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There's a literary arts flowering in the community colleges of California and Gary Enns is right in the middle of it. Enns is one of those rare individuals who contributes to Bakersfield and Kern County culture in a big way: through...
Posted by thenovelist
- Mon Sep 25, 2006 14:16:14 PDT
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Lately the business blog I write for ProSoft Technology has been getting more readership. It’s a tough tightrope to walk, but I think verbally poking at the industry I work in is the way to go. Sure, you have to write in a funny...
Posted by thenovelist
- Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:44:10 PDT
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What's this? Joey Minstrel, making his way through the streets of Bakersfield? Where is this young man going?
Greg Goodsell has submitted his entry for the Cinema of the Lords contest. His avante garde short film adaption of scenes...
Posted by thenovelist
- Thu Sep 21, 2006 14:39:29 PDT
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I always had trouble paying attention. Didn’t matter whether I was in school watching a teacher’s lips move relentlessly during a lecture, or if I sat at the dinner table when my Mexican father was busy talking about truck...
Posted by thenovelist
- Fri Sep 15, 2006 09:24:31 PDT
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All roads lead to somewhere, right? Sometimes through dark streets—the Mirkwood of Bakersfield—the tangle of urban decadence that screams at you from shadows of fog, or where the creeping corners of lots hide metal trash bins...
Posted by thenovelist
- Thu Sep 14, 2006 09:25:23 PDT
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What's up Bakotopians?
Just wanted to give you heads up on a few cool things coming up this week, before we get to this week's newsletter and brand spankin' new Bakotunes Podcast featuring Emilio Castillo of Tower of Power!
First...
Posted by matt
- Tue Sep 12, 2006 16:57:14 PDT
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You remember the old Rock and Roll Farm article from February, 2005? I wrote about the pizza-a-go-go, A.K.A. Jerry’s Pizza, A.K.A. The Rock and Roll Farm:
…now having become a punk hardcore metal frenetic zone where...
Posted by thenovelist
- Wed Sep 6, 2006 18:16:44 PDT
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I had just arrived home from work when one of my boys received a phone call that there had been an explosion one street over. I didn't have time to even grab a camera. chingpea had a camera phone and we were off to the scene to see what...
Posted by thenovelist
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 09:38:45 PDT
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The night was warm inside and out....
Heading downtown to the Downtown Sculpture and Assembly Show at Capistrano's (formerly Spikes, The Bullpen, and Downtown Joe's,) my buddy Popeye (Tekwiz,) and I were immediately greeted by...
Posted by matt
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:50:56 PDT
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LARDS PART 1 ® WARNING ADULT CONTENT AND TREATS: The CHAPTER 4.
(Everybody gets spoofed here!) And if Belardes can write about a chocolate dildo I think a Twinkie in the situation is ok? EDITED Version
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Posted by regulators
- Fri Aug 18, 2006 07:12:33 PDT
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-LARDS PART 1
-CHAPTER 3 Moon-Pie Madness
The truck game to rest on a dirt berm just outside the fort. Fatty leapt out of the back of the van with nearly supper human capacities and ran through the darkness toward the...
Posted by regulators
- Thu Aug 17, 2006 19:02:02 PDT
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Slowly I turn.....NIAGRA FALLS!!
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I've been having so much fun lately, I had to throw out an old school Three...
Posted by matt
- Fri Aug 11, 2006 18:09:23 PDT
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Although I still won’t tell people about Lords: Part Two other than vague references here and there, I haven’t written about the topic of the Lords of Bakersfield for some time. I feel another Op-Ed follow-up is due... I told...
Posted by thenovelist
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 16:25:17 PDT
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