There had been indications, beginning with when the bathtub in the upstairs bathroom fell through the ceiling of the basement. Nobody was hurt, but it was an omen. Shortly after that fungus began growing on the basement walls.

There was a step-ladder in the upstairs bay window. The ladder was alone and looked out across “wop town" into the San Diego Bay and beyond, past North Island, Point Loma….

san diego, lyrics: mr. history looks down on the city i don’t want you to think san diego sounds funny. i don’t understand why the most powerful feeling this city evokes, at sunset, a sort …