Listen to this man: he is alive. Got this audio snippet while checking out Venice Beach, where I was last weekend.
Venice Freakshow Barker Audio
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Venice Freakshow Barker
Day of the Locust
Finished reading “The Day of the Locust” yesterday. This passage stood out to me, the description of a mad crowd at a movie premiere at the novel’s climax:
“All their lives they had slaved at some kind of dull, heavy labor, behind desks and counters, in the fields and at tedious machines of all sorts, saving [...]
Prop 8 Protest
On Grove and Van Ness today, traffic was blocked by protestors opposed to the California Supreme Court’s decision this morning to uphold Prop 8. Police were managing a traffic reroute and arresting the protestors quietly, one at a time. It was a peaceful event, no apparent anger between the protestors and the cops, who both [...]
Secrets and Shame
The only thing that keeps I Cried, You Didn’t Listen from being a mere laundry list of horrors is the humanity of its narrator. Abbot doesn’t attempt to make excuses for the behavior that kept him going back to the California Youth Authority. He doesn’t need to–putting it in context with the way he was treated, it is perfectly logical. Abbott simply had adapted to his environment: one where physical violence is the basic, ordering principle of daily life.
