This is a story about Pigs

I believe in God.  But we’ll get back to that.

I remember once, years ago, when I lived in SKorea, a  native girl I dated for a year and a half, she told me, “I prefer pork to beef.” I’d never in my life heard someone opine that, but I had to agree: pork tastes better than beef. At the taco truck, I usually order carnitas ( Read more... )

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With Napalm...with Marijuana....with a clenched fist...with the history of the world. -- Mike Watt


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Last night, driving home in my Cadillac Car from Chepe Escondido’s East LA home studio to my Condo in Westwood, listening to rock n roll radio the entire way, the final song I heard was Bob Segar doing:

Rock N Roll Never Forgets

It seemed an appropriate song to end the night, and an appropriate title for this piece.

Neither Chepe and I are huge fans ( Read more... )

                      Another Day in LA

There are things that bother people. Not simply irrational fears, called phobias, but deeply rooted scar tissue. For example, a rape victim might freak out if she were watching a movie and there was a rape scene; whereas most people would react with a more controlled shock.

For me, it’s the LAPD. All my life as ( Read more... )

This is a work of Friction.  I mean, Fiction.  I don't know what I mean.  All's I know is
This is an excerpt from the follow up to my Culturebook Book Two:  My Youth in Asia. 
The following is an unedited excerpt from a piece entitled: Book Three: Culturebook Unity.

May 15, 2009

It’d been 2 years to the day since I first began working and living on ( Read more... )

             
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         Act Three contains no pictures

One last thing that deserves explanation: I live in LA, but I have no job, no income other than book sales, which are few and far between. I am, and have been for some time now, effectively broke with no cell phone, bank account; nothing in my name, with hardly anything purchased by me since about September ( Read more... )

As Balzac would say...TIme for a little premature showing off, Jack!

After 3 weeks of class, after going from I know OF photoshop to the present day,
here are my first two personal projects.  Before and Afters...


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