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I still spit on the academy with every fiber of my being, devoting an inordinate amount of energy to imagining fanciful, epic and often mundane gelding strategies for those institutions that would subsume us.

I just read on Matt Welch’s blog about the passing (at age 61 from leukemia) of musical genius Arthur Lee, front-man of the seminal psychedelic band LOVE, a Sunset Strip-based sixties Los Angeles band whose fame was what the Doors all agreed they would shoot for with their band (Welch links to a Densmore-penned memoriam,…

Looks like Saturday the art opening to be at is UNDER THE INFLUENCE, a show of punk rock influenced silkscreeners who make pop art. The show is at Bergamot Station and I heard three or four good bands will playing the old 4/4-time barchords, so yeah, I think I gotta go to this one, especially…

Three emails from art world types asking me if I know the details of JASON RHOADES dying. Quite a shocker as he was only 41. No official confirmation. He died yesterday, August 1, here in L.A. … it is being termed “heart failure”… which seems more euphemism than coroner’s report… He was a little chunky,…

Art World Poker made the Riverside Press Enterprise Weekend section. Enjoy!

The Art World Poker Finals -scheduled for this Sunday- made Thursday’s L.A. Times. Sweet.