reeking

But from the ground, where I’ve spent much of the last two months, I haven’t seen enough rehab, or enough of an attempt to make the park safe for kids, or to clean up reeking heeps of trash, or to send a loud and clear message that it’s not OK to sell and buy and use deadly drugs in the open.

By Day 7, even with the backyard reeking like an industrial accident at a toothpaste factory, the tiny trio of terrorists was back in full force.

Far from the handsome man she has pictured, he struts in with an “air of cheap assurance” and flashes his trinkets, reeking of cheap cologne, hair coated in bear grease.

The best known are probably the Cabazon Dinosaurs, the world’s tallest thermometer, the Winchester Mystery House, the formerly reeking Harris Ranch, the Paul Bunyan statue in Klamath and the giant Randy’s Donuts sign visible from the 405 freeway.

His goal, pointedly, is to create a sui generis existence fit for the New World, symbolized by his unique variety of apple: “No pampered English import, no effete Continental still reeking of the paws of some French fruitier,” he proclaims.