You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ Living over a diabolical, dirt filled alley run by a Mexican street gang. The gang called itself the Harpy’s. I never heard of the Harpy before I moved to Scarff Street and I have never heard of them since. I guess they were a neighborhood gang that […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy!™ Having a 7 foot long, life size horse hanging from your ceiling. Now that’s Crazy! If Gilmore’s turnstile was cool. Then Mr. Ed was off the hook! Mr. Ed was lashed to 10 foot high ceilings. During parties, girls would stand on the coffee table, cocktail in one […]
You know what’s Crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy! Having a mechanical device count every time someone enters or exits your home. You heard me! Click. Click. Click. Scarff Street had a turnstile. Few people can say they had a turnstile in their home, unless they lived at Dodger Stadium under the bleachers. The Scarff Street Derelicts had […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. ™ College boys living in the ghetto. Now that’s crazy! We had just moved into the Scarff Street Palace. A 1500 square foot 2 bedroom ghetto apartment with more room than any of us had experienced in years. There was a large central living area and […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s Crazy ™ Scarff Street was crazy. Scarff Street is a real place, though it doesn’t seem real. In fact, so much craziness happened there, Scarff Street to me, feels “surreal” . Scarff Street is a secluded street in Los Angeles, surrounded by W. Adams, 23rd, Hoover and Figueroa. Scarff Street was […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. ™ Thinking chocolate will give you cancer, and then learning it fights cancer. Being told that tomato sauce has good antioxidants, then finding out it might be killing you. Hearing that coffee is dangerous to your health, only to learn that coffee is the new fountain of […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy! ™ Forgetting that you are living every man’s dream and then barfing it up all over your shoes in a technicolor what just happened? Whose riding on this week’s painted pony of stupid you ask? Big Ben Roethlisberger. The star quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers was suspended […]
DR WIGGINS III You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. Dead man walking to a dentist chair in the middle of a ghetto apartment. That’s the crazy scene I find myself in as Dr. Wiggins’ old man eyes bore a hole through my soul. He is standing there smiling, his blue eyes hypnotizing […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy! Dental care on a budget. That’s crazy. In Dr. Wiggins Part one: You’ll recall that one of my beloved frat brothers had just broken my tooth with a small tree. Looking like the elephant man, with a lip so swollen, and a tooth so “jacked”, I […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy!™ Going to a ghetto dentist to get your teeth fixed. I know it sounds crazy, but that’s exactly what I did. Going Ghetto is totally a third world manuever that you orchestrate only because you have to. You go Ghetto only when you are buying crack […]