Topanga
Zeroville by Steve Erickson
Steve Erickson is a writer who lives in Topanga Canyon and has a huge cult following. His latest book has a main character who’s obsessed with film. The book itself has more interesting ideas about movies than I’ve read in years. Everyone has something to say about movies. Steve Erickson will happily sacrifice a character […]
Kommune Kutz for Kidz
Isa gets her hair cut at this commune down the street. Yesterday we went and an older woman with long black braids was there with Stardust, Isa’s ‘hair artist.’ Stardust told Isa that the woman was a Chumash medicine woman. Isa excitedly told her that they had been studying the tribe in Social Studies class […]
my war with cyclists (continued)
My wife Bernie doesn’t like it when I yell, honk, or otherwise engage cyclists, when our daughter Isa is in the car. The subsequent mass flipping off and indignant screams of “fuck you!” are completely predictable and, in Bernie’s opinion, easily avoidable. That’s why I don’t yell at cyclists when Isa is in the car…unless […]
I hate cyclists
Cyclists in Topanga Canyon are very aggressive, demanding to be treated like vehicles…if vehicles rode four abreast on winding mountain roads and flipped you off for so much as toot-tooting that you’d please like to pass on a straightaway. Slower traffic is supposed to use turnouts–there are signs posted everywhere. I use them all the […]
Hot Dogs for Peace
Photo: Topanga Memorial Day Parade 2007Every Friday a peace group stands on Topanga Canyon Blvd. with signs against the Iraq War. They’ve been out there for four years and counting.
Wild Food
Isa and I went to a “Wild Food Summit” down the street at a “burning man” community. We learned how to forage.
Jack Silbert, curator