When we fled the Big Bagel we thought we’d heard the last of that pushy-shovey Queens accent, seen the last of those horrible gilt buildings but no, Donald Trump got souped up enough to surface as a figure in national politics. So we really enjoy this hilarious take down of Trump in Vanity Fair  which brings to mind the very interesting style of Gary Oldman’s Dracula.

Buddy Hickerson, Cartoonist. Profiled in our column on the economy here

So that we can focus on the words here, we’ve dropped LegmanPhoto 

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We’ve been busy with our new project, producing news features and reporting from the streets on the Truthdig Radio show streaming live and archived at KPFK and today at 2:00pm Pacific Time we’re visiting The Green Jello house. Does the band name resonate? Kind of a Spinal Tap reaction for most as a lot remember their MTV video “The Three Little Pigs” but many wonder where are they now? The Legman found them so tune in and hear us interview Fishbone, all at the grooviest bastion of bohemian living remaining in Los Angeles.

 Michael Moore can babble about Wisconsin being “a little bit Egypt” claiming that state ground zero for revolt against the unequal distribution of wealth in America, but the argument for insurrection was first touched of in Los Angeles.

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Tired of being broke-ass broke, perhaps the time has come to adopt the posture of the junkie in joining the New Economy? Getting on smack we could nod out all day evading the talking-head-news-chatter about the “second year of the recovery” and no doubt we’d become more resourceful in generating revenue. Back in the day Alphabet City junkies formed a damn whirlwind of an economic force, turning way creative to come up with dope money. We sorely miss the bend-over-bazzar on St. Marx and the fiends who were our resource for comics, records, bike parts, tools and outerwear.

Finally a moment to wrap up the shit year that’s past. While we hit bottom, barely scraped by with paying the bills,  LegmanLA killed it in our first year up with world around news picked up by Huffington, LAOBserved and with an inquiry of ours that launched a column on Truthdig.com. We’re starting the year with another exclusive LA crime drama that originated on this blog and got picked up by Main Stream Media, the hipsters vs. Mongols outlaw biker shooting at The Echo.

We’ve been called many things but this rant from a Craigslist Wizard takes the cake. As we scramble for rent money, an ad for a “great writer” offering “excellent pay” baited us, but ever skeptical of anonymous nuts behind curtains we didn’t fire off a resume rather questioned the poster’s intent, earning this doozy of a response: “Your email gave us the idea that you are either a fake or arrogant. Show us that you are neither.” More kooky sentence structure, all-caps advice and your chance to reach out for some after the jump.

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Realizing a grander vision of story lines we’ve developed here, Legman has moved on up to a big blog with our economic reportage, our notion of Bukowski being a keen observer of the Great Depression, and gotten recognition for our notes on the citizenry of the LA megalopolis.