When the rooster moved into one of the houses behind ours, it was just one more voice in this robust animal chorus. I asked my next-door neighbor if he had heard the rooster, nervous for a moment that he might say, "What rooster?" He didn't. He and his wife have a new baby, so he's also often up early and had heard the bird.
"Did you see the turkey?" he asked.
Life in Los Angeles isn't quite as glamorous as Hollywood makes it look
LA Times writer Marjorie Miller describes living in Koreatown, which is a few minutes drive from Hollywood:
