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Keith Plocek @keithplocek.com · 29/09/2026
It’s been too hot for my long walks down Los Angeles streets, so I hung out at the mall instead
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11 Hours at the Mall
No third spaces anymore?
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Tar @tar.land · 28/09/2026
Juggalo Riot
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Getting down with the clown at Riot Fest Photos by Craig Cummins for Tar.Land #juggalo #juggalofamily #insaneclownposseicp
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Tar @tar.land · 25/09/2026
Social Distortion's Mike Ness is a punk rock silver fox
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Punk Rock Silver Fox
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Tar @tar.land · 25/09/2026
Let there be mud.
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Riot Fest 2026: Saturday and Sunday in Photos
On the second and third day, Riot Fest did not rest
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Tar @tar.land · 23/09/2026
Los Angeles deserves a Riot Fest
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LA Needs a Massive Punk Festival
Where's the big LA punk festival?
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Tar @tar.land · 22/09/2026
Before the mud, there was rock
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Riot Fest 2026 in Photos
The first day brought Iggy Pop, Bratmobile, Teen Mortgage, Bayside, Slick Rick, Gwar and Rise Against to Douglass Park
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Tar @tar.land · 21/09/2026
Pity the car floor mats
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Rain at Riot Fest is just part of the fun
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Tar @tar.land · 19/09/2026
Will AI destroy humanity before GWAR gets the chance?
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GWAR Hates AI
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Tar @tar.land · 15/09/2026
Some people see the LA River and think of Grease or Terminator 2. Others are reminded of Jackass.
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The Jackass Guide to LA
Nothing shows the streets of Los Angeles as they really are quite like Jackass
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Tar @tar.land · 08/09/2026
Do you have memories of Taix in Echo Park? An art show at Gallery Luisotti features work from six contemporary artists, all focused on the end of the restaurant’s 99-year history.
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Big Taix
Sometimes grief will surprise you
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Tar @tar.land · 03/09/2026
This week is your last chance to check out the Laura Aguilar show at the Huntington
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Laura Aguilar Is Out There
There is a landscape. It is the desert. Not the sandy desert. Rocks. I see cracks and shapes. I see boulders. One of them is not a boulder. It is a human. A nude human. A nude human with a crack.…
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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Relatedly: Your regular reminder that Waymo - unlike human drivers! - does not pay a fine in CA when it commits a moving violation!
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Tar @tar.land · 01/09/2026
We channeled our inner @davidzipper.bsky.social and wrote about antisocial autonomous vehicles
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Honking at Waymos
The future is not written, and don't let anyone hoping to profit tell you otherwise
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Tar @tar.land · 25/08/2026
We chatted with the artist painting those Trump piggies on the Santa Monica Freeway
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Trump Pigs on the 10 Freeway
Like many folks, I sank into a hole two Novembers ago. I’m not saying I was hiding in that hole, but I slid far enough down in there that I might as well have been. Eventually I began climbing back…
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Tar @tar.land · 22/08/2026
Sunday is your last chance to check out the Semiotext(e) bookshelf residency at ICA LA
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Linguistic Turning
I can’t stop reading. That’s not meant to be a boast about bibliophagy. No, I can go weeks without cracking a book. What I mean is, if I see words, especially words in Roman script, I am going to see…
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Tar @tar.land · 18/08/2026
Where did Santa Monica cursive come from? Why did Weldon J. Fulton use it on so many of his buildings?
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Santa Monica Cursive
It loops, because it’s cursive and that’s what cursive does, but it doesn’t stay between the lines, instead climbing up, up to the end of the word. It’s Santa Monica cursive, and you can see it on the...
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Tar @tar.land · 15/08/2026
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