New Lower Topanga slideshows w/ music by Doug Lewis and DJ Lyf

Toylit published in 2 zines

Lot’s o’ Crap zine publishes art by Toilet from The Last Nowhere (2006).

Totally Mag! publishes art by Toylit from Craplexity (2006).

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5 new pics in the LOWER TOPANGA PHOTO ARCHIVE

Lower Topanga Photo Archive

(pic: Robert Herron) Bill, Mary, and George Van Noy at Dr. Schweiger’ s house circa 1963

(pic: Jim Fitzpatric k?) “The Topanga Bombers” in front of the Saenz house circa 1965

(pic: Jim Fitzpatric k) Topanga Beach reunion in 1969

(pic: unknown photograph er)

(pic: c/o West Valley Museum)

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NEW BOOK: Astral Dick by Toylit !!!

Astral Dick is a “whodunit” involving a police psychic, Cap’n, and his “paranormal guinea pig,” Lieutenant Leo Fleck. Together they are investigating a string of brutal killings centered around the temple of a rogue religious cult and an artsy-fartsy, open-mic, poetry café.

A different print by artist Norton Wisdom is glued onto every book cover!

From “Act 2, Scene 6″

Leo – So what’s all this about an “operation”? Just the facts please.

Bunny – Well, it all began when Marlo hit puberty. Honey, show the man your tits.

Marlo reveals that one of her breasts is definitely larger than the other one. Leo doesn’t even look.

Leo – Yeah, yeah. One of her boobs is visibly larger than the other. I looked down her shirt as I was astrally projecting.

Marlo – He knows EVERYTHING!

Leo – I’m a dick. It’s my job to know stuff.

Bunny – So about a month ago, she went to the doctor to get her knockers adjusted. And before she went into surgery, I told her… what did I tell her?

Marlo – “The problem is all in your HEAD! If somebody loves you, they are going to love you, lopsided titties and all.”

Bunny – So off she goes to get a boob job, and what does she come home with? A LOBOTOMY!

Marlo – ACTUALLY, I just had ONE lobe done to see if I liked it. So it’s only HALF a lobotomy.

Leo – I see. And how has it affected her performance?

Bunny – Well, her motor skills are okay, but it seems to have affected her “initiative.”

Leo – Meaning?

Bunny – She makes a passable waitress, but sometimes she gets stuck.

Marlo – Sorry! Sometimes I get stuck!

Bunny – Except for her poetry. That’s gotten UNSTUCK. It just flows and flows. All this bizarre amazing imagery just pours out of this hole where her brain used to be.

Marlo – Poetry is my LIFE!

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(c) BRASS TACKS PRESS
www.lifeasapoet.com

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Toylit drawing…

…for the cover of his play Astral Dick.

BRASS TACKS PRESS

New pics uploaded to the Lower Topanga Photo Archive

http://brasstackspress.esmartdesign.com/misc.html#Lower_Topanga_Photo_Archive

There are about a dozen more from pro photographer David Blattel, circa 2002 (I mixed them in with the ones that were already there — sorry!):

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And a few cool surf shots from recent years by J. Murph:

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Penny-Ante: Three @ Stories Books & Cafe

Penny-Ante: Three event @ Stories Books & Cafe in Echo Park (9-15-09)

Flyer 1

Flyer 2

Toylit

Toylit’s poem

Mick Farren

Mick Farren

Tearist (w/ Douglas from BIRTH! and Bestial Mouths)

Julia Holter

Sharon Cheslow and Julia Holter

Echo Park cowboy

(pics by Pablo Capra)

coLLapse, The Movie, featuring Venice Arts Club member Mike Ruppert.

coLLapse, The Movie, featuring our own Mike Ruppert, directed by Chris Smith, will have it’s premiere at The Toronto Film Festival, September 10-19, 2009.

c o L L a p s e

coLLapse was screened privately here at VAC a couple of evenings ago….it’s a shocker of a film.  If you can handle the truth, don’t miss it…

Derek90291

Newspaper clipping from 1977 by Derek90291.  This article appeared in the Miami Herald.

Leaving Neurotica.2

It’s bad in California’s Central Valley, no kidding.  It’s always been an isolated area because of the agricultural industry but now it’s isolated and broke, even worse.

I turned off at fabulous Westley about two years ago only to find an agriculturacl/anchor baby community and a run-down bar with two toothless female meth-addicts sitting outside.  All aboard the meth-train to hell, first stop your soul.  Next stop, who cares.

The nice thing is I’m not staying at that particular train stop.  My destination is more hospitable and more my type of culture.  Humboldt County, land of NorCal enchantment and a more friendly form of land use.  More on that later.  Neurotica is much harder to feed in the land of the quiet.  Got the picture?

BTP praised in “Foxy Digitalis” online magazine

From “An Interview with Penny-Ante Publisher Rebekah Why”

by Jon Lorenz

I read that you initially started Penny-Ante with a focus on poetry and you said at the time that you “saw it as something that was completely dead,” could you elaborate on that?

Poetry has never died and I find is hilarious that the first time I’m misquoted is by one of my own editors! (Laughs). I think when I said that I was referring to my own surroundings and friends, who don’t really find contemporary “big name” poetry as something they connect with… But with that said, there will always be poets, and people interested in poetry. Byron Coley’s been doing it with the Ecstatic Yod’s poetry journals, or BRASS TACKS PRESS OUT OF TOPANGA (!!!)… There are people carrying the torch from one generation to the next and with that, it’s not completely dead, and thank goodness….

Penny-Ante website

Foxy Digitalis website

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NEW BOOK: “Rohloff’s Snake Pit” by Chris Rohloff (as told to Pablo Capra) and Toylit (illus.)

From “The Snake Pit”

The Snake Pit… was basically the armpit of Malibu. If Malibu had a hood, Topanga and The Snake Pit would be it.

As kids, we were proud to call our neighborhood The Snake Pit because we were all dirt-rat, creeker degenerates. So it was pretty cool!

The Snake Pit was a place that the surrounding community didn’t want to have too much contact with. Even to the police, it said, “Keep out!” Police and firemen tried to avoid going there as much as possible because there was weird stuff that happened down there back in the ’60s and ’70s. Everybody knew about Charles Manson’s connection to The Snake Pit, and that they shouldn’t deal with those people. The Manson Family lived across the street from us. I was three or four years old, and I’d be on the dirt road playing with their kids.

(c) Brass Tacks Press
www.lifeasapoet.com

(See Toylit’s drawings on the website!)

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New ’70s-’80s-era Topanga Beach pics uploaded to the Brass Tacks Press archive

Start here to see the color set.

Start here to see the black-and-white set.

The Last Bastion — a new Lower Topanga documentary

Click to watch The Last Bastion by Anastasia Fite, a new documentary film about Lower Topanga starring James Mathers, John Clemens, Carole Winter, and John Judge.

New Lower Topanga pics uploaded (mid 2000s) to the Brass Tacks Press archive

Start here to see the new Lower Topanga pics!

Belongings of former resident James Mathers (a.k.a. Toylit) found in trailer

James’s psycho-iridescent mattress

From Obliterature by Toylit

“That moment the artist began to trust the dream he was living in… surrendering over tea.”

Pablo’s trailer (a.k.a. Timeship Medusa)

Formerly parked in Lower Topanga, this trailer was immortalized in the comic Voyage of the Timeship Medusa by Toylit…

Pablo is learning about Venice gangs

Click to find out what VXIII stands for?

Coleen Rowley: Why I Support a New 9/11 Investigation (Mike Ruppert)

Check out this Raw Story article by Coleen Rowley, a true American patriot.  In the comments below the story, read through #6, it mentions VAC member and contributor Mike Ruppert.

 

U P D A T E

Mike Ruppert responds:

Hey, thanks Doug for posting the little bit about 9-11. Yeah, I wrote one the three largest-selling books on 9-11; “Crossing the Rubicon”. It’s in the Harvard Biz Library and Colleen Rowley sure knows who I am. It’s funny though about that one comment that mentioned me. Anyone who says the buildings were demolished or that passengers were taken off Flt 77 is pushing bad info. Sometimes government “disinfo” people put “poison pills” of bad information in just to taint people with the good stuff - especially if they get some “legs” like I did. It’s all too dark. I lived in that world for a long time and my time there is done… thirty years worth. Living there is like having to listen for C’laire de Lune while a grunge band just turned the volume dial to 10. Music is either clear or it’s not. Anything not authentic stands out like like a coyote at a jack rabbit convention. Bad with the good: Right now I’m struggling to pay off legal bills left over from the years of Bush-Cheney harassment.I fought them tooth and nail and came out clean… but broke.

Mr. Baer ‘Avoiding The Void’

New Lower Topanga pics added to the Brass Tacks Press archive

Robert Campbell and Pablo Capra looking over Robert’s graphic novel Floating in 2002.
Click to see the rest of the Lower Topanga pics by David Blattel.

Leaving Neurotica by Derek De Vries

 

Central CA valley photos by M.D. Baer

 

Humbolt Hairy

Humbolt Harm Reduction Collective delivers throughout the Santa Monica, Venice, Marina Del Ray area.  Number below.

 

 

Derek 90291

COMING SOON!!

Watch for “Derek 90291″ and his new editorial appearing weekly at VAC