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  • 2015 Art World Bootcamp

    I do one of these seminars every year. Make a New Year’s Resolution early to make 2015 the year you begin navigating your art career. If you aspire to be a successful, exhibiting artist in Los Angeles, perhaps it is time to get serious about that goal. It is time for you to understand the…


  • Memories of Leonard Cohen Live

    I have seen Leonard Cohen in concert three times. 1. “LIKE A BIRD ON A WIRE, LIKE A DURNK IN A MIDNIGHT CHOIR, I HAVE TRIED, IN MY WAY, TO BE FREE” I drank a lot Jack Daniel’s and Coke on the afternoon of what would be my first time seeing Leonard Cohen – it…


  • Go Ahead and Fuck with the Art Community, it Doesn’t Exist.

    I got scolded a lot during the early years of Coagula Art Journal. Scolded by artists and collectors and art dealers and just random people at galleries with no specific status. They wagged their fingers in my face. They threw drinks in my face. They stared me straight in the face. They would say they…


  • Huntington Park Ignores Animal Cruelty

    A dog has been chained to a mobile home for TEN DAYS in the 2500 Block of E 55th street, 2nd parking spot east of Pacific Blvd, north side of the street. The City of Huntington Park police have ignored repeated calls to address this situation. No response from Parking Control, form Animal Control, from…


  • iTunes Ranking Game

    Okay this is a fun one. You select “number of plays” in your iTunes Library and find the song you have listened to the most times. That will be the first song on your list. Next on the list will be the song with second most plays – but it has to be by a…


  • Easter

    My grandmother died on Easter Sunday, 1983. They gave her mouth to mouth and spat the chocolate out in between huffs and puffs of desperate effort. There was a party at her place. She was obese and 72 years old – a bad combo. The family went to shit after that. They fought over the…