For 27 years I was a drug dealer. Circumstances have forced my retirement, but it was jolly good fun while it lasted. Naturally many will find this to be offensive, but then, what do you …
Thursday, September 24
Eighteen hours in the field, and my acquaintance with J. was doomed forever. He never got over my verbal abuse. We climbed together one last time a year after our adventure, but it just wasn’t the same.
Mexicans out here lie low. I know a Chicana poet who teaches at the University of Colorado, and every semester or so, some genius in a truck calls her a “greaser” or an “Injun.”
Thursday, September 17
There are the little men. Then there is Budd Boetticher. I don't mean his size — he's a compact man with an easy smile and vaguely Mongol eyes that hint at a barbaric zest for …
Thursday, September 10
The project dwarfed all others, save one. Linda Vista was larger in terms of units (4845 as opposed to the 3500 in Frontier), but the Linda Vista houses had mostly been built as “permanents”
The night sea off the coast of La Jolla was smothered in fog on December 18, 1917, and in those pre-sonar days the American submarine F-1 had no way of knowing that she was on …
For La Jolla residents worried about the "mansionization" of their community's older neighborhoods, another domino fell last week with the approval of a multilot house expansion on quiet Virginia Way. Like other older neighborhoods in …
Thursday, September 3
Beth, 25 Church's Fried Chicken — ghetto franchise, they don’t keep very good books. KFC kept meticulous records. I worked Church’s chicken, noticed that there was no record-keeping system. Other employees told me to eat …
The bookstore “pop-up” for Niek Tosches’s Ditto: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams reads: “The Great American Show Biz Story — Straight Up with a Hark Twist” — and dark it is. Darker …
The bookstore “pop-up” for Nick Tosches’s Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams reads: “The Great American Show Biz Story — Straight Up with a Dark Twist” — and dark it is. Darker …
“I got Starkist Charlie’s lunch kit and crackers.” “Do you have a sandwich?” “No, I don’t like sandwiches. Had a cantaloupe and Double-Tough Oreos.” “Double-Tough?” “Double-Tough.” “None of this Twinkie shit, just hard-ass Oreos.” “You got it.”