Saturday

Trace cleaned his desk. First he took a roll of paper towels and a bottle of Fantastik Orange Action all-purpose cleaner and scrubbed down the shell of the Canon printer and metal canister holding the computer hard drive. He was always embarrassed by the nicotine stains that built up on the plastics and metals so [...]

Girl Bites Dog: Susie Bright’s Take On Craig Ferguson’s Festival of Books Antics

UPDATED
Over at Susie Bright’s Journal, the noted author, editor, and performer pens (quite laced with poison) an open letter to late night host Craig Ferguson regarding his participation in the panel “Pushing the Envelope” at Saturday’s LA Times Festival of Books:
Over the course of an hour in a dismal UCLA lecture hall, we lost power [...]

Pushing the Envelope at the LA Times Festival of Books

It was CBS late night talk show host Craig Ferguson’s arrogant, loud-mouthed comment that isolated his co-panelists at yesterday’s “Pushing the Envelope” event at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
“Being authentically myself tends to offend a lot of people and I’m too rich and too old to give a damn,” said the Scottish-born actor, [...]

The 8763 Wonderland Interview: Joseph Mailander, Writer O’Fiction

As some of you may recall. Joseph Mailander, editor and founder of Martini Republic, announced in late March that he was temporarily hanging up his reins at MR in order to, well, get his head together.
Joe has been in a funk lately. His 49th birthday had a lot to do with that. And a certain [...]

Left Coast Gothic

In the summer of 1974 my mother rented a house on a quiet residential cul de sac in Anaheim. It was a step up from the last home we had leased, that one being in the sleepy little Bay Area suburb of Fremont. The Fremont home – oddly enough, it was on a corner lot [...]

Minutes of the Meeting

Let the minutes reflect that Rodger Jacobs arrived early for the 7:00 PM meeting at 2980 Los Feliz Boulevard in Atwater Village (The Tam O’Shanter Inn) on January 11, 2006 after a hearty dinner of steak and lobster tail at the Sizzler steak house adjacent to the meeting place.
From 6:30-6:45 PM Jacobs sipped a Bass [...]