California Multilogue Two "Double Dumbass on You"

What I know of San Francisco I mostly know from Star Trek. The Cetacean Institute where they kept the whales is where the Exploratorium is. I went looking for the nuclear wessels, in Alameda, and found instead an elaborate Art Deco theater so I went inside and watched a movie. Being in California makes me want to watch movies. A new friend who owns the house where I'll be staying took me on a drive at sunset and there's this whole strip of old school bungalows and motels and for a minute I imagined she was Jimmy Stewart with an artificial background retreating behind us as she steadied the wheel with little jerks. And I wonder if California will ever seem real to me on its own terms and I realize it's none of my business and I don't care either way. Reality's a heavy load.