Everything now: lessons from the city-state of Los Angeles

Lesson 1: Anything can happen at any second

Lesson 2: To be a somebody without a something is to be a nobody

Lesson 3: Some are footloose, some are barnacles

Lesson 4: Everything that has happened here will happen here again

Lesson 5: Risk a lot, win a little

Lesson 6: What happens next door happens in Madagascar

Lesson 7: There's nothing to see here, and that's the point.