Wild For Sale

Three middle-aged friends emerge from a movie cubicle in a postmodern pink stucco cinemadrome, where they have just seen the latest David Lynch film, Wild at Heart. Crossing the Culture Center, they confront twenty-three restaurants and food shops and, after some confusion. sit down at an open-air cafe across from a museum where Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs are on exhibit.

A waitperson introduces himself. The three friends order decaf espressos. One is a suburban yuppie mana...