I rolled the mud into a shit log the way a child might roll out a Play-Doh snake. I curled it around itself, taking inspiration from rubber doggy poo, and then I set it down gingerly on my English teacher’s front porch. I soiled some Kleenex and arranged it dirt-side-up next to the little mud [...]
Greetings from the International Man of Mystery! I don’t really like Halloween that much. I stopped dressing up in 5th grade, rather than 6th. I felt a little foolish the next day when all my fellow 6th graders brought candy to school. I thought “Shit I could have gone one more year! I thought I [...]
On my first Halloween after I moved to the U.S., it took me at least half a day before I realized there was neither a priest nor a nurse employed at my workplace.
I had not understood that (a) Halloween could include any fancy dress costume and that (b) one might wear such attire to work. [...]
Scott Haefner Shows his Stuff
This semester I taught an Integrated Learning studio for Otis College of Art and Design. I co-taught the class with Sandra de la Loza, an excellent Chicana artist working here in Los Angeles. We brought a small group of students to Laton, a tiny rural town in the [...]
The Sheriff lives on Filion Street. The Sheriff is a woman named Brittney. The Sheriff is not really a sheriff at all, yet has presented the following behaviors:
-Chalk marked our renter Jason’s car tires.
-Left notes on Jason’s car, my husband’s car, our neighbor Joe’s car, and in our mailbox (Allegedly. More on [...]