Full Blue Moon Dementia

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Gorsky Press Podcast Released 19 October 2012     Patrick O’Neil reads "Something’s Wrong" by Gorsky Press   Excerpt from my memoir Hold Up 13E Note Editions 2013      

Old woman in wheelchair, out front of a liquor store, squinting in the glare of the overhead light, smokes a cigarette and panhandles for change. 11:38PM and it’s still hot, the day having been a scorcher. Two kids walk past, laughing, and ignoring her pleas. One of them drops his empty coke can on the...

It’s eleven-thirty pm and he’s standing on the front porch of a slightly disheveled two-story wood framed house. Located on a dark side street, across from the gas station, and the men’s rehab next door. Hesitant, he reaches to press the doorbell, but stops. Glancing up he sees the camera. Pictures his digitalized image on...

  I walk onto campus against the flow of students and cars exiting the parking lot. I’m teaching tonight and Gayle, the woman I teach with is sick. So, it’s only me and I don’t want to be late. A cold wind is blowing. Shaking the palm trees and bushes, as the streetlights cast elongated...

He takes the coins and runs them through his fingers into the cup between his legs. Each one thuds when it hits the bottom. As the cup fills there’s a metallic splash every time another coin drops. “Dollar please, just one dollar. Come on people. I have needs too.” He’s sprawled on the sidewalk, his...

It’s a sunny warmish morning with blue skies and puffy cumulous clouds heading inland from the sea. Not exactly typical for Los Angeles in December, but after yesterday’s crazy Santa Ana winds the calm weather is a welcomed relief. As I head outside a woman walks by with her dog, pushing their way through piles...

In the city of Los Angeles there’s an apartment on North Gardner Street, just south of Sunset Blvd. In early 1990 my friend Chris lived there with a computer nerd junkie named Chuckles. Chris and I sold heroin out of the apartment. It was the old days – before cell phones. Everything was done through...

Fourteen Hills 17.2 2011 Release Party and Reading Review: SF Weekly 5/23/11 – reprinted without permission. Loud Bikers Can’t Stop Release of Fourteen Hills Literary JournalBy Evan Karp College and motorcycles. They go together. College and literary journals. Yep, those too. College literary journals and motorcycles? Not usually, although they did Friday night as SF...

In case you’ve never seen this, here is my film: The YAA Girlz and the Deadly Sparks. The YAA Girlz and the Deadly Sparks – A Patrick O’Neil Film © 2009Running time: 12.5 minutes Directed, Filmed. Edited, Scored, and Interviews Conducted by Patrick O’Neil. The YAA Girlz and the Deadly Sparks: were two all female...