These mostly Left Coast tales--dinosaur ballets, psycho teenage trustafarians, beggars, and bored delusional house cats and their rivals--snake from the wormhole of the 1960s, Ô70s, Ô80s, Ô90s, and 2000s. They give greetings from Little Beirut, post-earthquake El-Lay, and bebop New York City. Postcards lie, and liars always tell somebody's truth.ys tell somebody's truth.