The following is a work of fiction.

Not Nick Nolte's Diary, Malibu, California
November 21, 2004

Ice

I drank a Coca-Cola today and didn't enjoy it. I'm not trying to be cute. I sneaked one of Manolo's from the bar fridge and poured it over some crushed ice on impulse. I hadn't had a Coke in maybe ten years, probably on the set of "I Love Trouble," but who knows? Well my distaste for it today confirms a lot of what I've been doing with my body. Once in my youth I hiked in the Kachina foothills outside Flagstaff for a week. When I got back into town all I wanted was a icy Royal Crown soda. Since then, the nouns may have changed, but the verbs stayed very much the same, Diary. The cumulonimbus clouds are tremendous today. Someone's going to get rained on.