How to Be a Human at the Chateau Marmont

"Lindsay Lohan and Courtney Love were the worst behaved when both were at the height of their drug abuse while living in the hotel during my time there, but I don't hold it against them."

When I lived in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, not Colonial) between 2014 and 2015, I spent thousands of hours at Dardy Bar, so much so that I would talk about the place as if I owned it. My therapist referred to it as my "totem" and suggested it represented some elusive level of ease and happiness I couldn't find elsewhere. There actually was one other place …