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Subject:Re: LICENSE for WRITING required in LA From:Wally Glassett <wallyg -at- THEGRID -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 11 Nov 1997 11:27:05 -0800
Huber, Mike wrote:
> Unfortunately, this one is true.
>
> Technicaly, if you keep a diary in LA and eventualy use material from
> it
> in work that gets published, you owe back taxes, and penalties. This
> one
> is quite absurd, and will be overturned, but it is, at this point,
> true.
>
> LA, rather recently, legalized the reciting of poetry in public.
> Bizzare
> place.
Maybe the 'good fathers of the city' will take this to its logical
conclusion: levying taxes on thinking about writing.
Even though I was born and raised in the LA area and have no complaints
about that, I left the area as soon as I could and have never wanted to
go back - Mondo Bizarro indeed!...
