My Life As an Exquisite Corpse

A native Angeleno dissects himself before your very eyes.

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Luci Gutiérrez illustration for The New Yorker

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Edward Gorey illustration for Robert Aickman's short story "The Visiting Star".

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Illustration by Edward Gorey for the short story "The Man Who Collected Poe" by Robert Bloch

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A Victorian home in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles.

Photo by JWR

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Scanning some more old flyers from the LA club scene back in the day.

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One of the highlights of the Black Dahlia exhibit at the Los Angeles Police Museum earlier this year was the never-before-seen photos of Elizabeth Short on display.

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In the early 1990's, the Natural Fudge Cafe was a good place in Los Angeles to see punk acts play. Here's a flyer I have for Chief Drinkalot's appearance there.

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Still have this napkin saved from a birthday party given for me as a little kid! The movie had just been released.

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Flyer from 1992

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1992 or 1993 - Flyer for Shadow Project in-store signing in Fullerton, CA.

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Get a load of that t-shirt!

August 1951, Los Angeles - Juvenile gang members of the so-called "Jack's Gang" interrogated by officers.

Source: USC Digital Library

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1992 flyer for a one-off industrial music club in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles. The location was a rehearsal studio called Art's Building, Jr. Featuring a music performance by The Crucifying Girl Jesus.

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Everyone should look so good when their apartment is bombed.

Bomb goes off in an apartment at 1034 1/2 Hilldale Avenue, 24 June 1958. Dorothy Adamson -- 28 years old -- was eating in a nearby cafe when the bomb went off.

Sources: lapl.org and USC Digital Library

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This guy's name is Tenaga Zuchi Zou and you can meet him when crossing a bridge over the Miyagawa River in Takayama, Japan.

Photo by JWR

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A Victorian house in Pasadena, Calif. Photo by JWR.

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From 1991 or 1992...