The Sweeps pt 2: Politicians Being All A-Flutter
Just because Echo Park can’t have all the news, here’s some more. The council member from the northwest part of the San Fernando Valley (John Lee) has decided that: The …
Category: Los Angeles
An Echo Chamber Named Despair
Oh lords, the growing chorus of “Well, in my day we didn’t SEE so many dirty, filthy, rotten, evil, drugged-out homeless.” Seriously, people? Ever consider that the reason you see …
The Sweeps
A bunch of neighbors — folks who had houses and folks who didn’t — gathered together to protest this idiot idea set forth by the authorities to fence off Echo …
The Sad Origins of SFV
It has come to my attention that many folks just consider the San Fernando Valley (north of Los Angeles) to simply be Hollywood adjacent. NOTE: I might be writing up …
A Life Worth Remembering
He was born in 1939. Fennis Paul Maxwell, my father. Final son to a large family that fled the Dust Bowl and landed with almost nothing on the West Coast. …
My Father Passed
My father passed today. I’ll probably write something more profound about that later. But since I just found out about it a few minutes ago, that’s where I stand.
Please Give Back (seriously!)
I live on stolen land, specifically that of the Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians. I’m even related to some of the thieves (Hi, Great Grandpa!). Currently land acknowledgement is …
So That Election…
U.S. elections. Painful. Especially painful when neighbors are screaming that when they win, they will jail or kill all their opponents. Like God intended. Makes me want to move out. …
Press Release: Fake News Anthology
Beyond Steampunk Book 2 From the Publisher: In the new anthology of short stories, FAKE NEWS, 13 authors each explore a different conspiracy theory, telling their tale as though the …
The Nature of Pain
The nature of pain is to constrict a person’s world. For people struggling with a progressive disease, it can be an amazingly subtle thing, where you look back after years …