It's not about the spectacular. The significant stuff is the weird, bizarre and seemingly insignificant. The stuff you don't see until life teaches you where to look. The details. Reality is the Korean American dot.com girl turned crack whore hooking out of the Sunset Palms motel on Sunset, her fall not yet complete because she can still put on a good corporate front, fool others and mostly herself into thinking she's still got it going on when the truth is she gives blowjobs for crack money, bummed out she says because the maid service isn't as good at the Sunset Palms as it was at the Saharan and maybe it isn't, but the truth is she was thrown out of the Saharan because she couldn't pay her bill and she couldn't pay her bill because she was in jail and she was in jail because she's a hooker who gives blowjobs for crack money. It no longer matters that she was a big dot.com girl, not anymore, the operative word being was, and maybe if she's lucky one day she'll be able to say she was a crack whore, the operative word still being was, but not yet. She's a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend and nobody has traced it all the way back to somebody who actually knows or knew her, she says she wants help but it's hard for her to ask for it, what she really wants is her old life as a dot.com girl handed back to her, but her old life as a dot.com girl somehow brought her to being a crack whore working out of the Sunset Palms motel; she hasn't figured out she really needs a new life instead, and anyhow she's not ready, she doesn't like the rehab someone found her because it's not close enough to the beach, there's no swimming pool and it's full of junkies and crack whores like her.

She has to be loaded to give blow jobs, she has to give blowjobs to be loaded, she hasn't quite figured out that the noose is tightening. She's still annoyed about the maid service and won't go to a rehab without a swimming pool. She's not done yet. Maybe she'll be done when she hits MacArthur Park, you can't bullshit yourself too long with your own corporate hustle and smooth talk when you're homeless at 6th and Alvarado, and then the days of moderately paying blowjobs and bad maid service at the Sunset Palms will be bitterly and desperately remembered as the good life, like the dot.com days are remembered now. Like the rock'n'roll days are remembered by this guy who was famous in the early '80's, who looked desperate with hope two years ago when I saw him with his 15 years younger and much much harder little German girlfriend, who now just seems hopeless when I see him in his beat-up old Toyota pulling out of the driveway of the Sunset Palms.

I drive by the Sunset Palms almost every day. I probably drove by the used to be a dot.com girl plenty of times. I would've never noticed her. I would've never known she used to be a dot.com girl or that she's a crack whore now. Life is full of details. I miss most of them.

Crime Blotter is full of details, the stuff you never notice, the stuff that makes up real life, the weird, twisted banalities of sex and drugs and anger and violence and passion and junkie hustles. The fat woman in a yarmulke masturbating in her car; the octogenarian pervert rubbing his dick against women at bus stops, the cholos chasing faggots, the cholos who are faggots, the cholitas beating each other up with platform shoes over boys, the old men battling each other with canes at nursing homes over the television volume, the transsexual shoplifters, the gang bangers on silly string rampages on Hollywood Boulevard, and the guys who wake up with their pants around their ankles and soreness in the buttocks, all written up in deadpan LAPD incident report prose. Every one of these terse reports is part of someone's story, and the stories may be deadeningly banal or just plain deadening. A sampling of real life on the streets and sidewalks of Hollywood:.

Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2001:
6500 block of Fountain Avenue. A 25-year-old woman returned to her home to find the word "bitch" scratched onto her door and property missing. The victim told police she suspected a former girlfriend, who was angry that the relationship had ended. The suspect is described as a 22-year-old Latina standing 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 125 pounds.

Friday, Nov. 9 2001:
5:05 p.m., 6000 block of Cadillac Avenue. A man became angry with a woman at a hospital while waiting for service and threw a cup of urine at her, striking the victim in the chest.

Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001
1 a.m., corner of Lexington Avenue and Seward Street. An assailant threatened a 25-year-old man and a 30-year-old man with a sprinkler spike, yelled, "Come here faggots, I'm going to get you!" and chased the victims. The suspect is described as a Latino in his mid- to late 20s and standing 5 feet 6 inches tall.

Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001
4 p.m., 1300 block of Vine Street. A 40-year-old man tried to sell a pair of shoes. The robber asked the victim to place the shoes on a table, then brandished a stun gun and a pastry cutter and ordered the victim to leave the premises without the shoes. The suspect is described as a 19-year-old Latino, standing 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 129 pounds.

Thursday, Aug. 2, 2001
11:50 a.m., 7000 block of Hollywood Boulevard. A 43-year-old woman was molested by a man who rubbed his groin on her waist and buttocks as she stood on the sidewalk. The suspect is described as a 34-year-old Caucasian man standing 6 feet tall and weighing 170 pounds.

Tuesday, July 31, 2001
1 p.m., 400 block of Sierra Bonita Avenue. A 41-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man were engaged in an argument over a package, when the man became enraged. He then pulled his pants down, exposing his buttocks and stated "Kiss my ass," in Russian.

Friday, July 27, 2001
10 p.m., corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. A 15-year-old girl was shoved and struck with a belt by two assailants, who she said didn't like her because one of them saw her kissing the ex-boyfriend of one of the assailants.

Friday, July 27, 2001
5:30 p.m., corner of Vermont Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard. A 40-year-old Caucasian woman standing 5 feet tall and weighing 200 pounds, wearing a yarmulke and glasses, approached the victim and a witness in a vehicle. "Come here, get in. Let me give you a ride," the woman said. The victim looked inside the vehicle and saw the woman was masturbating.

Friday, July 27, 2001
9:30 p.m., 4900 block of Fountain Avenue. A husband and wife were arguing about the assailant's drinking. The man got upset and headbutted his wife.

Wednesday, July 25, 2001
10 p.m., 1200 block of North Vermont Avenue. An assailant threatened the victim with bodily harm. The suspect is described as a Caucasian woman standing 5 feet tall and weighing 300 pounds.

Friday, July 6, 2001
5:50 p.m., 1100 block of Western Avenue. A 19-year-old man was struck by another man with a broom outside his apartment building. The suspect is described as a 38-year-old Latino standing 5 feet 7 inches tall weighing 190 pounds.
6:10 p.m., 1100 block of Western Avenue. A 39-year-old man was struck by another man with a broom outside his apartment building. The suspect is described as an 18-year-old Latino standing 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 129 pounds.

Thursday, July 5, 2001
8:25 p.m., 7100 block of Sunset Boulevard. A woman had her buttocks grabbed for unknown reasons in a grocery store by a man, who then said, "You can't call it sexual harassment because I'm not an employee." The suspect is described as a 40-year-old Caucasian man with gray hair, standing 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds.

Thursday, July 5, 2001
10:30 p.m., corner of Orange Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard. A 36-year-old man was assaulted by two men. One of them struck the victim on the head with a metal pipe while the other punched him in the neck with his fist. The man, who was knocked unconscious by the blows, awoke to discover his pants unbuttoned and soreness in his buttocks. The suspects are described as African-American men in their early to mid-20s.

Monday July 2, 2001
5 p.m., corner of Stanley Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. Two women observed a man masturbating while he followed them in his car. The suspect is described as an Asian-American man, between 20 and 30 years old, with black hair and a fair complexion. He was driving a late-model maroon Mercedes, license plate number 3FGL368.

Friday, June 8, 2001
Noon, corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Sycamore Avenue. A man approached a woman from behind and pressed his genitals against her buttocks while fondling himself. The suspect, in custody, is described as an 81-year-old Latino man standing 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighing 150 pounds.

Friday, June 8, 2001
2:30 p.m., corner of Hobart and Hollywood boulevards. The victim saw a man engaging in an act of lewd conduct in a place that provided no expectation of privacy-the sidewalk. The suspect, in custody, is described as a 48-year-old Latino standing 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 185 pounds.

Thursday, June 7, 2001
12:55 p.m., 1800 block of North Western Avenue. A thief entered a drug store carrying an empty purse with a shoulder strap. The thief selected items which he placed in the purse and left without paying. The suspect, in custody, is described as a 31-year-old Latino standing 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds.

Tuesday, April 24, 2001
5:45 p.m., 5500 block of Sunset Boulevard. A man whistled to draw the attention of a 14-year-old girl, then exposed himself. The flasher is described as Latino in his mid-30s or early 40s. No further description of the suspect was available.

Monday, April 23, 2001
2 a.m., 1100 block of Western Avenue. A 23-year-old Latino asked a 29-year-old Latino for a date. When the older man refused, the suspect attempted to stab him in the chest with a knife. The suspect is described as standing 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 135 pounds, with words tattooed on his right hand.

Monday, April 23, 2001
7:30 a.m., 6700 block of Santa Monica Boulevard. Witnesses reported seeing a 31-year-old African American man pull his pants down and expose his penis and buttocks. The flasher is described as standing 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 165 pounds.

Saturday, Nov. 18 2000
8:30 p.m., 300 block of Hayworth Avenue. Following an argument over the volume of a television at a nursing home, a 70-year-old Caucasian man and a 63-year-old Latino each reported to police that the other man had struck him with a cane.

Friday, Nov. 17, 2000
8 a.m., 1300 block of Sycamore Avenue. A 34-year-old Caucasian man reported that, during disputes, his tenant, a 39-year-old Caucasian woman, throws bricks at his feet.

Thursday, Nov. 16, 2000
4:30 p.m., 1400 block of Normandie Avenue. An African American male, standing 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 160 pounds, and his mother, standing 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds, entered his girlfriend's home and grabbed her. The mother attempted to strike the victim with a baseball bat while the boyfriend held the victim's arms.

Sunday, Nov. 12, 2000
2 a.m., 6000 block of Hollywood Boulevard. A 22-year-old Latina was attacked by seven other Latinas following a verbal dispute. The seven suspects pummeled the victim with unknown hard objects, possibly wooden platform shoes, and then fled.