This has been the week from hell down here in SoCal

As a friend mentioned today, it’s a good thing we are a rich state, or those of us who live in southern cali would all be toast by now. Here in Los Angeles, our canyons have been spared this time, but being sandwiched in between 12 out of control wildfires has been no picnic either. I’ve been breathing in chunks of particulate, wiping ash out of my eyes and off of my car all week. On Tuesday the heat was so oppressive, the air so still and the sky so low and orange I thought I was in the middle of some post nuclear nightmare. I can’t even imagine what it has been like for the folks who’ve had to deal with the winds, the flames and the smoke.

The bright spots in my week were:

1: a comment from thirithch on my post on Augusten Burroughs a few weeks back. Thirithch: you aren’t late to the party at all: In fact just last night in a class on memoir I’m taking, our instructor, the wonderful Amy Friedman, professed her disdain for Running with Scissors for all the same reasons you cite, so your timing is uncanny!

2. this picture that showed up on my flickr RSS today:

4durt: this picture arrived in the nick of time. It is so absurdly beyond cute, that I’m just going to stare at this photo until I start to feel normal again.

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Goodbye Jack. You are missed.

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