VL-IV p 23

[Michael Bailey]

due diligence for p 22:
Reagan was governor of California from 1967-1973
there doesn't seem to be a Gordita Beach
Sepulveda is an LA street but continues south as Pacific Coast Highway

the fog coming up reminds me the the snow in Dubliners,
also the image of the house, sturdy, but its paint jobs and outer
appearance changing eerily over the years due to the fog (cf The Fog
(1980) featuring Adrienne Barbeau) - and a whiff of Chapel Perilous?

p23:
straightforward dialogue, Hector and Zoyd - with cameos of D'Artagnan
and Larry Fine, er, Scott Oof ("leaning on the doorjamb playing with
his hair) and van Meter (does he even have a first name, or is he like
Van Johnson (RIP)?)

"Nobody here's into nothing federal," Zoyd didn't think.
(If he would have thought, though, he'd have remembered that pot was
indeed a federal crime due to the racist rantings of Harry Anslinger
in collusion with the lumber magnates eliminating competition from
hemp)

Also, "nothing federal" - that same distinction of "scale" - "not
making a federal case of it"

"Much celebrated in the folklore of my people" - so Zoyd and Scott and
Hector are all locals...

Pretty straightforward scene-setting, I can't think of too many ways
to yammer on about it.

Oh, one last thing: "...the matter of drugs." "Thank God," screamed
van Meter, "it's been weeks, we thought we'd never score again" -
straight out of a Furry Freak Brothers comic.