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Dogged By Scandal OC District Attorney channels his inner Nixon with pets-for-victims program

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acing allegations of operating an illegal slush fund, Richard Nixon—Southern California’s leading contribution to the annals of political corruption—used a dog to help save his career in a televised 1952 speech. Nixon acknowledged taking one secret CONFIDENTIAL present—Checkers, “a little cocker spaniel”—and, pouting, said he wasn’t going to return the gift because his kids R SCOTT loved it. Having masterfully cast MOXLEY himself as caring parent and pet-lover in a single stroke, it took two decades to learn no pooch could save that man from depravity.

Fast-forward to the present, when District Attorney Tony Rackauckas is fleeing his own demons. Known nationally as the Orange County jailhouse-snitch scandal, the 27-month-old calamity exposed cracks in the sanctity of our criminaljustice system. Prosecution teams secretly cheated to win convictions in dozens of cases. Last November, in the wake of those revelations, three dozen respected legal authorities from coast to coast began demanding a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation.

The need for external inspection rests squarely on Rackauckas. From the outset of the scandal, he abdicated moral authority at the Orange County district attorney’s office (OCDA), a prosecutorial agency hovering over a population larger than 20 U.S. states. Instead of determining the extent of the problem, righting the wrongs and punishing wrongdoers on his staff, the 73-year-old DA circled the wagons.

Rackauckas’ responses to his predicament have swung from the initial tepid denial to insincere semi-apology to angry denial to blame-shifting to the current stage of bitter, angry denial. The DA would have us believe key exculpatory records were not purposely hidden from defense attorneys and years of violations of defendants’ constitutional rights were all accidents. At a February public forum, the DA couldn’t maintain his own ruse, essentially lobbing a Hail Mary line: Who cares what prosecutors did to put people in prison if they surmised the defendants were guilty?

Better question: What degree of horror would have appeared on our Founding Fathers’ faces if Rackauckas had made

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The absurd ends-justify-the-means logic may temporarily comfort the DA’s knee-jerk, tough-on-crime supporters.

But that joy must turn to shock when they learn an ugly truth. As we’ve previously reported, the DA has freed violent career criminals, including killers, to avoid proceedings that would produce additional evidence of government scams.

Dodging future PR nightmares, calls for his resignation and, so far, a DOJ probe, Rackauckas summoned his inner Nixon, dusting off the 37th president’s playbook to craft his own Checkers maneuver. On April 8, the five-term DA, supposedly a history buff, lured Los Angeles televisionnews camera crews to his headquarters to announce the creation of a Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS) program at OCDA. With a musical backdrop of 16-year-old “Who Let the Dogs Out?” on a crackling sound system and his staffers pounding out 14 related Tweets, Rackauckas took the stage accompanied by four dogs.

“This program is paws-itively [sic] beneficial for crime victims,” he declared. “I know if I go too long, you will be hounding me to just let the dogs out! So please raise the ruff for the most special guests—our PAWS”—here, he raised his hand in the shape of a paw; no, really—“and their human friends!”

Yet the most troubling aspect of the spectacle wasn’t the lame lines supplied no doubt by Susan Kang Schroeder, Rackauckas’ modern-day fusion of H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Nixon’s cut-throat aides. It was the DA’s attempt to credit OCDA with the idea of comforting wounded individuals with dog companionship. Here’s his summary: Deputy District Attorney Whitney Bokosky “came up with an unconventional plan” to get a young sodomy victim to talk about the crime. “She met with the boy in a park with her own two golden retrievers,” Rackauckas recounted. “The goldens had him at ‘woof,’ [and] the boy lit up.” That experience, so the story goes, led Bokosky to relay the discovery to Roseanne Froeberg, her boss in the sexual assault unit, who—voilà!—then helped to originate the PAWS program.

To neatly wrap up this tale, the DA uttered, “Good job, Whitney!”

See, DOJ and critics? There’s no reason for concern about OCDA vice. They’re caring and creative public servants.

None of the news broadcasts or mainstream daily papers that covered the event asked why Rackauckas, who began his prosecutorial career in 1972, waited until April 2016 to make such an alleged discov-

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ery. Is it believable the pet phenomenon never occurred to anyone in the agency during the first 17 years of Rackauckas’ stint as elected prosecutor?

The cocoon encasing OCDA apparently erases history from the memories of those trapped inside. Pet therapy didn’t recently originate with Bokosky; it’s been around for 150 years. In the first half of the last century, wounded soldiers in both world wars received the treatment. Dog companionship has been provided to cancer and HIV/AIDS patients for more than 30 years. Books, college courses, seminars and national network-TV shows have featured the concept for decades.

It appears the OCDA blunder supply box is bottomless. Four days after the pet fiasco and losing a government-tainted murder case (People v. Eric Ortiz), Rackauckas hit the PR circuit again. The county has successfully hosted an annual crime victims’ march and rally since 2009; marches occurred on the streets, while the grounds of the Old Red Courthouse hosted the rallies.

But Rackauckas, who travels with a security entourage befitting a European king with a copious treasury, nowadays requires a pampered safe space made popular by lefty activists on college campuses. Persons wishing to attend this year’s rally had to complete OCDA registration, agree to a “code of conduct,” undergo scrutiny to determine loyalty to the DA, and then hope Schroeder would send a mandatory ticket for Hall of Administration entrance for the tightly

controlled festivities. An OCDA notice explained, “This event is by invitation only,” which, by definition, made it private. While staffers carried in flowers and beverages for the privileged, stern-faced, armed guards kept out at least three women, even though they’d obtained tickets. DA personnel suspected they sympathized with nearby protesters carrying handmade signs calling Rackauckas “corrupt,” mocking his alliance with killer cops who targeted unarmed minority youth and seeking his resignation.

Behind locked doors, one-way reflective glass and a wall of police, the DA— who lives in San Clemente, not far from Nixon’s post-White House refuge—read the prepared gobbledygook of a seasoned politician. Nobody in the select audience laughed when he said, “Orange County is and will always be the place where reform begins [in California].”

More accurately, OC is the state’s epicenter for courthouse shenanigans and, on the lighter side, inadvertent hilarity.

Schroeder explained the event had to be private only to permit “a more intimate feel.” To punctuate the absurdity, Rackauckas barked he’d “NEVER” [all caps in speech text] stop fighting for more state executions, and then Schroeder allowed a musical group to perform John Lennon’s lovey-dovey “Imagine.”

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hen it comes to the NITOC events at the Huntington Beach pool, the public was apparently unaware of the precarious nature of its safety and well-being. That was clear as one speaker after another supporting NITOC came to the microphone at a Jan. 19 City Council meeting to protest the group’s exclusion from the pool back in October. The speakers not only spoke about the benefits of the naturists lifestyle—the absence of body shaming, healthy body image, the fact that it just feels right (you know what they’re talking about)—but also how they had been using the pool for eight years and had never heard a single complaint.

They had covered any windows around the pool with paper to make it impossible to look in from outside. They had set up a table at the entrance, checked people in to make sure that no one just wandered in.

Rather than complain about the events, city lifeguards thought of them as a pleasant and easy-paying gig. Indeed, in a 2008 Orange County Register story about how the NITOC had to use the pool because there were so few places they could be naked outside the confines of their homes, then-20-year-old lifeguard Paul Armstrong said the events were so void of problems that he had in fact become bored and decided to join in as a naturist. He got in trouble for that, so the next time one of the events came around, he decided to go as a participant, saying, “Everyone’s just cool.” Whether it was the food the naturists always remembered to bring for the staff or that they cleaned up after themselves and made sure they were out of the pool at or before the designated deadline, apparently a lot of people felt that way.

No one spoke up against them at that January meeting, least of all the council members themselves, who seemed somewhat stunned that this was being discussed at all. The council had no part in banning NITOC; that had come about through the actions of the triumvirate of Gates, city manager Fred Wilson and community-services director Janeen Laudenback, who sent NITOC a letter telling them they would no longer be allowed in the pool because of the city’s public nudity ordinance of 2007.

Allen Baylis knew all about that ordinance. In 2007, the founder and president of NITOC defended Mike Ferreira, a man who “liked to stand around naked and smoke cigarettes

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nd you drive. Out of Huntington Beach, out of OC, out to where stands the original In-N-Out and its company store, which sells In-N-Outrelated T-shirts and hoodies, and maybe you smile to yourself because where you’re headed, you’re not gonna need any of that. Then again, maybe you don’t smile because, you know, Baldwin Park.

And you drive. Out past Ontario Airport, out to Palm Springs’ porch, out to Colton, which asks the question, “Is there ever any reason to go to Colton?” And you know the answer is “Yeah” when folks back where you’re from call you dirty, when government officials ban you from public places because they say you’re a danger to “public safety,” though they’re not very specific at all about which public and what safety, and when anyone asks them to get specific, they say, “Trust me.” And the same people question your rights to be who you are around your own children, calling you, at best, irresponsible and, at worst, well . . . they never say it, but everyone knows what they’re saying, you know, when the city attorney who facilitated kicking you out says you and your kind have “admitted they bring children to these ‘closed environment’ events.”

Yeah, you know.

And you drive. Into Colton until housing gets thinner and street signs announcing mule crossings become more plentiful, and you drive until you see the sign for Olive Dell Ranch—“A Family Nudist Resort”—and you hang a left, drive to the security gate, talk to the guard, wait for the large iron gate to swing open and park among the dusty trailers, lovely scenery and palpable libertarian vibe personified bumper sticker-wise by “I believe in my constitutional right to bare arms . . . and chests and legs and . . .” And finally you’re done driving, and after all that, when you’ve parked your car, you can finally, so far from home, do what you do every day inside of it and take off your clothes.

Because there are getting to be so few places where you can do that outdoors. The people who have come to Olive Dell on this Sunday come from all over Southern California—from San Diego to the San Fernando Valley—to a group called Naturists In the OC (NITOC). Though everyone attending today’s event, the 5K Bare Burro Run, knows what it’s like to see the stunned looks of judgment, to hear the coded tee-hees that say you’re a freak for preferring to live this way. It was the folks of NITOC who made headlines earlier this year when they were banned from reserving and using Huntington Beach’s city gym and indoor pool; the story was quickly picked up and run with by local TV and newspapers along with international news outlets and news websites such as Yahoo, VICE and Huffington Post.

Unfortunately, headlines were pretty much all that many of those news organizations were interested in regarding the story, the opportunity to write such titillating gems as “Gloves Come Off in ‘Bare’ Knuckles Battle Between Huntington Beach, Group of Naturists” (KCBS-TV Channel 2 news website) and “California Nudist Told to Cover Up” (Daily Mail) without digging very deeply into things. For example, while most mentioned that NITOC had been holding events at the gym multiple times per year for eight years, they also reported as fact what city attorney Michael Gates had said when explaining the ban, that there had been “incidents” on top of “complaints” from city employees who worked the events.

There was virtually no mention of the fact that more than six months after the ban was put in place, Gates still has not said

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what the incidents or complaints were and which city employees complained. In fact, the only city employees who seemed to want to talk were folks who said they really enjoyed working the events, that the naturists were responsible and well-behaved and so much fun that at least one HB employee, after working an event, actually attended a subsequent one as a participant.

That something like this would happen in a city that not only celebrates, but also markets itself on beach culture—Surf City—a culture that celebrates the body, seems odd, especially when you consider that virtually every day—certainly every day in spring and summer—Orange County’s most popular beach, crowned by a statue of a naked surfer, is home to flesh-andblood ones who regularly use PCH as a changing room, their own naked bodies hidden, sometimes barely and sometimes not at all, by hoisted towels, where women and girls in bikinis somehow present themselves more provocatively than their naked counterparts at Olive Dell.

What is disturbing is that HB’s war against these naturists has been carried out with a kind of Star Chamber efficiency unburdened by actual facts, names, times or events. The accused, NITOC, has never been told what they are actually accused of or who is making the accusations. The reason for the ban has been given at some times as personal preference of employees, at others because of the Kafka-esque unnamed “incidents,” and therefore the naturists are to be excluded in the interest of the Orwellian catch-all that is “public safety”— the language of coups and dystopian teen lit.

What the hell is going on here?

Gates was asked as much on the city’s Facebook page. He couldn’t actually say what was going on, he said; there were issues of public safety and possible litigation and a lot of stuff that didn’t involve facts. But one thing was important, he said: “You have to trust me.”

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and drink beer” at his home at the corner of Second Street and Walnut Avenue.

Complaints came, and Ferreira was charged with public indecency. The charges were eventually lessened, but it caused the city to write its own public nudity ordinance. With that, Baylis and other members of NITOC thought it best— and safest—to rent the local gym and pool and take the public out of the equation.

“When you rent the facility, and you stop people at the door and say, ‘You’re not getting in unless you’re a member of our organization or a guest of a member,’ that’s private,” Baylis says.

Though the ponytail down his back may play into some sort of hippie expectation by

outsiders, Baylis describes himself as a Goldwater Republican who believes his right to swing his fist ends at the tip of another person’s nose, the kind of man who put himself through law school while working as an airplane mechanic, the kind of lawyer with a healthy distrust of the government whose email signature is a quote from Lavrenti Beria, Stalin’s secret police chief: “Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime.”

But things with the city had proceeded well, and NITOC was scheduling multiple events each year, usually in the fall and winter. When the Register reporter asked how the swims were being allowed when there was a ban on public nudity, city spokesperson Laurie Payne pretty much echoed Baylis’ own words, saying, “It is not illegal to be nude in a private setting.”

Nevertheless, Gates has said that pressure was building during the time NITOC was using the pool. “The change [in policy] was not sudden—I know some of the naturists think it was,” he says. “This had been evolving over eight years.”

However, Jennifer McGrath, Huntington Beach city attorney from 2002 to 2014, says that there was no such evolution when she held office. “To my knowledge, I didn’t hear about any incidents,” says McGrath, now the city attorney of Merced. “For instance, in my 12 years [as city attorney], I missed only five City Council meetings. During all those meetings, I never had anyone in the neighborhood or anyone in that building come to the podium and complain about that use.”

Gates has said that the change in policy may have come as a shock because his office enforces all laws and doesn’t play “favorites.” But Baylis can’t recall ever meeting McGrath, let alone being a favorite, since there never was any reasons to talk about their use of the pool. McGrath says the reason for that is simple: No laws were being broken.

“This is a situation where a group was renting exclusive use of a public facility, so there’s no laws being broken,” McGrath says. “The law says you can’t be nude on the beach, can’t be nude in a visible place from the public right of way. Nothing like that was going on.”

Though he says he is simply fulfilling his elected duty to enforce the law, Gates is also quick to acknowledge that his action and the letter did not originate with him. “None of this was driven by me,” he says. “It’s been a concern of the community services department for years.”

Those with NITOC knew as much.

They say that they’ve been told by those inside Huntington Beach city government—“We have a lot of friends around, you never know who’s a nudist,” Baylis says—that it was Laudenback who pushed for the ban. One could say that Laudenback, whose department oversees staffing of the gym and pool, was simply looking out for her staff, who, she and Gates would claim, complained about having to work the naturist events.

But according to numerous people who worked the event as lifeguards, it was never a problem to get people to work

it. Sean Makam worked the event several times. “They were a polite and very friendly group of people from all walks of life,” he says. “Teachers, city officials, university students, just a nice group of people. It was just like any other party.

People mostly talked. It was very easy to work. Maybe you have to throw a beach ball back in the pool every now and then— that was about it.”

Their friends inside city government told members of NITOC that Laudenback simply had never liked the event and was looking for someone sympathetic to help her end it, and she found that person in Gates.

We, of course, wanted to ask Laudenback about that, so we called her and said we, you know, wanted to ask her about that.

She said she’d have to call Gates first and ask what she was allowed to say and what she wasn’t. We don’t know what he told her because she never called us back.

We’re gonna assume she would echo the sentiments of Gates and say this was a question of getting employees to work the event, even though, Makam says, it only required three people to work such an event—“one administrator, two lifeguards”—and that there was never any problem doing that.

Former HB lifeguard Keri Boyd emphasized on the city’s Facebook page that no one was ever forced to work the event.

“They don’t schedule you to work these events,” she wrote. “It’s a private event, so it is posted in the office as an extra shift to pick up to earn more mula $$$ . . . It never bothered me when I was working. I never felt like it was a distraction from my job to have people swimming naked. ‘Oh, no, not a boob!’ ‘Oh, no, not a penis!’ ‘Oh, no, not a hairy muff!’ We’ve all seen genitalia before. Just a bunch of nudists doin’ their nudist thang and livin’ their life!”

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ow, let’s be clear about something. When you hear that someone has a problem with nudists, there’s a tendency to say they have a problem with the human body. That’s not true, of course. No one gets freaked out or bans someone from a public pool for showing too much clavicle or displaying a brazen amount of scapula.

As Boyd’s post says, this is about penises and vaginas. That’s it. And it’s not just the appearance of them, but what they suggest: sex. Somehow, some people can’t get their mind around the fact that a penis and a vagina can just exist; they assume, if exposed, they will be used.

Never mind the fact that the atmosphere at Olive Dell, while not asexual, does seem to be a good deal more wholesome and fun than one finds on the beach in Huntington. People smile and meet one another’s gaze. They seem happy, and they say it’s a direct effect of being naked, that one is literally more comfortable in their own skin, and that exposing one’s body actually inhibits body shaming, discourages anyone trying to put on airs. As the group motto says, “Body acceptance is the idea. Nude recreation is the way.”

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Next, when he says that naturists “admitted” bringing their children to the event, it intimates they are acknowledging some wrongdoing. A naturist “admitting” they raise their children in a naturist lifestyle is akin to someone “admitting” they homeschool their child or someone “admitting” they raise their son or daughter a Christian.

It’s this kind of intimation that makes naturists angriest. They tend to take things in stride when dealing with other slights and discrimination, but they find the use of their children against them as gross, as would anyone vaguely or otherwise accused of pimping out their kids.

When asked if he felt the children were in danger, Gates said, “Well, I certainly won’t jump to any conclusions. I don’t want to make any inferences.”

He then went about making some inferences. “I think people need to understand what’s going on there,” he says. “The naturists have come to City Council meetings and made their own statements about what they do there, and my point is saying that and similar things about this situation is that what the naturists say goes on at these events speaks for itself. They’re admitting that. The public and reporters who are trying to understand need to understand the scope of it.”

The scope of it today is that the naturists are out. Their options include suing the city to get back in the pool, though they just might settle for getting a straight answer from someone, anyone at the city.

“They said it was against the law, but it’s not,” Baylis says. “The city attorney told me as much when I met with him.

Then they told us it was because they were unable to get volunteers, but that just wasn’t true. So then they said it was ‘incidents’ and ‘complaints,’ but they’ve yet to present us with so much as one of those.

They won’t tell us what this is really all about. We have an idea, but we really need to hear from them. We really would like to talk about it and work with them on this.”

Gates, for his part, says the city is interested in working with NITOC also. Pretty much in the way they’ve handled things the past six months. Asked if he could foresee a compromise that would get the NITOC back in the pool, Gates says certainly.

“They’re welcomed to come any time,” he says. “As long as they’re clothed.”

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And yet, group members are well aware they will constantly have to explain they are not swingers or molesters. People seem to conveniently forget that the overwhelming number of sexual predators not only come fully dressed, but also usually in some pretty officious duds, i.e., clergy, coaches and teachers. But it’s the mention or suggestion of penises and vaginas that get people worked up and delivered to a dark place where things such as conservative values of personal freedom and responsibility go to die.

And then there’s just stupid things.

On the same Facebook thread in which Boyd had urged people to get past their junior-high attitudes, her post was joined by those who were concerned that naked people in a pool were less hygienic than those wearing swimsuits, as if a $20 pair of trunks from Target were some kind of magical block between body and water.

Then there were those who, upon learning of the event, said they were concerned that it took place just blocks from a public school; never mind that the events took place in the evening and on the weekend, when no kids are supposed to be at the school. Logic and calendars aside, the concern was that the naturists, their boldness and base urges activated Gremlins-style by water hitting their genitals—you know, like what happens to everyone who takes a shower or bath—would run uncontrollably next door to do their heinous acts.

As silly as it sounds, it’s something Gates has played upon, intimating on that same Facebook thread that something truly diabolical was going on, writing that “the naturists have admitted (even at the last City Council meeting) they bring their children to these ‘closed environment’ events . . .”

Now, we’re gonna give Mr. Gates the benefit of the doubt and assume he’s not stupid [Editor’s note: No, actually, Gates is a pendejo; Steve’s just too nice to say that].

Therefore, that comment can only be seen as a cynical attempt to get folks who don’t just want to “trust him” to somehow come to his side by first attempting to make it seem that the children are in some kind of danger by being at these events. If he truly believed that it would be not only his right, but also his duty as city attorney to end the events while they were happening and see that anyone committing a crime was prosecuted.

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The dream-pop/psychedelic-rock project of French musician Melody Prochet comes to the OC this weekend, showering you with luminous vocals, velvet riffs and distortion grit.

Although she MORE only has one ONLINE album under her OCWEEKLY.COM belt (2013’s critically acclaimed, self-titled LP), the multi-instrumentalist did release a fairly funked-up single, “Shirim,” in 2014, which left fans waiting—and now begging—for another full-length. Her last U.S. tour was cancelled because of visa problems, so catch this rare bird while she’s in flight—this time supported by opening act Blank Blue—and make your gray matter feel ever so pink.

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One of the more entertaining shows on TV is RuPaul’s Drag Race. Now in its eighth season, the show is the highest rated on LOGO and has inspired legions of drag queens, under the guidance of RuPaul, to become the next drag superstar. This Battle of the Seasons will feature many of the familiar faces who have gone on to bigger fame. Hosted by Michelle Visage, the Anaheim stop of this variety show includes performances from the brightest stars of Drag Race folklore.

Expect an array of fiery and fabulous performances, and don’t be surprised if some of your favorite queens show up unannounced in what’s sure to be a memorable evening.

RuPaul’s Drag Race Battle of the Seasons at City National Grove of Anaheim, 2200 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, (714) 712-2700; www.citynationalgroveofanaheim.com. $39.50. —DANIEL KOHN

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Laguna Beach’s Artists Republic has simply been killing it in the contemporary-art game in recent months. It was the only OCbased gallery at LA Art Show back in January, and founderTorrey Cook curated the much-lauded “Women of the New Contemporary” exhibit at La Sierra University’s Brandstater Gallery in Riverside, showcasing a plethora of female artists from around Southern California. For its annual art show, “TEN OC,” 10 different artists living and working in Orange County, from up-and-comers to world-renowned status, have been brought together.This year’s roster includes returning artists Chantal de Felice and Ben Brough, plus Brian Bent, Craig “Skibs” Barker, Danny Schutt, David Blake, Laurie Hassold, Michelle Bickford, Sophie St. Onge and Tyler Warren.

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San Clemente Micro Brew Fest Do you consider yourself a craft-beer connoisseur? Are you constantly checking out the freshest IPAs available in your region? Does the thought of downing a Budweiser make you recoil in disgust? Well, then, get ready to drink to your heart’s (and body’s) content at this weekend’s largest brewery expo in San Clemente, celebrating Southern California’s finest breweries and the lushes who love ’em.

Presented by Left Coast Brewing Co., the Sixth Annual San Clemente Micro Brew Fest features tastings from more than 15 different craft breweries, while VIPs can enjoy limitededition beers made solely for today’s festival.

Food trucks, hand-made gourmet items from nonprofit organizations and live music round out the fun, which raises funds for military welcome-home events held by the San Clemente Chamber of Commerce.

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course, is the second annual Long Beach Zine Fest, with a full day of music (Avi Buffalo, Bombon, among others), a slate of panelists (including the Weekly’s own Gustavo Arellano and Davy Rothbart of the formidable FOUND) and workshops. And of course there’s a colossal roster of zinemakers on deck—more than 80 publishers of all sizes at last count—presenting their newest and truest creations.

Long Beach Zine Fest at Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach, (562) 437-1689; lbzinefest. com. 11 a.m. Free. —CHRIS ZIEGLER

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No other form of ’80s music gets overlooked like freestyle does—and what a disservice done to the electro dance genre that gave us Nice & Wild’s “Diamond Girl,” Debbie Deb’s “When I Hear Music,” and Shannon’s “Let the Music Play!” Thankfully, our freestyle idols come back every year to the Queen Mary for a night of nostalgia. The 11th Annual Freestyle

Festival returns with Stevie B, Connie, Sweet Sensation and more. Hip-hop acts from the 1980s jump in the fray, too, with Salt-N-Pepa, Biz Markie, and 2 Live Crew set to rock the boat! Where better to see buzzed fortysomethings showing they still got dance moves?

Freestyle Festival at the Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Hwy., Long Beach, (800) 928-2181; www.queenmary.com. 3 p.m. $45-$100.

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Tonight’s double feature at Hibbleton Gallery ends its monthlong “Intro to Japanese Cinema” series. While he’s noted for having inspired a myriad of other directors, Akira Kurosawa was himself inspired by English playwright William Shakespeare and adapted at least three of his plays into films. Kurosawa’s versions of Macbeth and King Lear—Throne of Blood and Ran, respectively—take place in feudal Japan, where his austere samurais run afoul of tragedy and warfare. Audiences will get to view excerpts from Throne of Blood, followed by a screening of Ran in its entirety.

Akira Kurosawa’s Ran and Throne of Blood at Hibbleton Gallery, 223 W. Santa Fe Ave., Fullerton; hibbleton.com. 8 p.m.

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There’s a party happening at the Wayfarer tonight—and you’re invited. LA-based singer Gavin Turek will be performing her arsenal of synthy disco-pop songs that have refreshed audiences and inspired collaborators such as Mayer Hawthorne and Tokimonsta. In fact, some of Turek’s biggest hits stem from her fruitful union with Tokimonsta, whom she met through MySpace. Produced by Tokimonsta, their EP, T H I S CO D E titled You’re Invited, was TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE OCWEEKLY released in 2015 to wide IPHONE/ANDROID APP critical acclaim. But FOR MORE EVENTS OR VISIT on her own, Turek is a ocweekly.com vocal wonder who can flex a disco anthem for broken-hearted lovers working out their feelings on the dance floor. Expect this global sensation to show up in one of her signature 1970s fringe dresses (she’s got one in every color) and slay the house, as a disco diva should.

Gavin Turek with Otherwhile and Charles Fullwood at the Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; www. wayfarercm.com. 9 p.m. $10-$12. 21+.

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Bust out the white suspenders and bowler hat, and get ready for some ultraviolence happening tonight at the Frida Cinema. Our own Matt Coker handpicked tonight’s screening of A Clockwork Orange for the monthly OC Weekly Staff Pick series, probably for the operative word orange relating to Orange County, or possibly because one of his nicknames is Clockwork Coker, or even more possibly because A Clockwork Orange is one of director Stanley Kubrick’s finest movies. It’s a biting crime film that borders on horror, provides uncanny social commentary to our struggling times, and still remains iconic and cautionary to this very day. Come and hear Matt discuss why he chose it, and maybe gulp down a couple of glasses of milk at the Korova Milk Bar—a.k.a. the Frida Cinema’s lobby.

OC Weekly Staff Pick Series presents A Clockwork Orange at the Frida Cinema, 305 E. Fourth St., Santa Ana, (714) 285-9422; thefridacinema.org.

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Hard to find anybody who dislikes the multitalented Margaret Cho, notwithstanding her notorious struggle with producers of the doomed sitcom All-American Girl, critiqued as either too Asian or not Asian enough, and her righteous attacks on reactionaries and homophobes, not to mention campaigns for ethnic representation, gay rights and against bullying. Cho has acted in film and TV, recorded comedy albums and toured widely. She recently cited the late Joan Rivers as a role model and friend, which is funny in so many ways. On the (spiked) heels of her recent PsyCHO tour, Cho returns to the Irvine Improv, where she’ll no doubt live up to her own selfreview: “You’re only good when you’re offending people.”

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These days, we’re all too familiar with discussions about the raw deal women have in the film industry—not enough diverse roles in front of the camera or in the writer’s room and director’s chair, unequal pay between the sexes, etc.— which makes Dr. Emily Carman’s book Independent Stardom all the more subversive. In it, she writes about actresses such as Irene Dunne, Carole Lombard, Barbara Stanwyck, Janet Gaynor and others, who fought for artistic freedom by freelancing their acting roles in an era when Hollywood’s oppressive studio contract system was king. Carman gives an illuminating talk on how they did it, which will give you new insight (and respect) for these actresses as savvy businesswomen navigating yet another man’s world.

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Baos Hog makes a killer crispy pork belly bun—and an even better Hainan chicken rice

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you expect and hope a piece of pork belly could be. In the sandwich, it’s embraced by the warm hug of that bun and flanked by a litany of toppings, including cucumbers, pickled red onions, pickled carrots, fried shallots, curls of scallions, smears of hoisin and a really good Sriracha garlic mayo.

Other than the Bolsa, the only other bao I recommend is the one with the fish. Into the stock steamed bread, the chefs tuck a tender, deep-fried filet of basa, but also a wonton chip, a slather of tangy honey mustard and some sort of slaw. It’s easily Baos Hog’s most interesting and inventive bao sandwich. The duck bao, on the other hand, is tough. The braised pork belly bao tends to be stringy. And the cha siu bao— which isn’t at all like the stuff you see at dim sum—can be dry and chewy. There’s even a fried chicken bao and a bao with rib-eye, but I would skip them in favor of having the same proteins with rice.

In fact, though it may be counter to the entire concept of the restaurant, what you really want to eat at Baos Hog are the rice dishes. They’re about twice the price of the baos, but you get three times the meat.

Added to that, you don’t have to deal with the inevitable mess that happens when a steamed bun falls apart halfway in.

One of the most cost-effective rice dishes you can order is the rib-eye and egg, a massive serving of stir-fried beef and scallions, served fuming and aromatic, topped with a perfect sunny-side-up egg. But if there’s one dish I’d get above all else, it would be the Hainan chicken rice. Since it’s easily one of the best plates of its kind in Orange County, I would argue the Hainan chicken rice is

Baos Hog’s true, unspoken specialty. The chicken-broth-cooked rice is, of course, scrumptious. But the steamed chicken is also immaculate and the ginger sauce wondrous—both so close to the Hainan chicken I had at a Singapore hawker stand a few years ago, it’s almost uncanny. Perhaps the most convincing sign this dish is made for connoisseurs is that the dark meat option is more expensive than the white meat—and trust me, when it comes to Hainan chicken, you always want dark meat.

That thigh is preferred over breast might also have something to do with the location. Baos Hog is situated in a particularly hectic corner of Little Saigon that attracts a young Asian customer base fluent in food. Baos Hog’s owners and operators are about the same age as their clients. If they had conceived the concept a few years earlier, they might have gone the food-truck route. The menu is scribbled on a big chalkboard, and ancillary items such as salt-and-pepper wings and deep-fried cauliflower are served in paper baskets. What makes me more convinced are the two flavored lemonades that are not unlike what I’ve seen at the Lime Truck. My favorite is the Watermelon Chiller, and yes, it tastes as though an agua fresca had sex with a slushy at a food-truck meet-up.

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No, I’m not talking about the cha siu bao at dim sum; I’m talking about the relatively new style of bao that has the clamshell of a Chinese-style steamed bun wrapped around meat that’s usually pork. I had one at David Chang’s Momofuku in New York three years ago, when Chang’s pork belly buns were already world famous, and they were everything I heard they would be.

Meanwhile, across town, there was chef Eddie Huang’s BaoHaus—Chang’s pork bun rival—a restaurant that actually specializes in baos. BaoHaus offered steamed buns with fillings that ranged from pork belly to broccolini. And for dessert, there were fried slices of steamed bread that Huang trademarked as Sweet Bao Fries.

Last summer, Baos Hog—Orange County’s first bao sandwich specialist—opened in Garden Grove. Even if it’s more Vietnamese than Taiwanese, Baos Hog has the same DNA as Chang and Huang’s outposts. Baos Hog stuffs the same kind of steamed bun with different meats, including two kinds of pork belly. It even made a dessert out of strips of fried bao and called it CinnaBao Fries. They’re amazing, tasting as though a doughnut had a ménage à trois with a churro and a French toast stick at the county fair.

The best bao sandwich you could have at Baos Hog is the Bolsa, for which a slice of roasted pork belly as thick as a ream of paper comes with the crackle of skin still attached.

The Vietnamese call it heo quay; the Filipinos will say it’s lechon kawali; Mexicans call it chicharrón. But all you need to know is that it’s soft, fatty and crispy—everything

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ou know Inka Cantina means business when you tell your server you’ve never tried chicha morada or maracuya. Whereas most Peruvianrestaurant waiters will offer a smile, a description, then suggest Sprite, the waiters here go behind the bar, grab two small crystal stemware glasses better suited for sipping amaro at a Tuscan castle, and pour a shot of each agua fresca into them. It’s a small gesture, but an important one: It says that not only does this Fountain Valley restaurant want to make you comfortable, whether you’re a first-timer or have spent nights stranded at the Terminal Terrestre in Cusco, but it’s also going to treat you with class.

And class Inka Cantina has un chingo.

Booths and tables are gleaming; paintings of Peruvians fishing in Lake Titicaca and shopping in town plazas line one wall, with alcoves featuring statues of Incan gods lining the other. Soothing charango and flute music provide the soundtrack for some of the better Peruvian cuisine around, an encyclopedic journey through northern and coastal Peru that includes the known (epic tallarines, delicious lomo saltados), the mostly unknown (anticuchos, the beef heart skewers that are the most savory kebabs you can imagine, the Andean chicken soup called aguadito) and the unicorns: You rarely see col de carne, Peru’s version of a stir-fry complete with soy sauce, in Orange County, or a lamb stew so soft it’s almost putty. Even rarer is asado de la abuela—Grandma’s roast, which is really just beef, mashed potatoes, green beans and gravy, a dish that could play in Leisure World but whose savoriness is at home here. And in every dish, again, is class: an order of causa, the archetypical Peruvian chicken salad, comes prepared so intricately it resembles a French pastry (most Peruvian eateries slop it onto the plate as if it were, well, chicken salad).

Fountain Valley doesn’t have too many Peruvians (OC’s not-small population mostly lives in South County and Yorba Linda), so it’s great that Inka Cantina isn’t afraid to specialize in rarities. And best of all? You can drink maracuya and chicha by the pitcher—salud!

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The midscale seafood spot at Huntington Beach’s Pacific City hosts a range of daily specials such as Wine Wednesday, but the Monday special is the real star: $9.99 whole Maine lobsters. That’s right— not just the tail, not just the head, and no, you don’t have to catch it out of a claw machine. A full Maine lobster, cooked fresh and served with a neatly cut shell for easy eating, alongside a lemon and butter.

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There isn’t much of a catch to this deal: It happens every Monday until supplies run out, and it’s one crustacean per person. Pair it with one of Ways & Means’ signature cocktails, such as the exotic Paloma Nueva. Pinchy would have wanted it this way.

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Not quite committed? La Turista is your gateway drink.

Blended with red vino and fresh juices, the flavors mingle well with Vaca’s vermouth. Nosh on your dish of Marconas and corn nuts, or pair it with braised mushrooms and beef oxtail. This year-round sangria makes everything better. Pro tip: The best time to avoid the crowds is right after evening performances start at the surrounding Segerstrom venues. You’ll be craving vermouth in no time.

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hen song and film collide, it’s the best of both creative worlds for folks who can’t choose just one art form over the other. So ears and eyes, rejoice! This year’s Newport Beach Film Festival music series ranges from nostalgic documentaries about California’s desert-rock scene and the rise of Fat Wreck Chords to an experimental short that gives audiences a peek into the mind of iconic singer/songwriter Daniel Johnston. Features tell the stories of a novice reporter finding himself in the midst of rock’s most historic death and a violinist’s humbling experience as a music instructor in one of Brazil’s roughest neighborhoods. Music-lovers also get a rare opportunity to view contemporary and classic music videos on the big screen. So grab a bucket of popcorn, don’t text during films no matter how much AMC wants you to, and rid yourself of the post-Coachella blues with these great music flicks.

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Daniel Johnston’s effortless ability to evoke the deepest of emotions with the simplest of lyrics influenced many Gen-X icons (Kurt Cobain, step right up!). In Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?, the iconic low-fi singer/songwriter engages in introspective conversations with tape recordings of his 22-year-old self in 1983—when the soon-to-be legend began creating his highly influential debut album, Hi, How Are You. This hallucinogenic short film has Johnston coming to terms with his past love, inner demons and current state of happiness (or lack of it). Gabriel Sunday—who also portrays a younger Daniel Johnston in the film—directed the short, while indie-pop darling Lana Del Rey and rapper Mac Miller executive produced.

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On Dec. 8, 1980, ABC news reporter Alan Weiss was admitted to New York’s Roosevelt Hospital with a motorcycle injury. At the same time, chaos reigned in the emergency room as doctors tried to save the life of John Lennon, who had just been shot by Mark David Chapman.

Weiss got to a payphone, where he called his producers, who eventually relayed the message to Monday Night Football announcer Howard Cosell, who then delivered the message heard around the world. The Lennon Report dramatizes this

incredible-but-true story, one that led to Weiss winning an Emmy for his reporting. Stick around after the film for a Q&A with director Jeremy Profe and cast members. At the Triangle. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $15. And at Island Cinema.

April 28, 8 p.m. $15.

Directed by Sergio Machado, The Violin Teacher takes place in Heliópolis, a favela in São Paulo where a talented violinist is crushed to learn he’s been denied entrance to the city’s most prestigious orchestra. He pushes aside his dreams of becoming a famous violinist and reluctantly becomes a music instructor to disenfranchised children exposed to violent gang warfare in the slums. After many tribulations, the prestige-hungry violinist finally bonds with his students and finds a selfless meaning to his life. Think Freedom Writers meets City of God, but with the added ethereal power of music.

Besides the film’s heartwarming sentimental moments, a lively soundtrack with a mash-up of classical compositions and Brazilian funk will have you tempted to

get up from your velvet theater seat and shake your hips Carnaval-style—which you can also do at the Latino Spotlight party right after the film. At Edwards Big Newport, 300 Newport Center Dr., Newport Beach, (844) 462-7342. April 27, 7:45 p.m. $45 (includes party).

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For serious junkies, the art of the music video is appreciated as fondly as the song it seeks to supplement. Take advantage of the opportunity to witness this cinematic art form at the Music Video Showcase on the final night of the festival. Where else in Orange County will you be able to see one of David Bowie’s last visual masterpieces (his video for “Blackstar”) on the silver screen? A collection of 18 modern and original videos are scheduled to play from 7:45 to 9 p.m.—more music videos than MTV has played in years! At the Triangle. April 28, 7:45 p.m. $15.

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Get ready to overload on Mohawks and liberty spikes with A Fat Wreck, the punkas-fuck documentary that looks back on the rise of Fat Wreck Chords, the indie label started by NOFX’s Fat Mike and his ex-wife, Erin Burkett. Notable punkers and frequent Orange County visitors such as Good Riddance, the Descendents, Less Than Jake and Against Me! reminisce about their glory days with punk’s most reckless label. Quirky and crass string puppetry (provided by OC’s own Jennie Cotterill from punk-rock girl band Bad Cop/Bad Cop) supplement the first-hand accounts of sex, drugs and punk rock from the very punks that lived to tell the story.

At Regency South Coast Village, 1561 W. Sunflower Ave., Costa Mesa, (714) 557-5701.

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Today’s alternative rock on the radio would basically be as bland as KOST without the entrancing influence of desert rock, that swirl of hard rock, psychedelia, blues, grunge, metal and punk pioneered in the badlands of Palm Desert in the late 1980s and ’90s. Directed by Jason Pine, Desert Age: A Rock and Roll Scene History takes audiences back to the original drug-and-freak-filled shows powered by generators in secluded canyons. The desert-rock scene was the precursor to Burning Man, the origin for Dissention Records, and the early stomping grounds for Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Yawning Man and Fatso Jetson. Rockers such as Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal—the band forever tied to last November’s

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Funny Girl. The 1968 musical starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice screens as part of the 10th anniversary of Arabic Studies at Chapman University—not because of Babs, but leading man Omar Sharif. Arabic food will be served. Chapman University, Irvine Lecture Hall, 1 University Dr., Orange, (714) 743-7030. Thurs., April 28, 7 p.m. Free.

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Senior Thesis Film Screenings. The lineup includes Icarus, Ray de la Calle, Whining Low and The Witching Hour.

Chapman’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Folino Theater, 283 N. Cypress St., Orange, (714) 997-6765; chapman.edu/dodge. Fri., 7 p.m. Free.

Everything Is Terrible–The Live Experience! Avoid Terrible figureheads and see the found video that brought the world dancing child-god Duane, pedophile-stomping yellow dino and French pubic hair styling. The Frida Cinema, 305 E. Fourth St., Santa Ana; thefridacinema.org. Fri. Live Experience!, 9 p.m.; secret Terrible film, 11 p.m. $8-$10.

A la Folie, Ou Pas du Tout (He Loves Me . . . He Loves Me Not). Laetitia Colombani’s 2002 French psychological drama starring Audrey Tautou kicks off the Santiago Canyon College Languages Department’s International Film Festival, which runs three consecutive Fridays. Santiago Canyon College, Building D, Room 101, 8045 E. Chapman Ave., Orange, (714) 628-4938; www.sccollege.edu/internationalfilmfestival. Fri., 6 p.m. Free.

King Lear. The Shakespeare At 400 series continues with director Richard Eyre’s 1998 adaptation of the 1606 tragedy starring Ian Holm. The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox. I read the 2009 stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel is Wes Anderson’s best film. I like it, but better than Rushmore? The Frida Cinema; thefridacinema.org. Sun., 11 a.m. $1-$5.

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impaled by a 20-foot-long nail—onto a metal panel cut out of an automobile.

It’s Jorg Dubin’s paintings that walk away with the show. His two portraits of the Pope are the most visceral in their Francis Bacon body horror: Nauseating red swirls crawl around under the holy man’s skin in Pontiff; in the second, Boxer, his face is a raw, meaty mess as if he has gone a few rounds in the ring. Sandman urges us to consider business as the new Morpheus, but he warns that the dreams he provides are actually a coulrophobic nightmare, putting him in clown maquillage and oversized shoes. It’s a great companion piece with Army Game, the deadpan Ron English poster of a child in Emmett Kelly hobo-face makeup, colorful camouflage and thousand-yard stare.

Painter Jeff Gillette’s long history of subverting Disney images was the inspiration for Banksy’s Dismaland exhibition last year. His deft slumscape takedown of the Disneyland sign, Fuck, replaces the revered logo with the obscenity, the sign about to collapse under blue skies into the garbage surrounding it. Tom Lamb’s ET Courts’ aerial shot of dilapidated tennis courts is a perfectly distilled vision of “civilization” being overrun by the anarchy of nature, as wasted tendrils of vegetation pop through the cracked clay. F. Scott Hess’ half-naked revelers in Celebrants carry animal (and suspiciously human) bones in a procession; the cannibalism

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and oblivious expressions suggesting a moment waiting to happen at a Donald Trump rally near you. Cultural groupthink is also targeted in Jerry Burchfield and Chamberlain’s photo, Animal Experimentation, featuring a nude man surrounded by television news channels in the dark. A TV antenna is wrapped around his head as if a crown of thorns, the plastic tubing he’s sucking a lifeline as well as an intellectual suicide. Last, but not least, Joella March’s inventive Conjure Justice and Treasure Freedom are two light signs that have letters accentuated via different colors, the result sending quite another message than the one in the title.

There’s a touch of the drunk uncle at Thanksgiving lecturing us on why democratic socialism isn’t communism happening here, but one wishes more of the show let us marinate in its ideas without doing all of the work for us. Granted, a bulldozer may be needed to break through the wall of horseshit built up around us, but for those no longer in childhood, the thrill of watching big machines move around in the dirt isn’t as interesting as it used to be. For the message to really connect, we have to get off our ass and do that driving ourselves.

“AMERIKAN KRAZY: LIFE OUT OF BALANCE” at BC Space, 235 Forest Ave., Laguna Beach, (949) 497-1880; www.bcspace.com. Call for hours. Through May 20. Free.

espite experiencing a major moment of popularity a few years back thanks to vision boards, collage art remains a niche medium, oft-forgotten by audiences who prefer handicraft skills such as drawing or painting. Because when you think about it, what’s so hard about cutting out images from a magazine or a book and sticking ’em together for a strange, finished product? Your kid can do it. Your mom does it every time she sticks magazine cutouts in her scrapbook.

Truth is, since the days of the European Dadaists of the early 20th century, plenty of established conceptual artists have explored the possibilities of taking images out of their original contexts and into something new. Many of them are included in F+ Gallery’s annual collageonly group show, “CUTPASTE.” Now in its third year, “CUTPASTE” includes an eclectic array of work from local to international artists, curated by mixed-media maestro Michael Ziobrowski in the tiny loft space near the Santa Ana train station. This year includes a vintage retrospective by Volcom; a collaged skate deck from Bridge to Skate, a national nonprofit that aims to empower youths through skateboarding; and new work by Winston Smith, the legendary artist behind album covers for Green Day and Dead Kennedys.

With 14 exhibiting artists, this is the largest “CUTPASTE” show yet, and the growth in numbers allows for more range in styles: the politically charged, jumbled-up collages of Smith hang among the surreal, how-didhe-do-it images of Oakland artist Michael Tunk; the glitchy, cut-up photos of Portland’s Emily Hoy complement Costa Mesa-based artist Josh Madrid’s cosmic assemblage of butterflies, flowers and skulls. F+ Gallery is only open for the monthly Santiago Lofts art walk or by appointment, but it’s a worthy visit for the most jarring creations made with an X-Acto knife you’ll ever see.

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f this year’s presidential race is causing you record levels of anxiety as it pulls you into its gaping maw of ineptitude and mean-spirited behavior, “Amerikan Krazy: Life Out of Balance,” the latest exhibition at BC Space, may require a trigger warning. Inspired by Henry James Korn’s new satirical novel, Amerikan Krazy, curator Mark Chamberlain gathered 22 artists and more than twice as many art pieces, all of them designed to celebrate the worst in American values.

You don’t need to read the book to get the show. The former director of the Art, Culture and Heritage program at Orange County Great Park describes his book as a tipped hat to Franz Kafka’s first novel, Amerika, as well as Abbie Hoffman and Paul Krassner’s activism of the 1960s, but it’s also a back-handed commentary on Disney, Mickey Mouse and the corporate themepark mentality of what he calls the “development class.” Chamberlain’s exhibition echoes those concerns, wearing its politics like a neck tattoo. It may be playing a laugh track as it wields its sledgehammer, but subtlety is not the name of the game here.

The worst offenders are fun, if painfully obvious. Case in point: Chamberlain’s collaboration with collage and video artist Max Papeschi, Who’s Sorry Now? Gleefully conjoining Disney characters and other pop culture/corporate icons (the Muppets, Mickey Mouse, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man) and historical tragedies into a Pop Art freak show, there’s only so many visuals of cartoon characters glad-handing one another in front of nuclear explosions or the Twin Towers, before the whole thing feels like a facile attempt to shock. Likewise, while Glenn Brooks’ black-and-white woodcuts—Equal Justice, Ideal Patriot, Seven Course Meal— are superbly made with a lo-fi punk directness, they’re weak in poetic thought, targeting the usual suspects—political corruption, oligarchies, skewed justice and the USA PATRIOT Act—while adding nothing new to the conversation.

On a more successful level, Brooks’ disturbing mixed-media sculptures work much better than his woodcuts. Good Meds Bad Meds, tucked away in the gallery’s bathroom stall, is the sculpted head of a wide-eyed, screaming man being crushed inside a medicine cabinet. Likewise, Bliss, a smiling bald head with a metal plate screwed into his skull as though a sleep mask, recalls Clive Barker at his finest. The late Dustin Shuler’s End of an Era skewers our continuing reliance on fossil fuels in a sort of loop, applying a photograph of his performance piece/sculpture Death of an Era—a 1959 Cadillac lying on its side,

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Hiro says. “I would turn down tattoos I didn’t want to do, but then I’d see how much more money other guys were making. The best tattooers I knew were doing all kinds of tattoos because it is the person getting the tattoo who pays your bills.

I think that’s one of the big differences between here and Japan.�

Even if he’s only tattooing friends, family and a handful of lucky clients these days, Hiro’s wide range of artistic talents might be the best thing to ever come out of Jacksonville.

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n a private studio just outside of Irvine, Tokyo Hiro is living the dream. After more than two decades as a highly respected tattooer, Hiro’s primary focus has shifted to design work—everything from band merch to the shin guards of soccer players, often for some of the biggest names in both music and athletics. But a few times each week, Hiro pulls out his tattoo machines. It’s an art form he’ll never give up entirely, as it’s both his first love and the medium he has built his name on.

Roughly 30 years ago, Hiro was a teenage baseball prospect in his native Japan, practicing with a professional team while still in high school. Unfortunately, he and his classmates had already begun handpoking tattoos into one another, and the professional coaches weren’t about to hire an athlete with ink, which was then widely considered taboo in Japanese culture outside of the Yakuza.

Once baseball was no longer an option, Hiro decided to follow his other passion: American punk rock and metal. With only one American music television channel and no Internet back then, the teenage Hiro wasn’t caught up in the battle between the punks and metalheads of the ’80s. He only knew he wanted to be a part of everything from the Clash to MĂśtley CrĂźe. “I saw a poster for [LA legend] Bob Roberts, and it said he tattooed all these different bands,â€? Hiro says. “After that, I told everyone I was leaving high school to move to LA and be a tattooer.â€?

For the rest of the decade, Hiro traveled back and forth between Japan and Los Angeles. While apprenticing under Roberts at Spotlight Tattoo, Hiro wasn’t just learning about tattooing, but he was also picking up the English language and American culture that he’d always loved. “The first time I saw American tattooing, it was like something out of a movie to me,�

Hiro says. “In Japan, no one used machines or sat in chairs with music playing. It was completely different for me, and I thought it was so cool.�

Although Hiro still has respect for Japanese tattooing and the hand-poked traditions of his native country, it was never the style that attracted him. Hiro developed an American traditional style similar to that of Roberts, which complements his love for American and British rock & roll. From MotÜrhead to GBH, many of Hiro’s favorite bands began seeking out his work either

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Legendary record store Noise Noise Noise takes on a new form

BY NATE JACKSON

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ost local vinyl connoisseurs between 1991 and 2006 remember Noise Noise Noise, the revered Costa Mesa record store founded by Dave James (a.k.a. Dave Noise). Aside from being a great place to shoot the shit with the knowledgeable, scraggly haired owner behind the front counter, it brought James’ one-of-a-kind music taste to the most discriminating audiophiles.

Noise Noise Noise was a local gem throughout its 15-year history, though James is the first to admit it’s his fault it was shuttered in 2006. He spent years in the throes of a terrible heroin addiction that infected his business and led to his store getting evicted. This year would have marked the 25th anniversary of the store’s opening. It’s a loss that’s still hard for him to talk about.

But James has since turned his life around. In 2010, he got clean and reopened the store under the moniker Factory Records. Several years later, another bout of determination and the return of his lost love Lisa Amend inspired the couple to create Noise Noise Noise Records. “People are excited to have the name resurrected,” says James. “They’re happy to have it back and to have me back as well. I don’t like to pat myself on the

back, but I’m excited to breathe new life into it because I fucked it up good.”

James is huddled next to Amend in the small doorway of Factory, tucked away in a 17th Street strip mall surrounded by a barber, a bar and a store that sells discount Hawaiian shirts. He and Amend are wearing matching shirts, a signature of sorts. Often, they’re paired in some kind of couples theme—sometimes in homemade designs (the mock-Nirvana-smiley-face tees tweaked to resemble their twin pugs are amazing). Their complementary fashion sense oddly exemplifies their work as a team to build the label.

James, who once owned a label called Insta-Noise Records with local musician Lob Instagon, has countless ties with bands and distributors, as well as a bit of record industry know-how from decades of slinging vinyl. But Amend has some bigtime connections herself. As the former manager for the Legendary Pink Dots, a beloved industrial/experimental rock band who is indeed as legendary as their name professes, Amend was able to get the band on the Noise Noise Noise roster and will release a new four-track LP, A Scented Candle, which will be available at Factory Records and other mom-and-pop stores around the country.

Amend and James got together in the

early ’90s right after the birth of Noise Noise Noise. The two describe their relationship as “intense,” and the first time around, it ended bitterly. Amend moved back to her hometown of Colorado Springs and later got married; meanwhile, James battled his addiction and ran his store into the ground. The two hadn’t been in touch for more than two decades, but when James went to Riot Fest in Denver in 2013 to see the Replacements, he decided to make a side trip.

“Part of the 12-step stuff I do is making amends for shitty old behavior, so I took a night to go to Colorado Springs and make personal amends with her,” James says. As it turns out, old love dies hard.

Soon after their meeting, Amend divorced her husband and returned to James; the two then bought a house in Costa Mesa.

“There wasn’t really a cooling period. We were just all in,” Amend says. As proof of their commitment, the two got matching tattoos of pink flamingos on the outside edges of their left hands that come together to make a heart shape.

The flamingo fixation came during a drive around Colorado Springs after they got back together. While cruising past a mobile-home park, they spotted a turquoise trailer with plastic Virgin Marys and all kinds of gaudy lawn ornaments.

“We were like, ‘That’s fantastic; that’s where we’re headed,’” Amend says with a laugh. They went straight to a home-andgarden store and bought pink flamingos with the intention of sticking them on the front lawn of their new place together.

“It’s a symbol of us putting down our roots and being where we’re supposed to be.”

First came love, then came the label. “I never would’ve seen this coming,” Amend says, fighting the urge to tear up—something that, as a Pisces, she says she’s prone to do a lot. “But I was there at the beginning of Noise, so to see him getting to resurrect it is really emotional for me.”

James says the label’s not going to be genre-specific, though all of the bands they are planning to release so far utilize varying levels of sonic spaciness. In addition to the Legendary Pink Dots, they signed a Las Vegas prog rock band called the Universe. Knowing James’ and Amend’s adventurous tastes in music, Noise Noise Noise Records is sure to make for an interesting addition to OC’s sprawl of underground sound.

“I don’t think we’re gonna turn into Epitaph overnight,” James says. “If it gets hot, we’ll worry about that when the time comes. I imagine we’ll just be a cool little indie label putting out neat shit.”

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ow, my stories are sexually dangerous,” says “Fat Mike” Burkett of NOFX. “As younger punk rockers, shit was more dangerous. But while the other guys have calmed down, my life has gotten a lot crazier. I took care of my shit into my early 30s, then once shit was going smooth, I started fucking up.”

It’s those stories of danger—both sexual and regular—that make up NOFX’s new book, The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories. Considering the rarity of a successful punk band with a 33-year history and the personalities to match, Burkett and crew might be the only ones still coherent enough to tell stories about drinking piss— on the first page!—and shooting dope while still putting on a badass concert every night of their current book tour.

“We’ve talked about [putting out a book] for about 10 years,” Burkett says.

“We want to make a public record of our lives. We’ve all had fucked-up lives, and I think we’re the only ones who can tell those stories.”

Between that long-standing desire and Burkett reading Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, the Punk in Drublic legends decided it was time to pen their own tales. Not only is The Hepatitis Bathtub an opportunity for fans to hear NOFX’s stories from their own perspective, but it’s also a welcome look into the history of a band that once went as far as shutting out all press opportunities and interviews. They really can’t be blamed for not wanting to do the same interview over and over again—and their music sales and fan base have stayed ridiculously consistent over the decades.

“It’s really nice to talk about different stuff,” Burkett says. “We always used to

BY JOSH CHESLER get asked about Green Day and the Offspring [becoming popular], but now we get to promote our book. I would never tell anyone to go buy a NOFX record, but I’d tell them to go buy our book.”

As Burkett sees it, most NOFX fans will likely buy the book whether he tells them to or not. What the cynical front man is most excited about is getting those who don’t know the words to “Linoleum” or “Dinosaurs Will Die” to check out the tome as well.

“It’s gotten really good reviews so far,” Burkett says. “It’s not what people expect, but I’ve been asking people if they’d recommend buying the book to a friend, and everyone says they would. Mötley Crüe didn’t sell 750,000 copies of The Dirt because there are that many Mötley Crüe fans. They sold that many because people who don’t care about Mötley Crüe still want to read it.”

Rather than calling it a rags-to-riches tale, Burkett prefers “heroin to riches.”

Either way, The Hepatitis Bathtub shines a new light on a band that has been around far longer than many other punk rockers have even been alive. While some stories are what their die-hard fans will expect from them, much of the book will shock even those who have followed the band for 30 years.

“It’s the best and worst stories of our lives, and none of these stories has been told before,” Burkett says. “No one is going to look at us the same after they read this. It’s dark. They won’t just see us as a poppy skate-punk band from California anymore. They’ll see we’ve been through some shit on our way here.”

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emember when you were in high school and danced your butt off at all-ages clubs instead of puking your guts out at a house party? Now, underage clubbing is nearly nonexistent—especially after the recent closure of the legendary Hollywood youth and gay club, Arena. But fret not, youngsters, because Inovativ Events is reviving the all-ages scene every month at the Yost Theater in SanTana.

Having grown tired of being taken advantage of by money-hungry promoters in the electronic music scene, Isaac Flores, 19, joined forces with Ernie Chaparro, 24, and Garrett Duncan, 23, to form a production company providing all-ages, drug-free EDM parties in Orange County. With a social-media flier, word of mouth and even personally delivering tickets from LA to the IE, Inovativ garnered a large turnout and great vibes for its launch in February at the Yost—despite people warning Flores that all-ages events weren’t very profitable or popular.

The Inovativ crew knows the general public has a stigmatized perception of raves and EDM shows. “These kids are going to house parties doing drugs, possibly getting into fights with no security; their parents don’t know where they’re at,” Flores says. He believes offering youngsters a supervised party from 6 to 10 p.m. can deter kids from going to sketchy locations and help improve the negative reputation EDM currently holds.

“You’ve seen [raves] slowly move away from California and people like us are trying to keep it here,” says Duncan, who acts as stage manager.

“We need to bring out the good part about EDM and stop letting the negative shine through.”

Drug overdoses have become the new norm at EDM concerts—and Inovativ wants to change that. Flores even blacklisted someone from an event after hearing the person intended to sell drugs at the show. “[Other] promoters don’t care; they loved that kids would come and get fucked-

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The Inovativ guys value the community and don’t just want to capitalize off it. Flores remembers feeling especially agitated toward the “pay-to-play” system adopted by many venues and promoters. “I felt like a dollar sign to a lot of event-production companies,” he says. “If someone sold 70 tickets, they could headline, but you don’t even know if they’re good. What if everybody leaves? That just means you don’t care about people’s experiences.”

While Inovativ’s squeaky-clean approach may sound square to some, Duncan assures, “You don’t need to do negative stuff to have fun.” Trap, hip-hop, electro, house and dub-step mixes can be expected alongside balloons, inflatable balls, CO2 cannons and light shows. The Yost’s bar is also open for those who are of age.

Most important, the team just wants you to enjoy yourself. “Do me a favor and just meet five friends—just take down their numbers and make that connection,” Flores says. “This person might live in LA, and you may live in the Inland Empire, and the next show, you can come back and reconnect.”

Flores’ end goal for Inovativ Events is to create a unique and positive music community. “What we’re doing is different from anyone else,” he says. “That’s why we’re called Inovativ.”

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AL STEWART: 8 p.m. The Coach House, 33157 Camino

Capistrano, Ste. C, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 4968930; thecoachhouse.com.

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO & JAMES INTVELD:

7:30 p.m., $20-50. Don the Beachcomber, 16278 Pacific Coast Hwy., Huntington Beach, (562) 592-1321; donthebeachcomber.com.

THE ARCS: 8 p.m., $20-$30. The Glass House, 200 W. Second St., Pomona, (909) 865-3802; theglasshouse.us.

BLACK SABBITCH: 9 p.m., free. Diego’s Rock-n-Roll Bar & Eats, 220 E. Third St., Santa Ana, (888) 862-9573.

CRAWDADDIO’S: 7 p.m., free. Ralph Brennan’s Jazz Kitchen, 1590 S. Disneyland Dr., Anaheim, (714) 776-

3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

THE HULA GIRLS: 8 p.m., $8. The Karman Bar, 26022 Cape Dr., Laguna Niguel, (949) 582-5909; thekarmanbar.com.

KOMMUNITY FK: 10 p.m., $7. Que Sera, 1923 E. Seventh St., Long Beach, (562) 599-6170; thequesera.com.

MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER: 9 p.m., $25.

Constellation Room at the Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; constellationroom.com.

RICHIE RAMONE: 8 p.m., $12. Tiki Bar, 1700 Placentia Ave., Costa Mesa, (949) 270-6262; tikibaroc.com.

SEGA GENECIDE: 10 p.m. La Cave, 1695 Irvine Ave., Costa Mesa, (949) 646-7944; lacaverestaurant.com.

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ANYTHING BOX: 7 p.m., $10. Totally 80s Bar & Grille,

2512 W. Orangethorpe Ave., Fullerton, (714) 879-0108; totally80sbar.com.

CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD: 8 p.m., $15.

The Observatory, 3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

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4:30 p.m. Queen Mary Events Park, 1126 Queens Hwy., Long Beach, (562) 472-4562.

JOE BONAMASSA: 8 p.m., $85-$450. Terrace Theater, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, (562) 436-3636; longbeachcc.com.

MARE ADVERTENCIA LIRIKA: 6 p.m., $5. El Centro Cultural De Mexico, 313 N. Birch St., Santa Ana, (714) 543-0095; el-centro.org.

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BADBADNOTGOOD: 8 p.m., $15. The Observatory,

3503 S. Harbor Blvd., Santa Ana, (714) 957-0600; observatoryoc.com.

BEING AS AN OCEAN: 7 p.m., $14-$16. Chain Reaction, 1652 W. Lincoln Ave., Anaheim, (714) 635-6067; allages.com.

BILLY JOE SHAVER: 7 p.m., $20. The Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, Ste. C, San Juan Capistrano, (949) 496-8930; thecoachhouse.com.

JEFF ROSS: 2 p.m., $25. Beatnik Bandito Music Emporium, 417 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, (714) 8353313; beatnikbandito.com.

THE ORIGINALITES: 4 p.m., free. Hurricanes Bar & Grill, 200 Main St., Huntington Beach, (714) 374-0500; hurricanesbargrill.com.

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PROFESSOR COLOMBO: 9 p.m., $5. The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; wayfarercm.com.

THE QUEBE SISTERS: 8 p.m., $26-$36. Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Dr., Irvine, (949) 854-4646; thebarclay.org.

SNAKEHIPS AND LIDO: 9 p.m., $27.50. The Glass House, 200 W. Second St., Pomona, (909) 865-3802; theglasshouse.us.

SUGARAY RAYFORD: $29-$75. Huntington Beach Central Library Theater, 7111 Talbert Ave., Huntington Beach, (714) 356-1165; insurance-rocks.com.

BLACK MOUNTAIN: 9 p.m., $17. Constellation Room at

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ENJOY: 9 p.m., free. The Continental Room, 115 W. Santa Fe Ave., Fullerton, (714) 469-1879; facebook.com/ContinentalRoom.

KING SHELTER: 8 p.m., free. The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; wayfarercm.com.

SWIMM: 8 p.m., free. The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa, (949) 764-0039; wayfarercm.com.

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I’ve been aware of my emetophilia since a very young age and have always kept it private.

No need to tell me about the health risks—I’m aware—and I’ve only ever indulged this kink through videos online. The actual substance doesn’t turn me on; I have no desire to be puked on. For me, the fantasy involves being with someone as they begin to feel sick, and then taking care of them as they puke. It has something to do with the buildup and release. Who knows?

I’m married, and I told my husband about my kink exactly once, a few years ago. He wasn’t judgmental, but he never brought it up again. We have a great sex life otherwise, and I’ve always assumed I’d have satisfying, normal sex with my husband and masturbate to this kink in private.

But recently, on a whim, I posted a message on a kink site. A few weeks later, a guy reached out to say the description mirrored his own kink. We’ve been texting for a few weeks. He makes me feel like less of a freak, it’s been super-hot, and we’ve talked about meeting up and role-playing for each other. It makes me go crazy just to think about this. In light of the health risks—and the fact that I’m married—this would be a one-time thing. Do I have to tell my husband? I don’t want to have sex with this person; I just want to live out my fantasy for one night, which doesn’t necessarily involve getting naked. But obviously we will both get off, so there’s a definite sexual element. My husband and I have had threesomes, so he’s not a “strictly monogamous” guy, but it is new for me to strike out on my own. More than that, I’m mortified at the thought of him knowing about the kind of night I’m having, asking me about it later, etc. I would just rather him not know. But is that cheating?

A Lady Emetophile Meets Her Match The answer to your last question—is that cheating?— is obvious. If that wasn’t cheating, ALEMHM, or if you thought your husband wouldn’t regard it as cheating, you would be asking him for permission to meet up with your vomit buddy (VB). So let’s just run with the assumption that getting together with your VB would constitute infidelity, if the low-grade, nonpenetrative, not-for-everyone kind.

So do you have to tell your husband? You could tell your husband—and lots of people will insist you must tell your husband—but I’m sitting in this Starbucks on Lex and 78th, wondering if your husband would rather not be told.

You shared your kink with your husband once, and he never brought it up again. We can reasonably assume your husband isn’t interested in discussing, much less indulging, this very particular sexual interest of yours. Another reasonable assumption: Your kink may not be something your husband wants to think about. The awareness of your kink, to use Emily “Dear Prudence Emeritus” Yoffe’s phrase, could be a libido killer for him. If your husband worked at stuffing your disclosure down the memory hole because it interferes with his ability to connect with you sexually, asking permission to spend an evening with your VB could come as an unwelcome reminder.

So you could make—as I’ve just made—an argument for sparing your husband the reminder, as well as sparing yourself the discomfort, by not telling and/or asking him, and then discreetly meeting up with your VB just this once. (The counterargument is also easily made: He never brought it up again because he picked up on your shame, he didn’t want to distress you, etc.) But if you decide to meet your VB, ALEMHM, weigh the risks (what happens if you get caught?) against the rewards (scratching this off

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I find myself in the most boring of straight-whitegirl pickles: My boyfriend is dragging his feet on proposing. I’m 29, and he’s 31. We’ve been dating for three years. Things are great. We talk about our future a lot—buying a house, vacations, blah blah blah. Lack of proposal aside, we’re solid.

But I would hate to waste another year in this city for this guy when I could have been working toward tenure somewhere else. (I’m in academia.) I’ve tried bringing this up to him several times with no concrete results.

Really Into Not Going Solo Propose to him, RINGS. Don’t informally propose a formal proposal—don’t ask him to ask you to marry him—but go get a ring (for him) and ask him to marry you (for fuck’s sake). You have the power to pop the question and call it at the same time. Good luck; I hope he says yes.

I met a man two and a half years ago on Tinder. Our relationship was built on lies from the start. I lied to him about having a child so I could put a wedge between us. I came clean after we slept together a few times—the most mind-blowing sex I’ve ever had—because I was afraid he might want to meet my made-up child. I caught feelings. But Tinder man is married and lives in France. I see him only three times a year. Fast-forward to now. He pursues other people. Women throw themselves at him. We were at the mall, and he picked up a girl while I was getting my hair done. He’s not my boyfriend. He hurts me. I am terrified of losing him. Here comes the tricky part: My doctor found a tumor on my lymph nodes. I go in for tests on Friday. I’m ready to pick out my coffin at this point. I contacted my lover’s exwife and asked why they divorced, and she said it was because he cheated all the time. I know what he’s capable of. I don’t want to change him. I love him. I go insane when we don’t talk. He told me he doesn’t respect me any more than he respects his current wife. I’m so scared.

Help Me Please Um . . . you won’t find the help you need wedged between escort ads at the back of a weekly newspaper, HMP, or on a website underneath pop-up ads for vaporizers. You need a therapist, someone who can help you work through legitimate-but-possibly-premature fears for your health (let’s wait for those test results to come back before we pick out your coffin, okay?) and your emotional dependence on a man who isn’t your boyfriend, isn’t your husband, isn’t around much, and has told you he doesn’t respect you. He’s not the kind of guy who’s going to come through for you during a health crisis—that guy couldn’t come through for you during a haircut.

Don’t get me wrong: I sleep with men, I understand the sexual appeal of a man who treats you like shit, I’m a huge Peggy Lee fan (youtube.com/ watch?v=QBsEH9q63Uk). But you can’t depend on a guy like that at a time like this. If it turns out you’re seriously ill, HMP, you need to lean on family and friends, join a support group, buy one of those vaporizers, and concentrate on getting healthy. And take comfort: If/ when your health is restored, there are plenty of shitty, selfish, sadistic guys on the planet who’ll treat you badly, cheat on you flagrantly and—not coincidentally—get you off spectacularly.

I’m sorry you may be ill, HMP, and I’m sorry you’re scared. Best wishes for a speedy physical, emotional and sexual recovery.

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