Mat Happy 80th Birthday: Was Wolfman Jack “The Force” ? This Sunday would have been Wolfman Jack’s 80th birthday. Brooklyn-born Robert Weston Smith, aka Wolfman Jack, passed away at age 57 in the Summer of 1995 almost forgotten after a period of blazing hot celebrity ubiquity the likes of which no deejay before or since has …
Saturday night was our first official art opening since Labor Day weekend. 125 days, wow. So much has changed since then. It was a good, consistent crowd all night and everyone got to see a great show. Thanks to Loren Philip for organizing a sweet selection of painters. One thing on all of our minds …
I was driving East on Slauson heading out to the suburbs on the evening of January 2. I decided to take Telegraph out instead of the 5 South. Just as I was under the 5, in the right lane ready to turn right at the next light – two cop cars with their red and …
What if the protests against the galleries in Boyle Heights are not really protests about gentrification. What if they are protesting the very existence of commercial art galleries? Who would be against galleries? Well, absent the totally fallible “art galleries cause gentrification” argument, there remains one subset of people who are against commercial art galleries. …
So the Wall Street Journal had a salute to Jack In The Box's tacos today and it brought back a flood of memories of bygone days when I didn't give a fucking thought to tomorrow… aka, my mis-spent youth. http://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-eat-554-million-jack-in-the-box-tacos-a-year-and-no-one-knows-why-1483465285 The fact is they are two for ninety-nine-cents. there is no better deal on Earth. …
Almost all art world doctrine boils down to rejecting the values of the middle class. When you hear the term "BOURGEOISE" it basically means the middle class. The people who have to get up and go to work so they can support a family that can thrive without ever really getting to the point where …
Well well well, we see how it is going to go in the coming Trump administration. Today was the blueprint. After insisting that he never settles lawsuits, the President-Elect settled the Trump University lawsuit for $25 mIllion. This disturbed the news cycle domination of his meeting with Mitt Romney, the biggest news coming out of …
I had to break the news to my wife that Trump might win. We'd been in that bubble that believed he did not have a chance. A comfortable place. We had gone to see two movies that Tuesday afternoon so that we could avoid any bluster he made about the thing being rigged. Our plan …
RIP Tom Hayden, 76. My grandparents fought the eminent domain of their property in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica in the 1950s to the point that the city "settled" with them by giving them a turn of the century Victorian home a block from the beach between Neilsen and PCH back when that …
0. 1974 SHITWORKER at my dad’s machine shop – this one is listed as ZERO because it does not count on the list of seven JOBS because it was family forced labor, it was mandatory, you can quit a job but the only time off from this work was when I managed to get any …
I predict that Hillary Clinton will win the 2016 Presidential Election. Sure I can base this prediction on common sense and what I WANT to happen, but HOPE is the #2 enemy of the objective forecaster (#1 is “worry”). So I wanted to objectively look at the situation thru the astrological birth charts of her …
This artist was miserable. He had never quite gone to the heights career-wise that he felt his art had achieved and that he, therefore, deserved. The art world is the epitome of “Many are called, few are chosen.” A lot of artists give up on the art world, on pursuing exhibitions and many give up …