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Forthcoming Books

In the not too distant future, Boryanabooks.com will publish an original book by Lionel Rolfe electronically, bypassing print editions, The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohn .

Fat Man on the Left: Four Decades in the Underground (1998), The Uncommon Friendship of Yaltah Menuhin and Willa Cather (2004), and Bread & Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles (1992) will get new Kindle editions. (All three are already available in a Scribd edition).

New Kindle electronic edition is also in preparation of Being Frank: My Time With Frank Zappa by Nigey Lennon (Scribd edition already up)

Kindle books by Boyd Lewis and Phyl Van Ammers will also be announced here. Watch this space for developments.

NOTES FROM ABOVE GROUND

Honey Talks About Robert Louis Stevenson

By Honey van Blossom

(Honey is a Belgian Marxist former strip-tease artiste.)

Last week, my grandson Ethan, aged eleven, and I went to Santa Cruz on the north end of the Monterey Bay for a few days. From the beach, where I stood watching him as he swam into the waves, I saw the pale blue uneven line on the southern end, which is Monterey.

I rode the Hurricane and Logger's Revenge on the Santa Cruz Boardwalk with him. I also rented a little car from the hotel that went forty miles an hour and we drove through cold thick fog up to the University past startled deer and two or three complaisantly beautiful students. The car was open, it was too small for drivers in other cars to see even though it was canary yellow, it didn't have a steering wheel but a thing like a motorcycle steering mechanism, and Ethan frequently put his long strong young fingers over my hands and tried to take control of the steering and screamed in my ear, “Faster Grandma! Faster!” I think Ethan may not be a contemplative child but he may be contemplative at a rate of speed so I am incapable of seeing it, as people are incapable of hearing sounds that dogs hear.

On the drive back to return him to his parents and little brother, Ethan and I stopped in Aptos at the Rummonds Building. Jim Rummonds bought the building when I was working for him in the mid 1980s. He wasn't in his office when Ethan and I stopped by but his wife Sue and assistant Chansonette were there, and we lied to each other and said we had not changed. Actually, Sue hadn't changed and she didn't lie about anything.

LINKS:

* Silver Lake Stairs

*Webmaster extraordinaire

* Sonji Kimmons, a real Jazz musician

* Bart Everett, A Fine Photographer

* Boyd Lewis, legendary Civil Rights Photographer and NPR’s Famed “Voice of the South”

* Boyd Lewis' blog at Like the Dew

* Lucas Janin is a computer whiz from France whose day job is special effects in the dream factories, but check flickr from his blog for incredible pictures of California.

* Yaltah Menuhin’s Site

* Yehudi Menuhin’s Official Site

* American Legends

* Nigey Lennon blog, writer, musician and all-around genius

*Candy Zappa, sister of Frank, and author of “My Brother Was a Mother” has a blog.

* Hyla's Site

* Alvah Bessie was one of the Hollywood Ten and a major chronicler of the Spanish Civil War.

* Lee Boek, house painter, labor organizer and actor and theatrical impressario is Public Works Improv Theater. His big project is “Confessions of a Pulpiteer,” the story of an ex-fundamentalist preacher coming to your town soon.

* H.B. Koplowitz came to Los Angeles from the midwest, and has written about both places with a lot of resonance.

* Shaggyman.com, occasional website of Leslie Evans, author of the forthcoming Boryanabooks title Outsider's Reverie.

* Umberto Tosi's Desperately Seeking Santa on Amazon (Kindle Edition) based on his experience as a Macys Santa in San Francisco.

* Random Lengths News is the local newspaper in San Pedro, but it's really much much more. It's an independent, fighting tabloid with a radical perspective.

* Umberto Tosi's blog website: The Einstein Express.

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