Woman & Beast, Valentine Lovers
Lovers On That Special Day--Photo by Lionel Rolfe
After The Holidays In The City Of The Angels: A Photo By Susan McRae
Click for more details. Christmas and New Year's had just ended, so camerwoman Susan McRae ventured forth on a cold and windy night to find some reality just up the street.
Poems By Julia Stein, From Her New Book “What Were They Like.”
Dear Joe
We miss you.
We’re glad you liked the cookies that mama mailed you.
Grandma loves the teapot you sent her from Kuwait.
Please come home soon
for my high school graduation.
My little brother likes your photos.
Please come home from Kuwait. Read more
KCET “Departures” Features Lionel Rolfe
KCET web columnist Mike Sonksen devotes his January 27, 2012, column to two longtime chroniclers of Los Angeles life: “Lionel Rolfe and Johnny Otis: Literary Icons of L.A.” Read more
A New Poem By Gerald Nicosia: The Role of the Poet
Obama a disappointment
Money for wars but not
For the poor, the sick, the kids in school
And corporations calling
All the shots
What chance has the human
Heart got?
The wise man said
“Poetry gives us a place to stand”
But I’d say rather
Poetry keeps
Your heart beating
And blood flowing
And without it
God forbid
The whole place
Called existence
Goes
Black
Rather than
Sit there listening
For the click of
The switch
Better to
Just
Keep
Writing!
Photographer Susan McRae Finds An Interesting Comment On The Beach
FIRST, click on the photo to make the details clearer. Then contemplate who was this commentator--a homeless person living on the beach in Ventura with a lot of time to ponder, or just a wandering genius?
Great Car Photos By Linda Scott, A Photographer Who Used Real Film To Get These Wonderful Shots
Waiting At Union Station, A Photo By Susan McRae
PEACOCK, a photo by Susan McRae
Lionel Rolfe Interviewed on KPFK on Anniversary of L.A. Times Bombing
Lionel Rolfe spoke with KPFK’s Suzie Weisman on “Beneath the Surface” October 1, the hundredth anniversary of the famous bombing on the Los Angeles Times on that date in 1910. Rolfe is coauthor of Bread and Hyacinths , available in digital format through Boryanabooks, which deals with the bombing and the career of Los Angeles socialist Job Harriman. Rolfe’s interview was to promote the first project of LATimesbomb, a multimedia event the night of his interview held at the Wordspace studio in the Atwater district of Los Angele. The event drew a standing room only crowd.
Listen here to Lionel’s interview
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Honey on the road to San Francisco with some of the Spanish explorers
NOTES FROM ABOVE GROUND
By Honey van Blossom
(Honey is a Belgian Marxist former strip-tease artiste)
"Cities of the Golden Gate," Raymond Dabb Yelland, 1893. Most illustrations can be enlarged by clicking on them.
Prologue to the story of the Spanish exploration and settlement of California
Seasonal migrations of animals now extinct in California probably created the roads the native people used before the Spanish land exploration of California. “The heyday of giant mammals in North America was the middle and late Pleistocene, an epoch that started 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago, around the time the Earth was thawing out from the Ice Age. The gigantic beasts, which migrated from Asia across a now-vanished land bridge called Beringia, are known as Rancholabrean megafauna, after the famous La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles — the graveyard of thousands of saber-toothed tigers, giant bison and other extinct animals.”[1]
The seasonal migrations of the large mammals may have created the substantial roads used by the indigenous people after their arrival.[2]
Paul S. Martin and Richard G. Klein argue that Paleoindian over-hunting led to the extinction of the megafauna.[3] Others argue that climate change was responsible for mammoth and mastodon extinctions. As the last major glaciation ended around 12,000 years ago, climate warmed too quickly for the megafauna to adapt.
