they always present “you can’t prove a negative” as if it were a universally acknowledged l… ncG1vNJzZmialaOvtr7Goqpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wu8VmmqitoqiybsXOrmScmZ5ivbO71Z5kmmWemrSiwMivnA%3D%3D

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