"Forget it, Jake...

...it's Chinatown". Would somebody please explain this to me? Cause, it's not Chinatown at all,  it's the John Huston character causing all the trouble. "Chinatown" is possibly meant to symbolize a complex place in which Jake Gittes is an innocent/foreigner, but the phrase does not work as irony.  Are you simply meant to cross out "Chinatown" and substitute "Los Angeles"? What am I complaining about? It just seems that the defining phrase of the film doesn't actually contain any meaning, it just sounds wicked cool. But feel free to disagree with me.

Nother ?

Blinding revelation or occlusion of vision? So hard to know, and sometimes it's both together.Is this what Buddha meant by the middle way?  Not finished with the questions, evidently. 

Anyway, some windows it's better to fall out of with confetti in your hair. If you know who I am paraphrasing, you know who'll you see in paper form here tomorrow. 

I was in San Francisco again and bought a cannoli at Victoria Pastry. It was yummy. Don't you wish you'd been there? More San Francisco photos later this week.