KEN LAYNE

Here's a short interview I did with Mike Davis, author of the best modern studies of Los Angeles. (The interview itself was much, much longer and loaded with esoteric LA history, but I only had 1,200 words in the mag.) It's in the debut issue of New Angeles, a downtown/eastside monthly.

How do you write all day for work and then try to work on books or whatever at night? You drink a bottle of wine and go to sleep, that's what.

To fight this syndrome, I suckered myself into serializing a book for LAist, the fine Los Angeles publication edited by Tony Pierce. The alleged book is called Stucco Apocalypse, and it's a non-fiction thing about the coming collapse of Southwestern U.S. civilization due to a quadruple-pronged prong of permanent drought, permanent oil shortages, environmental collapse, real estate/economic collapse and race/class war. It is, obviously, a comedy -- but a comedy of hope.

Go read the introductory chapter here at LAist, The Quick Goodbye, and look for a new chapter every week or so.

The latest chapter of the alleged book was posted on LAist last week, maybe.

Here it is: Stucco Apocalypse: Now Is The Time To Buy!

As nobody reads these things -- including the author -- I should probably stop wasting my time.

New system / idea / book soon, maybe, or not. Meanwhile, I use up all my good comedy on Wonkette, 9-5, like Dolly Parton.