Series record for selected readings by Michael Ventura of articles he wrote for the L.A. Weekly.
r.1. My solution to everything : 3/16/90 ; Timelessness I : 6/6/90 ; Timelessness II : 6/20/90 ; The Flag is mine : 6/29/90 ; Take back the right : 4/6/90 ; Clues for Stevie : 9/7/90 (50 min.) -- r.2. Someone is stealing your life : 1/26/90 ; The Toy from hell : 11/90 ; Course in sanity : 5/30/90 ; Men who sleep with 2 bodies : 2/3/90 ; Memories of a healer : 10/5/90 (62 min.) -- r.3. In defense of alcohol : calling into question current treatment for alcoholism that denies the utility of the altered state ; What does your fitness fit? : 50 unfit thoughts which poke fun at the extremes of exercise programs and encourages listeners to return to age old exercises (48 min.) -- r.4. Talking American I : 2/11/90 ; Talking American II : 16/11/90 ; What God on whose side : 11/4/90 ; Age of endarkenment I : 30/11/90 ; Age of endarkenment II : 14/12/90 (65 min.) -- r.5. Standing at the wall : 29/3/91 ; A Stillness of leaves : 12/4/91 ; A Dance among the ruins : 3/5/91 ; Explanation of a wall : 1/2/91 ; Homage to Hugo and Antonio : 13/4/91 (63 min.) -- r.6. Taking the walk that took me : 3/11/86 ; Ghost of electricity : 31/5/91 ; The Stuff of dreams : 6/3/87 ; Totalitarian drift : 9/8/91 ; A Touch of anarchy : 17/11/89 (61 min.) -- r.7. The Kitty cat of the mind : 26/7/91 ; Notes on a blind spot : 23/8/91 ; Private language : 22/5/87 ; What about the watcher : 6/9/91 ; 100 years of valleytude : 30/6/89 (62 min.) -- r.8. We are stories telling stories : 10/5/85 ; A Grand illusion : a tribute to Los Angeles ; The Art of Gena Rowlands : 14/6/91 ; The Ability of not knowing : 17/5/91 ; Writing on the wild side : a tribute to Nelson Algrin : 5/6/81 (56 min.) -- r.9. The Disappearance of George Orwell : 11/22/91 ; George Orwell : lost soul, 11/22/91 ; The Winds dominion : 11/8/91 ; The Queen of Cups : 10/18/91 (51 min.) -- r.10. Hunting the hunter : 15/2/91 ; In the Land of Uz : 13/12/91 ; An Unmarked door spring : 1990 ; Cages of light : 4/10/91 ; Swastika in the snow : 1/84 (60 min.) -- r.11. Possessed by war : 18/1/91 ; Demonstrate it : 25/1/91 ; Ghost of Randolph Bourne : 11/1/91 ; Blood and sand : 17/8/90 (60 min.).