[joe-frank-list] 'Always'

russellbell at gmail.com russellbell at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 03:53:54 PST 2022


	A guy (Jerry Liebowitz?) is being treated by an allergist in
Santa Monica weekly.  He's working 16-17 hour days, is stressed.  As
he parks for an appointment a physician in a Mercedes parks so close
to him he can't open his door.  The physician just walks away, making
Jerry mad, so he keys his car.  The weeks after that he perpetrates
petty vandalism on the car: dirty boots from the trash, chattering
teeth from Toys-R-Us, a stack of pancakes...
	8:40: Larry tells Joe about a flight: a 'loud Long Island
woman' who talks a lot and a passenger who sits in the wrong seat and
reacts angrily to the stewardess when she asks him to move.  Larry
recites the poem he wrote about the angry guy.  Joe analyzes it.
	16:50: We're back to Jerry vandalizing the physician's
Mercedes, this time with a chess board, a cake, and rotten sardines.
	21:40: A guy (Jack Cheeseborough?  He tells the 'joke' at the
beginning of 'Evening sky', has a non-speaking credit in 'Green
Cadillac', which is also set in Washington DC) who lives on 15th & T
NW Washington DC (Adams-Morgan) loves his dogs.  The mailman fears
them, accuses Jack of siccing one of them (Lucky) on him.  Lucky had
already bit an old man, so an additional report could endanger him.
Jack gets so worked up he puts his violent pit bull mix (Blackie) in
the mailman's truck; the dog bites the mailman's face; Jack thinks the
dog could have killed him.  (I take this story as fictional.  The
references to DC's streets and neighborhoods are accurate, especially
Caroline Street, a 1-block street inside T & U, 15th & 16th - I had to
find it on a map.  I've lived there.)
	38:10: A street person (preacher?) (Moses Stone?), apparently
also in Washington DC, talks disconnectedly, with Biblical references.
	45:00: Jerry Liebowitz recounts not-paying his Continental
Cable bill, which involves eating grapes.
	48:40: Larry tells Joe about his latest difficulties with
Zachary.  (Larry calls him 'a 15-year-old arrogant bastard'.)  Zachary
can't remember to ask for a new Metro card at school, cuts detention,
dropped Spanish class.
	51:40: Zachary tells Joe his side of the story.
	56:40: A guy (Jack Cheeseborough?) tells Joe about raising
hell at Disneyland when he was 19 or 20.  He yells to people in a
people-mover car (a sky tram) that their cable is breaking.

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russell bell


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