Spike is a one hundred year old homarus Americanus who weighs 18 pounds and resides in a polycarbonate tank in the foyer of Gladstones 4 Fish, a restaurant located at the terminus of fabled Sunset Boulevard and the Santa Monica Bay. Actress Mary Tyler Moore recently attempted to buy Spike for a thousand dollars so that […]
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Granny and Doc
Images surfacing in the developing tray. Two men: one younger, one older, surfers. Clearer now, seeming to step forward across Time’s barrier from somewhere in the 1930s. John Heath “Doc” Ball and LeRoy “Granny” Grannis, several years into a friendship they would maintain for over six decades. Granny followed the “Doc,” first as a kid surfer, next […]
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