[dd74]

Eh! I live in the epitome of what thinks it's real - Hollywood. But I also read and watch the news, and travel, and see that Hollywood is like a Disneyland with firearms and venereal disease, while the rest of the country -- until New York, becomes pompous and self-absorbed once again.

The thing is this: you alone have to base your own reality. I think of people as genuinely kind-hearted and social. Some people , I think, can even conduct themselves with a modicum of responsibility at times.

I mean what choice is there? We have to stay ahead of chimpanzees. I heard only today of a chimp in New Orleans who knows how to make both cafe au laits and gumbo etoufee.