Description: Take a creative spirit living in L.A., a tube of scarlet lipstick, various domestic problems, too little money, and a driving sexiness and you have a super vixen in the making. Hillary Johnson recounts her experience of living in the city where vast pockets of weirdness, perversion, and opportunity change, vanish, and rejuvenate continually. You can be anyone, anything, anytime. You can kick your boyfriend out of the house and call Dial-A-Stud for the night on your cellular phone. You can witness elegance turn to kitsch by the blue pools of the Chateau Marmont. You can see power turn to depravity at the Hefner estate. You can try to get your kid into Montessori. Hillary Johnson, journalist, mother, self-proclaimed super vixen, describes day-to-day living in L.A.: relationships, earthquakes, work, child-rearing, party-going, sex, the monumental task of trying to feel sane. Johnson's L.A. is the living definition of Buckminster Fuller's concept of a Dymaxion. A Dymaxion is a world unto itself, where all parts are necessary to and available for one another. Think of George and Jane Jetson's dream kitchen and you'll begin to get the idea. L.A.'s many scenes are connected by convenient highways and freeways: it's the Galapagos Islands of culture. A single soul whirls around, picking up experience, disposing of old traits, retaining some qualities, reinventing himself all in the name of living in L.A.

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