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Look! A Book! A Book TRAILER !

Look!    A Book!            A Book TRAILER !

Trailer for Jive 95 oral history by Ami Capen, daughter of my KSAN pal & mentor Stephen Capen amicapen.com

Krassner was too hip for the gloom

Krassner was too hip for the gloom

Good grief – Wavy Gravy On the night Paul Krassner died at 87 [July 21, 2019: “Long Live Lord & Atheist of Political Satire!”], some friends gathered in a Venice California backyard to joke & smoke & fuck around as obscenely as possible. In mourning celebration of a revolutionary life joyfully lived.  We felt good grief. […]

Everything Old Is Me Again

Everything Old Is Me Again

If you live in our fair city, you’ve seen Hollywood production crews on location sometimes around town. One recent morning, I’m sipping a triple espresso on ice outside Sweet Lady Jane Café & Bakery when a guy – sunglasses dangling on vest – appears at my table saying: “You’re in my shot.” I see lights […]

The Bathtub Treatment

The Bathtub Treatment

This all starts just before Christmas 2018 when my landlord (you know no story beginning with “my landlord” is heading anywhere good) leaves a note slapped on my apartment door: workmen are coming to take away my bathtub on December 27.  I think, this is absurd. Right?  

MY BRAIN ON FOOTBALL: Greatest hits and other debilitating memories from a no dreadlocks defensive backfield

MY BRAIN ON FOOTBALL: Greatest hits and other debilitating memories from a no dreadlocks defensive backfield

It’s all reflective of how pro football has become our pseudo-religion. Why else do you think they play it on the Sabbath?  Chris Erskine, LA Times February 4 2016 My mind is going. I can feel it.  HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14603566/former-steelers-wr-antwaan-randle-el-wishes-chosen-play-football Here it is Super Bowl week so when I read this […]

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