Before the Chop III

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Another one of these? Really? Makes you wonder what ol' Henry was like before hubris got to him. Well, it's hardly surprising. A man gets to a certain point and he thinks that he is owed something. Enough years in the vanity press game and even you might start thinking that it's real. This collection of one hundred pieces of writing represents years five and six of Henry's employment at the LA Weekly. The fact that he has not been canned perhaps causes mild astonishment. Why do they keep him on? Good question. It can't be the quality of the writing, can it? Absolutely not. Here's the answer: Henry came at a bargain. So happy to have a job that allowed him to write, he said yes to the salary, forgot the amount immediately and went to work. Yes, the pay is paltry but look at the writing. If it was a car, you'd never get off the lot. Oh, the topics that whiz and bang around in Henry's small and intellectually unchallenging universe! Why, he writes about all kinds of things,...