This is the actual homeless man who became the inspiration for the “Troll” in Death Wave. Troll is a major character in the novel and is first introduced in the chapter named after him: Chapter 3: The Troll.
Warm basso rumbles. It was her baby and it hurt her that such a deep demonic sound could come from such a little girl’s tummy. Her daughter bravely held her pinky as the two stood in line outside the Lenox Avenue Soup Kitchen. They silently stared forward, waiting their turn.
There wasn’t anything to do but not to make eye contact with anyone else. Such was the dark energy in the air of that cold October night. Everyone looked out-of-sorts as they stood bundled up against the wind fighting the harsh realities of Mother Nature. Everyone battled a new feeling of being disheveled and lost, everyone except maybe the homeless guy people called “The Troll”. He always looked disheveled and lost. Click to continue »
Just did an interview with Isaac Davis Jr. of Junior’s Cave. He’s a great guy and has a great site which has a whole social networking site friendsmix.net as well. I’m very sure it will give FaceBook a run for their money. When you join be sure to friend me.
Isaac: Hi Steve, I wanted to first thank you for taking the time from your busy schedule to complete this interview with our Webzine. You were born and raised in Southern California. Describe a little about how growing up in Southern California help you realize your love for theatre. Steve: Hi Isaac. Thank you for the privilege to be on Junior’s Cave. Great looking site! It’s my pleasure. Click to continue »
I was sitting at my laptop writing today with this on the coffee table staring me back in the face.
UCLA forecast: DARK DAYS
Then the byline went on to say that unemployment is going to be just terrible. (that’s how it came across to me)
I read part of the article which quoted the prestigious Anderson School of Business who said that the this would be a slow economic recovery with massive unemployment – This is despite the recent bit of Wall Street recovery.
That’s about when I stopped reading. That’s about when my stomach started to turn thinking of those dark days ahead.
Still, I kept looking back at the business section haunting me as I was trying to write. And, that’s when I saw the second sentence of the byline. “But policy changes hamper predictions.” Click to continue »
I’m not sure if a schizophrenic homeless man named Mr. Ayres’ dream was to be a world famous cello player but that’s what he got. Famous
How famous? Well, how about numerous LA Times articles and a 60 minutes segment. And, oh yeah and a movie of his life story called The Soloist starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.