[lindyhop]

Is anyone familiar with D. J. Waldie? He wrote this beautiful book called Holy Land and he occasionally writes pieces for the L.A.Times. I met him at the Festival of Books a few years ago. He has a new book out which is a collaboration with Diane Keaton about So Cal Spanish Revival architecture. And this morning I heard him on a radio segment about local street names. The piece was about a street in Lakewood and since he's information officer (something like that) for the city of Lakewood it was natural for him to take part.

So I'm driving through Lakewood this morning to my usual coffee place and because of the radio piece I'm thinking about Lakewood street names and D. J. Waldie. I'm just fascinated that this real author person is local and not in some ivory tower somewhere (I recognized him coming out of Best Buy once) so I'm wondering if he ever goes to my coffee place and I'm imagining what I might say to him. And I glance over to this man walking along the street and...it's D. J. Waldie.

What a ridiculous coincidence.