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Awhile back I posted this photo shopped image announcing the LOM website, Existing L.A. Sites That Inspired Scenes and Backdrops in LOM’s Dystopia http://www.lomiscoming.com/I took the original photo near L.A.’s downtown at the onramp to the Santa Monica Freeway going east, immediately off 8th Street near where 8th intersects with Mateo Street.

That graffiti mural is central to the image. It provided an excellent set off for the dystopic presence of the ominous war drone and the napalm cl...

I emphasize here “Beyond Dogma and Doctrine.” I have often stated usually in response to strident calls to support this or that issue or cause . . . THERE ARE WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS OF POWER AND THERE ARE WHEELS BEHIND THOSE WHEELS. The manipulation from behind the scenes never ends and neither does the horror and pain. I’m the little man and I don’t care from which direction the wheel is coming from, I’m tired of getting run over.

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Some time back when I first got on Facebook back in the SB 1070 days and started posting about the sci fi novel – LOM – that I was writing, a Latino artist from Texas told me that LOM better be as good as Bradbury and Asimov. This after I had praised his work and after it was he who had sought me out on Facebook. I didn’t bother to tell the artist that his art was good but it sure as hell didn’t measure up to Van Gogh or Rivera. What I can say to prospective readers about LOM is this – when L...

A long-time Facebook friend, Christina, messaged me, the Sunday night of the 2014 Oscars,

“I can see you loving Cuarón

funny enough

chicano sci-fi

that’s your forte

and Cuarón loves sci-fi and Mexico

his film children of men combines sci-fi with immigration politics.”

Well, Christina started with the welcomed and honest distinction my friends, so I’ll continue in that vein…

Alfonso Cuarón ’s impressive sweep of the 86th Academy Awards culminating with Best Director for Gravity is mos...

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This piece of Russian propaganda-journalism from Moscow caught my eye, “Foe the Win: U.S. adopts Al-Qaida tactics in drone strikes.” It focuses on how the U.S. is using an Al Qaida tactic, which is illegal according to the Rules of War that nations supposedly follow. Namely, the tactic is to attack a site that was previously attacked or bombed to kill those who go there to rescue the wounded or to pick up the bodies of the fallen. Al Qaida booby-troops a bombing site with a secondary IED ti...

Since I wrote original article, a 60s luminary I wrote about, writer and cultural trail blazer Jose Arguelles has passed on. The other Latino writer and trail blazer I wrote about was Carlos Castaneda.

Teachings of Don Juan – A Yaqui Way of Knowledge–Carlos Castaneda

Politicized Nahautlacos on this side of the border shun both Castaneda and Arguelles, electing to identify them with New Age ideology. I don’t believe that Castaneda and Arguelles are similarly perceived throughout Mexico and La...

I mentioned that while I was a freshman at San Fernando Valley State College (which became California State University, Northridge) I attended the first Crusade for Justice Youth conference in Denver, Colorado. I should add that while at that conference I witnessed a true Chicano peace warrior, Corky Gonzales with the poet Alurista at his side read out the El Plan de Aztlan, proclaiming that only through self-determination would our communities know justice. It was also my honor to hear Cork...

My updated notes on the original article . . .

Friends, we’re in the summer of 2012, almost half a century since that famous event took place in San Francisco Park in 1967. We’re now in an America facing voter suppression, attacks against women’s rights, open racist attacks against the first African American president surreptitiously and not so surreptitiously sanctioned by a cynical opposition party, attacks against gay rights and immigrants and more. This is an America where a Libertaria...