Exquisite Moon-Lit Tableaux Await the Midnight Dog-Walker

Friday
Tomorrow me and five other judges will spend a good chunk of our Saturday watching and evaluating the DVDs submitted for the Josiah Youth Media Festival. One of the judges (who will remain nameless) asked if alcohol was allowed. And another judge (also protected by my discretion) was quick with a reply. [...]

Pipsquawk Lost in the Big City

As I was getting out of my truck this evening, I dropped the grocery bag holding a bottle of primo Hernandez Salsa. The red fluid oozed across the concrete like blood pooling in front of the Biograph Theater back in '34. But, sadly, my jar of festive condiment was not the public's enemy [...]

New Video Blog

I've posted a new video blog.
Visit my vlog:
http://eyewashpictures.blogspot.com/
Or go right to the video:
http://blip.tv/file/283113
Problems? Take it to the public commons with YouTube!

The video is poet Eduardo Garza doing his piece “Earthling” with musical accompaniment. Check it out!

From Jazzy Poetry to Dada Badmiton — Just Another Sunday in SA

Sunday I had an appointment with nine poets at Luna, a jazz club on San Pedro. It's that stretch of San Pedro a bit further north than I care to go — not too far inside the highway 410 loop.
The rains had been hammering down for some time. And even though the skies [...]

His Beard, Pointy and Luciferian

I was driving back home from a trip to the grocery store early Saturday evening. On Roosevelt there is an iconic gritty neighborhood beer joint called Vaqueros. In the parking-lot every Friday they set up a wrestling ring and have lucha libre matches. I really should check it out. And as [...]