CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POSTING Monday Morning Group Francine Rodriguez francinerodriguez@author.com I think it was some time in 1996, at the waning end of the surge in the crack epidemic in South Central. It was the point where rehabs had opened their doors up and down the coast. Some of the doors opened onto pastoral seaside hideaways, or non-descript […]
|by Francine Rodriguez Today the crack smokers are getting older. Getting high in the open air of South Central is not a common sight anymore, and the behaviors that sometimes accompany it have for the most part, gone underground. I’ve been carrying this memory around for all these years. So, here goes: I think it was some time […]
There’s Equality in Sports Injury I happened to come across a study yesterday. It was a study of the human brains of a number of young men who had all died before age thirty-two. Scientists kept the brains in large freezers especially for this type of testing. Half of the stored brains belonged to young men who took their own […]
Now that I’m officially “old as dirt,” and still above-ground to watch it all, I keep coming across spectacles that make me stop and stare and try to shake the cobwebs out of my brain. So, let me explain, prior to writing my prior two novels, I generally stayed the hell away from technology with the exception of my […]
Reviewed By: Viga Boland Review Rating: 5 Stars – Congratulations on your 5-star review! Reviewed By Viga Boland for Readers’ Favorite If you’re going to write a long fiction crime thriller, you’d better make sure of three things: you have a really great plot, gripping characters, and most important of all, the skill to create a true page-turner. Well, Francine Rodriguez […]
For several months friends kept telling me to watch Pose, a television show that centers on the drag ball culture in New York during the eighties. Most of the people who recommended it told me it was a lot like Paris Is Burning, a 1991 documentary that highlighted gay and transgender contestants most often black, and Latino, as they competed […]
Why Pose Is Such An Important Television Breakthrough For several months friends kept telling me to watch Pose, a television show that centers on the drag ball culture in New York during the eighties. Most of the people who recommended it told me it was a lot like Paris Is Burning, a 1991 documentary that highlighted gay and […]