"Forget CNN: Read 8763 Wonderland"

That’s what Independent Sources said today about our coverage of the post-hurricane anarchy in New Orleans:
8763 Wonderland is indispensable for postings on LA murders (and not just the Laurel Canyon killings) and other current events as well as web site operator’s own fiction. I’m going to leave the rest until I get around to reviewing [...]

Hiroshima On Sunset Boulevard

Last night, again, I dreamed
my children were back at home,
small boys huddled in their separate beds,
and I went from one to the other
listening to their breathing — regular,
almost soundless — until a white light
hardened against the bedroom wall,
the light of Los Angeles burning south
of here, going at last as we
knew it would. I didn’t waken.
Instead [...]

Envy the Dead

The news coming out of New Orleans gets increasingly grim minute-by-CNN-minute. Hurricane Katrina has passed but the disaster it left behind only continues to grow.
In downtown New Orleans, looting and carjacking has become the latest dopamine. The police can do little about the outbreak of lawlessness because their cruisers are starting to run low on [...]

Suspect in Singerman Killing Found Dead

Brian Joseph Cullen, 59, the main suspect in the brutal baseball bat slaying of aspiring model Iryna Singerman, 21, has been found dead in a Tijuana hotel room.
LAPD investigators are awaiting conformation from Mexican authorities but say they are highly confident that the man found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head [...]

A Trace Tale: "Melville Blues"

“It’s ‘Moby Dick’ with cops and robbers,” Trace insisted.
Hovick leaned his bony elbows on the desk top and rubbed his chin thoughtfully. He was one of the youngest development executives in the movie business, rising from script analyst to administrative assistant to junior exec in less than a year and a half.
“Has there ever been [...]

Christian Irwin Found Alive, Delusional

From Indepedent Sources:
In a surprising development, Christian Irwin, the Topanga record producer who disappeared last Sunday under bizarre circumstances was found in relatively good physical condition Friday night not far from where he vanished.
He was found standing naked in a stream and washing a pair of pants. He was initially mistaken for a transient but [...]