The Last Chili Cheese Fries of the Decade
By Ryan - Tuesday December 29th 2009 |
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SETTING
Piggie’s Charbroiled
4601 W Rosecrans Ave
Hawthorne, CA
SOUNDTRACK
Flaming Lips
Oh My Gawd!!!…The Flaming Lips
6 Jan 1987 (Restless)
LOCAL TIME
1pm PST
29 December 2009
Sun streams harshly through the window here in Hawthorne, right onto the table, right onto the plate before me. $4.19 for the “large” because, yeah, I’m feeling In Charge. Take seat next to corner booth inhabited by three of Hawthorne’s Finest: One on duty with talkie dialed low, two off-duty in Sunday civvies. All three grousing about the job and casting the occasional wary eye my way. I’m just eating chili fries, boys; rest assured I bitch about my job just as much as you, end of day. One Decade!!! A full decade in Los Angeles. How in the hell have I pulled it off, exactly? How have I survived!? Why did I stay!? What kept me!? How Have I Changed Los Angeles For The Better, and, How Has She Changed Me? Sunlight streams onto the plate harshly still and I ponder various chili-coated plates that have confronted me over the course of the last decade, here in smog central. This one’s harmless when stacked ‘gainst the past, to be sure; still, no easy lunch, this. I throw down the fork, douse the pepper’s heat with a swig of ice water and hit the sidewalk. Inhaling, it hits me like a flash of lightning: It is good to be here, Los Angeles right now on this 29th of December 2009 Anno Domini. I gulp the air, form fists triumphantly and shout to no-one, “Oh My Gawd!!!”
The Last Chili Cheese Fries of the Decade
OR HAS IT???
OH MY GAWD!!!…
Be sure to check back in 2010 when Ryan live-blogs his seventh (7th) angioplasty! -ed



That’s some DEEP end shit bro. Hawthorne, chili cheese fries, $4.19, that’s how you survived in LA for a decade. Here’s to another!
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