"I was driving for a tow company in L.A. We had official police tow contracts for three cities and it was busy, with lots of freeway work. Towing stuff for cops, AAA stuff, and crashes. You know, the crashes can get gory as hell ( Read more... )

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My friend Greg lives on Mount Washington, looking down on much of Los Angeles. He and his friends are all musicians, and we BBQd and played and listened and talked yesterday and last night. I've known him since 1985. He's a great musician and a good friend ( Read more... )

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For the first half of the 1990s I worked at a hospital near downtown Los Angeles ( Read more... )

Brad Laner (Medicine, Savage Republic, Debt of Nature) is playing August 9 at pehrspace, a place I'd never even heard of. Neato.

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The neocons take over in the expected putsch after the New Times bought them ( Read more... )