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Wander to dinner Then we would awkwardly put our Yetis somewhere and go have dinner at either Muse or the Golden Bull.

And the Golden Bull is one of those staple neighborhood restaurants.

Or — his favorite — the Golden Bull steakhouse in Santa Monica Canyon. His fear of people putting two and two together in certain public spaces, however, didn’t stop him from patronizing Oil Can Harry’s, the venerable gay nightclub on Ventura Boulevard. His cover, he rationalized, was that he was a public servant. 

But he reels off a list of those whose deaths are publicly known to be of COVID-19: “Estrella Blanca Jr., Blackman II, Golden Bull, Matematico II.”

David B. Frye’s scenes of people worshiping a golden bull — a play on the golden calf — are set within shaped sculptural frames against a backdrop of imitation red paneling, evoking a rustic barn for mysterious rituals.