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In December, justices on California’s 2nd District Court of Appeals denied a petition from Snap to overturn Riff’s ruling, paving the way for the proceedings in L.A. to resume.

The whole process — from snap to kick — ideally transpires in 1.3 seconds or less.

A wide wooden railing keeps probing eyes several feet away, and a deep buffer of camera-wielding tourists jostles for a snap to prove that they’d been in the presence of — well, not divinity, exactly, but close enough.

As someone who ordered a smoky, perfectly peppered pastrami on rye, with coleslaw, fries and a dill pickle with just the right snap to it, and dipped the crunchy corners of the rye bread into a smear of spicy mustard before each bite, sounds good to me.

Eye on the horizon, he senses a change in the weather, a different snap to the rippling canvas, a new chop to the sea.