J Michael Walker

artist, author, left-handed historian.

[J Michael Walker @jmichaelwalker]

Newest piece in my "Pages from a Bahia Diary" series - "Unintended Consequences" - confronts (ongoing) colonial past

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@JuddApatow Shepherd's a jerk, he came to our college in 70-71. Backstage, in leather jack and cigs, he claims Dylan's a fake, it's all an act, the stories he cd tell, as the crowd faded away, no one believing a word of it

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@MusicREDEF @Playboy ii / He stood there in his black leather jacket, smoking cigarettes, and assuring us all that Dylan was a fake, that it was all an act. Dylan doesn't even talk like that off-stage, Shepherd said. "The stories I could tell you" he said, as the crowd faded away....

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@MusicREDEF @Playboy what an overblown jerk Shepherd was. I was a student at a small town college in Oklahoma in 1970-71 and someone in charge of such things hired him to come speak/perform. Afterwards, he held forth, dropping names.

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@anniecorreal We wish them buena suerte! Ojala y les vaya bien.... <3

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@LAObserved ... So says he who recklessly and, need it be said, falsely claims hordes of terrorist Muslims are among the 1000's of Latin American "invaders", funded by Democrats and their (of course Jewish) funders.... No one is more inaccurate or fraudulent than the bum in the White House)

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@KyleJGlen @NumbersMuncher Only this egotistical monster could make 9/11 about himself and his possessions....

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@hausofriya Slap!

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@ladailynews #WhiteSupremacist in action...

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@NBCNews This man either knows nothing about the real world or, just as likely, he's imprevious to whether he tells the truth or lies....

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@AirTalk @KPCC Part 2: "All the Saints of the City of the Angels," my 8-yr project researching and portraying the 103 streets named for saints in LA, connecting street and saint stories to understand LA. Became a solo show at @TheAutry and an award-winning book for @heydaybooks . Thomas Guide!!

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@AirTalk @KPCC Sorry I'm late, but Huge Impact on my career! Early 2000 I needed to locate an LA street beginning with the letter "S," instead became distracted by the columns of streets beginning with Saint, San and Santa. "All these saints in Los Angeles," I said, which quickly became -

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@caillemillner I'd So love a late-nite radio show hosted by Q, just playing lp's and dishing, all thru the hours....

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@pronounced_ing @Bksandauthors "You must not know a lot of Asian moms" could be a cool t-shirt (unless it already is)

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@SantaMonicaMtns Sorry I didn't take a photo of her, but there's a beauty here in Debs Park, northeast LA....

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@politiCOHEN_ It's horrendous and it's unending (so far!) and I believe you....

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@stevecuozzo So sez some clueless East Coast dude sitting in a hotel in Beverly Hills. Next visit, Come visit LA, why don't you?

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Cape Town lesson: The world is filled with people of great promise, lacking only a nudge, 2 tools, and a how-to. https://t.co/JnM4vZno0S

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Learn the story behind "The Healing Body Heals the Soul" and help me get to South Africa!. @indiegogo https://t.co/fdkHkHJomK

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I’m pleased to announce that a painting from my All the Saints of the City of the Angels series is included in... http://t.co/GPZv6yzsqm

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An essay I was commissioned to write and illustrate, based on All the Saints, for the great Zocalo website -... http://t.co/7xviUeVWcW