Archive for May, 2006
May 31, 2006
A blood red sun rises over the city. Helicopter blades scrape the smog-choked sky as news and police choppers scan the L.A. Basin for signs of trouble on the streets and freeways.
Dan Knight’s vintage ’48 Packard is snarled in northbound traffic on the Golden State Freeway. To the accompaniment of blaring horns, Dan bullies the [...]
Posted in The Trace Stories | Tags: kill fee, LA fiction, Los Angeles, Rodger Jacobs, screenwriting, short fiction, The Trace Stories, Writers, Writing |
May 30, 2006
UPDATED: 5/31/06
Internet crime reporter Steven Huff — frequently seen on Court TV — writes on 5/30:
Rodger,
There was a triple murder in the 8700 block of Summercrest Circle in Garden Grove, CA over the weekend. A child, a 20-something woman, and a 30-something man. No exact names yet, no exact address. However, it is a circle [...]
Posted in Adult Industry News, True Crime |
May 30, 2006
—–Original Message—–
From: lkandl@deleted
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 12:52 PM
To: rdjacobs@concentric.net
Subject: Sincere Apologies, Rodger
An Obsession of Mistaken Identity
Dear Rodger,
This is difficult for me, but I need to do this to hopefully move on. I know I sent you emails and things in the mail.
However, I don’t have recollection of what I sent except for a few [...]
Posted in L.A. Stories, True Crime | Tags: cyberstalking, Laura Kandl, mental illness, obsession, Rodger Jacobs, sexual obsession with soup pots, stalkers, Writers, Writing |
May 30, 2006
“It’s time for you to die,” Dan Knight snarled at the corpulent editor. “I hope you understand that it’s nothing personal.”
Dan grabbed the edge of the desk with both hands and pounced to his feet. Raw menace was dripping from him like molasses on a thick stack of flapjacks. His hand darted inside his slate [...]
Posted in The Trace Stories | Tags: Ein Einsamer Ort, Humphrey Bogart, In A Lonely Place, LA fiction, Los Angeles, Rodger Jacobs, short fiction, stalkers, The Trace Stories, Writers, Writing |
May 29, 2006
A naturalist, to obtain accuracy of observation, may confine himself in his observations to one limited period and I will take first that following the Austrian offensive of June, 1918, as one in which the dead were present in their greatest numbers, a withdrawal having been forced and an advance later made to recover the [...]
Posted in Books & Literature |
May 28, 2006
“What am I going to do? Stage an intervention for the fucker? I don’t know him well enough to care and he hasn’t given me reason to give two shits about his marriage or his efforts to become a human ship in a bottle.”
“I think he does want an intervention,” Nancy told Trace. “Remember when [...]
Posted in The Trace Stories | Tags: alcoholism, Arrogant Bastard Ale, LA fiction, literature, Los Angeles, Malcolm Lowry, Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West, Rodger Jacobs, short fiction, The Trace Stories, Under the Volcano, Writers, Writing |
