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Filed in Posts That Pay The BillsIt’s May 2006, and A Little Twist of Texas is hot off the press. My friend and I step off the bus and catch a cab to our hotel, ready for the morning’s festivities.
Morning comes, and we’re on our way to Los Angeles Harley-Davidson to sell books. It’s a women in motorcycling event, a parking lot sale, and I’m the least professional vendor there. We do our best with a tablecloth and borrowed table, meeting and greeting an endless stream of leather-clad travelers. At the end of the day I’ve sold six books but learned more than their weight in gold; I also have a plastic tub full of prospects’ names and addresses.
The event is over, and we head back to Chinatown where we’re sharing a room in a wonderful hotel with dragons and a pagoda roof. On the way up my friend spots the Walt Disney center and we walk up there in the cooling afternoon, spending a delighted hour enraptured by its curved and mirrored insanity. The building is a dream within a dream, and sparks a creative mood that’s been exhausted by the long slow birth of my book.
If we’d been in New York we might have gotten the same spark from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but here it’s out there, glistening in the rapidly sinking sun.
Back in the little Chinatown, we admire a Buddhist temple and rows of little red lanterns strung up across the street. Ornate gates wrapped around with dragon mark the boundaries, and yet ironically we dine in a little Mexican restaurant. The previous night our experience with a local Chinese eatery had proven mediocre and greasy, so we switched to something tastier and quite incongruous.
Finishing the night with an order of sweet dumpling, we drink our beers and fall asleep. There are plenty of things to do in Los Angeles, and we’re dog (or should that be hog?) tired.
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