YESTERDAY, MORNING ABOUT 7:30 AM I WAS WALKING ACROSS GRAND STREET HEADING FOR THE AHMANSON...

WHEN I NOTICED A TALL WELL LIT BUILDING WITH THE NAME :"JOHN FERRARA BUILDING , AND TO THE LEFT OF THIS BUILDING WERE COFFERS INTERNATIONAL IN SCOPE...DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF ME WAS THE DEPT OF WATER AND POWER...UPON FURTHER SCRUTIN I READ AN INSCRIPTION:"DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF OUR FELLOW EMPLOYEES WHO LOST THEIR LIVES PROVIDING WATER AND ELETRIC SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF LOS ANGELES"... I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FOR SEVERAL MOMENTS TURNING AWAY OBSERVING THE "REFLECTING POOL" NEARBY DEDICATED TO JAMES H ANTHONY, A TRIBUTE TO HIM, DATED JULY 18, 1938 - FEB 11TH-1989... AND AS I WAS REFLECTING ON THE REFLECTING POOL I THOUGHT TO MYSELF HOW MANY "JOHNS" THERE WERE AND ARE IN THE WORLD...WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BUILDING WAS AN ELEGANT BROWN GOOSE, RATHER TALL IN SIZE FOR A NON HUMAN, AND HE BALANCED HIMSELF STANDING ON ONE LEG AS THE LEADING BALLERINA IN SWAN LAKE...AND QUITE SUDDENLY JUST MOMENTS AGO, I THOUGHT OF THE MOVIE, "THE BLACK SWAN", SOMEWHAT MEDIOCRE IN MY OPINION...WHICH DOESN'T MATTER, MY OPINION, BUT WHAT DOES MATTER, IS WHAT IS TRUE PERHAPS... THE CONSPIRACY THEORY...REMEMBER THE DREAM SEQUENCE BY THE FEMALE PROTAGONIST, "THE BLACK SWAN", AND THAT SAME PERSON WHO HAD APPEARED IN THE FILM WITH DENZEL WASHINGTON, "ELIE'S BOOK" IS IT, WHICH I HAD COMMENTED ON WHILE IN NEW YORK STAYING AT THE LOFT IN HARLEM, WHICH ONCE AGAIN I WAS THINKING AT THE TIME OF MY GLOBAL PLAN... AND ONCE AGAIN I MUST PUT THE QUESTION UPON THE TABLE, "WHY THIS SPECIFIC ACTRESS, WHO IS SHE REPRESENTING AND WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHARLATONS HERE IN THE UNITED STATES SPEAKING ALL SORTS OF LANGUAGES, WHICH IS NOT BAD, I THINK INTERNATIONALLY AS WELL, UP TO A POINT...WHY AMERICA...BECAUSE AMERICANS ARE BASICALLY TOO GOOD FOR THEIR OWN GOOD. THE BROWN GOOSE WAS SPEAKING TO ME, AND AS HE TURNED HIS HEAD, I NOTICES THE RUSTLING AND A SHADOW PASS BY THE BLINDS, AS IF A GHOST WAS ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE...I ENTERED THE BUILDING SPEAKING TO A SECURITY GUARD WHO SAID I COULD COME BACK TO SEE THE MULHOLLAND EXHIBIT AND ALL OF A SUDDEN AN ELEVATOR DOOR TO THE RIGHT OPENED AND A RATHER ROTUND FEMALE WHO MAY OR MAYNOT HAVE BEEN WEARING DARK GLASSES CAME STOMPING ACROSS THE LOBBY IN HER HIGH HEELS FOLLOWED BY A SWARTHY SMILING PERSON AND I SUSPECTED THAT THEY WERE TOGETHER THOUGH HE WAS BRINGING UP THE REAR OF THE DUO SET. I PAID THEM NO ATTENTION LOOKING AROUND THE LOBBY AT THE VARIOUS PLAQUES, SO MANY OF THEM REGARDING CALIFORNIA AND ITS SOMEWHAT AMBIGUOUS AND QUESTIONABLE HISTORY. WHAT DID IT ALL MEAN. I WAS BECOMING EMOTIONALLY EMBROILED IN SOMETHING I HADN'T YET FIGURED OUT, BUT THEN I HAD REMEMBERED THE FERRARA NAME, SUCH AS GERALDINE FERRARO A NEW YORK POLITICIAN WHO HAD DIED SOME YEARS AGO, AND I WAS WONDERING IF THE TRIBUTE MENTIONING THE MANY EMPLOYEES OF THE DWP HAD ANY REFERENCES TO THAT NAME, AND THERE WAS "ARTIST" FERRARO WHO SUDDENLY APPEARED AT MERIT FINANCIAL VIRTUALLY OUT OF THE BLUE AFTER I HAD HELPED ENORMOUSLY IN GETTING MERIT FINANCIAL BACK ON ITS FEET, AND SHE WAS A FRIEND OF TERRY PLOTSKY, THE VERY GENTLEMAN THAT HAD SAT IN MY LIVING ROOM OVER AT MASSELIN AVENUE AFTER I HAD RESURRECTED THE DUPLEX AND HE ABD SAN SHAW AND I HAD DISCUSSED MY BLACK CINDERELLA MUSICIAL AND SAM GAVE ME A NUMBER TO CALL OF A MAN NAMED, "COLE PORTER", BUT WASN'T HE DEAD? (MORE ON THIS LATER) SUDDENLY I BECAME DISTRACTED BY AN OVERLY EXPRESSIVE SQUAWKING AND I LEFT THE LOBBY AND WENT TO MY LEFT TO VISIT THE BROWN GOOSE AND RATHER THERE STOOD A MAN, SMOKING WHO WAS THE SAME MAN FOLLOWING THE ROTUND FEMALE IN A DRESS WAY TOO TIGHT, INTERESTING THOUGH, SINCE SHE STILL EXHIBITED CURVES AND WAS SOPHTIC RATHER THAN CONSIDERED PLUMP. I APPROACHED HIM AND HIS SMILE BROADENED, AND THE SMILE REMINDED ME OF A SNAKE. I STOPPED A FEW FEET AWAY AND HE COULDN'T MAKE EYE CONTACT AND THE BROWN GOOSE CONTINUED TO SPEAK, SQUAWKING LOUDLY DEFINETLY SENDING IMPORTANT MESSAGES WHICH I HAD YET TO DECIPHER...I WATCHED SILENTLY AND HE SPOKE ABOUT THE GOOSE FREQUENTLY BEING THERE, "YOU MEAN HERE IN THE MORNING?" "YES" AND HE STILL COULDN'T LOOK ME IN THE EYE, FINALLY I ASKED HIM WHAT HE DID, AND HE SAID, "I'M IN ACCOUNTING"...AND EVENTUALLY I ASKED HIS NAME, AND HE REPLIED, SAYING IT,S DIFFICULT"..."SPELL IT"..."E-L-E-A-T-A-N" "NOT DIFFICULT.." AND YOUR LAST NAME, HE SAID IT ONCE, QUIETLY, I COULDN'T HEAR SO I ASKED AGAIN, "PADMO" AND I REPEATED IT MAKIJNG IT TWO SYLLABALS, "PAD MORE" LIKE PADDING BILLS...PAD MORE...LIKE WHAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING FOR HOW LONG I THOUGHT TO MYSELF. AND I SUDDENLY THOUGHT ABOUT MY ANY OTHER RECENT DISCOVERIES WHILE TRAVELING, THE SAME BAD ROADS, WITH THE EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DIRT AND GRIME ON THE CRUDDY ASPHAULT, AND I HAD NOTICED EARLIER, THE PARADE OF NEW PLAYERS THAT WERE ENTERING THAT BUILDING. EVENTUALLY MR PADMORE LEFT, AND I ATTEMPTED TO GET AROUND THE BARRIERS THAT WERE THERE, AND I NOTICED THE REFLECTING POOL WAS NOT DEEP AT ALL, AND SUDDENLY I GOT A MILD PANIC ATTACK WHEN I NOTICED THAT MY BURLAP BAG THAT CONTAINED MY WRITING WAS MISSING. I HURRIED REENTERED THE BUILDING, AND ALREADY, THERE WAS A NEW UNIFORMED GUARD, NAMED, "SALSA" AND HE TOO WAS IN UNIFORM SUITED MORE FOR THE MILITARY THAN FOR THE UTILITY DEPARTMENT. WHAT THE HELL WAS GOING ON, AND MY HEART SPEEDED UP AND THE ADRENALIN RUSH WITHOUT CAFFEIN CLICKED IN, AND I YELLED THAT MY ID AND MONEY AND THINGS HAD BEEN STOLEN, AND MR. SALSA, WAS ALREADY TAPPING HIS WELL MANICURED FINGERS ON THE KEYBOARD OF THE COMPUTER NOT LOOKING AT ME, "MR SALSA I NEED TO SPEAK TO YOUR SUPERVISOR, WHO IS YOUR SUPERVISOR?!" AND HE STILL NOT LOOKING SAID, "AHH," STAMMERING, BECAUSE OF COURSE HE WAS NEW AT HIS APPOINTED POSITION, WHICH HE PRESUMED MAYBE, LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES BEFORE. AND AS I WALKED THROUGH THE MOCK SECURITY AS ART, I NOTICED THE WALL OF INVESTORS, THOSE RESPONSIBLE...FOR WHAT YOU MAY ASK? DO WE REALLY NEED TO AT THIS POINT. TBC (C)COPYRIGHTED BY GWENDOLYN MITCHELL ON JUNE 3, 2016 AT 4:20PM LOS ANGELES, AT THE WILL ARIEL LIBRARY IN HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028. NOTE:I SEE THERE HAS BEEN UNAUTHORIZED EDITING, SPECIFICALLY REMOVING THE SENTENCE REGARDING MY CROSSING TO THE AHMANSON...DISCOVERED TODAY, TUESDAY JUNE 7, 2016 AT 3:05 AT THE WILL AND ARIEL LIBRARY IN HOLLYWOOD, 90028.