WCS 5: Subtweet the Prevailing Narratives

[Shots of celebrities in luxury boxes are inherently uninteresting]

Alright. We’ve been doing this about a month now. Thanks for continuing to trip with me.

One of the many positives about starting this West Coast Sojourn has been reconnecting with people from my past. Last week I started talking to illustrator Calef Brown. He did the 1997 LA Weekly cover for “The Delbert in Me,” the reported essay that became Ghetto Celebrity, my 2003 memoir.

He and I digitally ruminated on the terrible fact that the once-towering alternative newspaper’s archives aren’t available to the world. So much top-shelf writing ran in the LA Weekly. Also, Calef sent me a spot—an inside illustration from the layout from The Delbert in Me.

Illustration by Calef Brown

I think the initial piece of writing ran 7,500 words.

But enough about the distant past. Let’s talk about the week.