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The two teenage boys who stole a truck and crashed it into a home wounding a little boy are still on the loose. According to the paper, “The boys were involved in a subculture of people who live along the Kern...
Posted by baketown
- Tue Jun 6, 2006 14:38:57 PDT
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I love ice cream! It is one of the hardest things for me to give up when dieting. My favorite flavor is chocolate and I prefer eating an ice cream cone to a scoop in a bowl.I so much enjoy the whole process involved in eating an ice...
Posted by matildakay
- Mon Jun 5, 2006 15:26:14 PDT
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I never saw a schedule for the RocknRoots event at Stramler Park in Bakersfield, Ca. I just went where my feet would take me and kept in a path that literally followed the sound of music. A portion of the time I hung out with Matt Munoz...
Posted by thenovelist
- Sun Jun 4, 2006 22:48:04 PDT
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Anyone who works in the corporate world can relate to the movie Office Space. We love it and we hate it because it is too close to our daytime reality. Sometimes it even makes our skin crawl. And yet we laugh anyway and secretly plot...
Posted by matildakay
- Fri Jun 2, 2006 08:58:45 PDT
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Made entirely from Republican party phone messages orchestrated to bring down certain candidates within their own party ( all taken from just one answering machine), Politopia brings trance mixdown humor to the world of Bakersfield/Kern...
Posted by thenovelist
- Fri Jun 2, 2006 08:53:20 PDT
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I get emails every so often from people who have read Lords: Part One. They are usually polite emails from readers who enjoy some aspect of the novel: the Central Valley landscape, the Bakersfield urbanscape, the big dust storm of 1977...
Posted by thenovelist
- Thu Jun 1, 2006 15:23:28 PDT
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My apologies to those of you who are sick of me hopping up on my soap box to bitch about people in this town, but an article in today’s paper just gave me more ammo. According to the Bakersfield Recreation & Parks...
Posted by baketown
- Thu Jun 1, 2006 10:57:56 PDT
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I turned 38 this past Sunday. I turned 38 in the Happiest Place on Earth. I got a little bit closer to that scary number 40 but I don’t feel any different. I’m still every bit the person I was the day before. 38 wasn’t...
Posted by matildakay
- Thu Jun 1, 2006 02:53:18 PDT
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I saw a gnarly accident last night. Or, I guess I should say I witnessed it. And now I have to testify. I was sitting a red light north bound on F Street at the 24th Street intersection in the number two lane. ...
Posted by baketown
- Wed May 31, 2006 09:00:20 PDT
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BIFF needs your movie and short film submissions! Last year I helped out with the first ever Bakersfield Independent Film Festival (BIFF) at the Spotlight Theatre. I made some posters, helped promote, and talked on the radio a little...
Posted by thenovelist
- Tue May 30, 2006 17:01:44 PDT
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June 9th is going to be a great night for punk music... I was browsing through local band blogs and just found a great story... Now, if you’re in the mood for punk rock and you’re getting hitched, then I know of a...
Posted by thenovelist
- Tue May 30, 2006 12:00:25 PDT
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Country music statesman: I’ve been covering the Bakersfield music scene for more than a year and a half and finally heard the story about Buck Owens’ telecaster with the red-white-and-blue flag painted on it. It’s an...
Posted by thenovelist
- Fri May 26, 2006 15:45:47 PDT
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I don’t think I have to go into detail that finding major events for kids’ lives to grab hold of and be inspired by are rare. Tonight was inspiring because Paul Cartwright was invited along with Catfish and Sonny Langely to...
Posted by thenovelist
- Thu May 25, 2006 23:28:45 PDT
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“How are you doing these days?” A friend asked in an email the other day.“I’m ok. Kind of bored, frustrated… and the Gemini anxiety is starting to kick in as my birthday rears its ugly head this coming...
Posted by matildakay
- Thu May 25, 2006 16:43:05 PDT
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The Kern High School District is having a contest to name the two new schools scheduled to be built. We ran out of directions a long time ago. The last two schools to be built were named Liberty and Golden Valley.Frontier will be...
Posted by baketown
- Thu May 25, 2006 14:14:26 PDT
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