Rumpus Room
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
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
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
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
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 […]
