Posts Tagged as ‘Keith Black’

September 8, 2009

Top Fuel Wormhole: The “Wild Bill” Alexander Interview

THE CRASH, BURN AND RESURRECTION OF A WORKING CLASS HERO
The “Wild Bill” Alexander Interview
by Cole Coonce

This story is one of growth, transformation and alchemy as metaphor. Defined as “a medieval chemical philosophy having as its asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold,” the process of alchemy involves the charring of metal, [...]

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March 3, 2009

LIGHTS! CAMERA! NITRO!

(PUBLISHERS NOTE: THIS STORY TO BE INCLUDED IN VOLUME 2 OF THE COLE COONCE DRAG STRIP READER)

by Cole Coonce

Zukovic and I were kickin’ it in some rather trendoid hipster coffee klatch at Melbourne and Vermont in East Hollywood, drinking espresso and discussing the troubles with the age we live in. Zukovic is a failed [...]

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February 27, 2009

THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EXPLODING INEVITABLE

THE EPIC SAGA OF THE SURFERS

There is a philosophy of the world that states that there is a common realization about the interconnectivity of all things physical and spiritual—that there is a unity at a profound level—and that our actions have somewhat infinite repercussions. This discipline is known as Zen. In the mid-1960s, it was [...]

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