Long ago, while my friend Steve, a cartoonist, and I sat lamenting our poverty, he suggested I write a short story for the swinging singles’ magazine to which he'd agreed to contribute a weekly strip. …
May 21, 1992
News & Stories
A story of World War II Tijuana
The L.A. Times gets soused on its own margarita hoax
Syd finds Senor Herrera to be a charming old raconteur. Herrera even claims to have invented the margarita. This is a nice bit of local color, and Syd does a story about it for the Baja Times.
May 21, 1992
Judith Moore bakes a pie – a transformation that is almost sorcery
My father loved Mary’s chicken pie, and she was fixing us one for dinner. To make the pie, she had to start out by stewing what she called “an old hen.” The hens arrived headless.
May 21, 1992