Blog Fu: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
“… if you ain’t hip to the rare house quake, shut up, already … damn!” - I’ve been increasingly concerned about increases in the crazification factor of people wandering around in what I indulgently...
View ArticlePolitical Poetry: “Salsa Con Soulfood”
A few weeks ago, my good friend Michael Datcher asked me to pitch in at the last minute and go on a KPFK radio show called The Beautiful Struggle to read poetry. The topic of the show was the Arizona...
View ArticleThe Conversation: “… you never worked for the mob …”
I work with this guy Jere Krischel and he’s completely bonkers. To be fair, so am I, but whatever. It’s funny — we both went to the same college the same years and never met once. We have wildly...
View ArticlePolitics: The Night Before The Election (or “that one about politics”)
Tomorrow there will be elections over lots of the United States. Here’s a whole lotta political things I wanna cover. Some I may have handled in earlier blogs, but they’re worth repeating … or I don’t...
View ArticleNews: Happy Guy Fawkes Day, Oscar Grant’s Family!
I’m just going to quote the article from the San Francisco Chronicle … A judge sentenced former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle today to two years in state prison for fatally shooting unarmed...
View ArticleLife: The Case Against Voting
A few weeks ago, I had a blog about politics that posited my reasons for never voting. I do it privately, and I don’t really evangelize it as a perspective because I don’t really care. I do, however,...
View ArticlePoetry: Rise & Grind
No preamble! Let’s make with the “biff” and the “pow!” It’s easy for things to fly by moving 45 miles per hour east on Pico It’s 8:13 AM on a Tuesday morning thirty minutes away from being due in...
View ArticlePoetry: The Corporate Citizen [#napowrimo2012]
Keep rocking … “Corporations are people, my friend. Of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People’s...
View ArticlePoetry: Burn, Baby, Burn [#napowrimo2012]
Great discussion this morning on Sunday Morning Live. A train runs through center of Los Angeles’ urban blight, graffitti tagged streets crime statistics lower property values. There’s no smoke today...
View ArticlePolitics: Hannibal Will Not Vote, You Can’t Change That
Now that there’s no chance I can be blamed for trying to affect the outcome of probably the most expensive election in history, here’s some stuff I haven’t said in literally dozens of Facebook comment...
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