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I live in a working class neighborhood, aka POOR people. There are so many misunderstandings of the poor that the picture people have of the poor in their heads is a tragicomic puppet show compared to the reality. Most poor people have aspirations that involve finding the opportunity to get ahead. Almost every motherfucker I…

Early Downtown L.A. performance art pioneer Cynthia Toronto is comfortable in hospice care but is sadly headed to the finish line. If you have any memories of Cynthia or just want to share your love with her, get hold of her on FaceBook soon, it would really brighten her mood. Cynthia performed at many a…

Banksy revealed a 10,000 square foot Dismaland today. It is a giant art work that mimics a theme park but gives us intense deconstructive takes on the escapist sensibility that supports places like Disneyland. I’ve posited two critiques of Banksy. The first is that his manipulation of the media is the same fundamental hypocrisy that…

Heard stories of people ubering their kids to and from school. If i had kids that would be me. Well it is me now with my parents. Neither can drive long distances any more and I trained my mom how to use uber on her phone but she lost her phone. Tried to download uber…

What if the record company had balked and told Bob Dylan to make Blonde on Blonde two albums instead of a double album. The actual album has two distinct sounds to it. One is a heavy blues sound that occasionally veers off into a cacaphony. If the color of those songs are “blue” then the…

I don’t know when the story starts, how long it was there, the name ATOMIC CAFE whispers the dreams of a bygone era that became loathed for its relationship to conformity and aggression. It was not the atomic age when I walked in the door – young and eager and knowing it was the place…