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LES & ANNIE CLAYPOOL: Echo Park’s Last And Truest Bohemiansnew

Little more than 50 years ago, a guy named Les Claypool lived with his lovely wife Annie at the top of Echo Park Avenue in what may be the most Bohemian section of Los Angeles. They lived in a home built on the steep hillside out of giant redwood lumber and lots of glass and sunshine. It was a lovely place to wake up in after a great night of partying.
Random Lengths News  |  Lionel Rolfe  |  04-06-2012  |  Commentary

The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohnnew

This is the first chapter from the picaresque novel by noted author and journalist Lionel Rolfe, which recounts the sexual and political travails of the irascible, blacklisted title character, a reporter still harboring his besieged idealistic belief in humanity's innate goodness and America's dubious potential for good amid a reality of avarice, pragmatism, cynicism, and materialism.
Random Lengths News  |  Lionel Rolfe  |  11-04-2010  |  Excerpts

I Am the Fat Man on the Leftnew

Although he disgusted me so much I took it upon myself to stake a claim to being the Fat Man on the Left, I felt a strange kinship with Rush Limbaugh. The kinship was based on both of us being too fat. I was and remain easily as hefty as Limbaugh was and is becoming so again.
Random Lengths News  |  Lionel Rolfe  |  03-07-2009  |  Commentary

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