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Last 20 Shows Out Looking for the Spark Last week I got a little depressed. Yes, it happens even to the mostdedicated Angeleno. Maybe it was a post-election depression or maybe itwas part of the upcoming global depressionâ¦in any case, I needed to
access The Spark of Life...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Tree of NumbersRecently, while working his day job, the Urban Man almost set off yetanother global financial crisis. Really. All because of cell H33 onpage 5 of a spreadsheet I was constructing...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Warming Up L.A. LiveOnce I heard Kevin Starr, the great California historian, say a remarkable thing about L.A. He said, "Now that we've poured all this concrete, we have to learn to love concrete." And I remember thinking, "Yes! What a noble request to make of the human spirit. After all, here in L.A. someone is always building something large and cold and ugly. And surely, it's our job to go out and warm these structures up, not just with our bodies and our cash, but our affections."Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Warming Up 4th and MainAgain the other night, the Urban Man headed out to help warm updowntown L.A. Like many downtowns around the country, ours is a big,cold place after darkâ so as usual, it required some thousands of
Angelenos to get it done...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Watch for the Urban ManListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009: Not as Bad as You ThinkOnce again, itâs time to announce my highly-anticipated predictions for
the coming year. Once again, the Urban Man has been chatting up leading
psychics and diligently caucusing with unnamed sources...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Necessary BureaucracyTonight I want to tell you about the kiss of a beautiful woman. It was,I assure you, exquisite. But first we have a little bureaucracy tocomplete...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Getting RealLast week, the Urban Man attempted to spend a whole day gettingreal. No kidding: I tried to devote a full 24 hours to looking lifeboldly in the eye. I meant to stop dodging issues, deluding myself, orignoring bills stuffed in drawers. I intended not to duck hard facts,even if they hit me square on the forehead...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
ReasonablenessItâs the night before the inauguration, and like many Americans, the Urban Man has gone to dwell briefly in the 18th century. You remember the 18th Century: enlightenment, rationality, the belief in progress and common purposeâall things lately out of fashion.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Not the MessiahLike millions around the world, I was a tad disappointed on Inauguration Day. It was that downbeat speech, the man's refusal to assume the mantle of Messiah, or even flat-outpromise me a better world. I had anticipated the announcement of a newera or at least a fiery dawn. I had expected a Google-Earth zoom out toglobal truths...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Necessary BureaucracyTonight I want to tell you about the kiss of a beautiful woman. It was,I assure you, exquisite. But first we have a little bureaucracy tocomplete...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Standing at the EdgeI don't know about you, but even though the world is coming to an end,I haven't yet noticed any despair on the streets. The people I run intoseem curiously upbeat, in fact unusually free with their smiles. Newvitality has entered social gatherings. A strange optimism. Maybethat's because every time one world ends, another begins, and whoknowsâthe next world might be better...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Standing at the Edge, Part III don't know about you, but tonight the Urban Man feels ten monthspregnant. I'm lying here with a strangely distended belly, waitinghelplessly for the birth of a new world...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The New WorldJust after the election, I read a quote from a woman in France whosaid, "I think America is re-becoming a new world." All week long thatphrase rang musically in the ear of the Urban Man as he went lookingfor the new world right here in L.A....Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Last View of AtlantisWasn't it a shame that just before Athens fell, nobody snapped any picturesâ¦or okay, made a few sketches? I mean, wouldn't it be great to see how the Acropolis actually looked? The Roman Colosseum? The Colossus of Rhodes?...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Out Looking for the SparkLast week I got a little depressed. Yes, it happens even to the mostdedicated Angeleno. Maybe it was a post-election depression or maybe itwas part of the upcoming global depressionâ¦in any case, I needed to
access The Spark of Life...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Tree of NumbersRecently, while working his day job, the Urban Man almost set off yetanother global financial crisis. Really. All because of cell H33 onpage 5 of a spreadsheet I was constructing...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Warming Up L.A. LiveOnce I heard Kevin Starr, the great California historian, say a remarkable thing about L.A. He said, "Now that we've poured all this concrete, we have to learn to love concrete." And I remember thinking, "Yes! What a noble request to make of the human spirit. After all, here in L.A. someone is always building something large and cold and ugly. And surely, it's our job to go out and warm these structures up, not just with our bodies and our cash, but our affections."Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Warming Up 4th and MainAgain the other night, the Urban Man headed out to help warm updowntown L.A. Like many downtowns around the country, ours is a big,cold place after darkâ so as usual, it required some thousands of
Angelenos to get it done...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Watch for the Urban ManListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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