The Shark and the Lexus

Plotnik drives down to the corner to get a newspaper this Stiletto City morning, and Sarah Jessica Parker parks her Lexus next to him, and gets out of the car putting a baby into a back pack...wait. Sarah Jessica Parker is short. This woman is tall...oh, wait, she's Turkish or Persian, too. Every other thing about her seems like Sarah Jessica Parker, her posture, her clothes, her hair, the way she walks, but that's definitely not her nose...nope. Just another Stiletto City wannabe.

In Saint Plotniko one hears conversations about, oh, world peace or the Middle East or politics. In Stiletto City it's all about reality shows and bit parts and this line producer and that stylist...oh, and cars.

Stiletto City is like a poker game where the minimum buy-in is a Lexus. Anyone can play, even a Turkish girl who looks like Sarah Jessica Parker, but you have to have a Lexus or better to get in the door. Maybe a Prius, not sure.

Plotnik has noticed there is one particularly square-jawed, dark-haired face that is popular on TV down here, a few days stubble, a hundred glistening teeth and a heartless glare. Lots of guys are going for that look. They drive by, by the scores, in their Lexuses or Priuses, cell phones ablaze. They look like hungry sharks, but in the coffee houses they all have voices like Tom Ammiano.