by James Schuyler
Balance checkbook.
Rid lawn of onion grass.
“this patented device”
“this herbicide”
“Sir, We find none of these
killers truly satisfactory. Hand weed
for onion grass.” Give
old clothes away, “such as you
yourself would willingly wear.”
Impasse.
Mark Paul grew up in the Midwest before traveling west for college. He never left, and became an expert in California politics, covering the capital for 24 years for the Oakland Tribune and the Sacramento Bee. Now, as a New America Foundation senior fellow, he’s working on a book on political reform in the state, writing “in a room, surrounded by a lifetime’s worth of books.”
Joe Mathews, a long-time reporter and son of journalist parents, has been known to wear a tie printed with the California state flag. That is, when he wears a tie. “I don’t have many ties, only two or three. I don’t like wearing them,” he said. “But I’ve had this tie for a while, and wore it to a lot of interviews when I was writing my book on Gov. Schwarzenegger. It was a good conversation starter.”
Peter Taylor still lives half a mile from where he lived as a 10 year old boy. After spending his earlier youth in Leimart Park, his family moved to Silver Lake, still his home and his favorite Los Angeles neighborhood. Read more about Taylor, a managing director in the public finance department of Barclays Capital, below, and check out his discussion of California’s cash crisis here.
by Frank O’Hara
Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
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