hanging out with Stacy Clausen, who co-stars with Joe Bird in the deeply unsettling new horror film Leviticus, after a Film Independent screening & Q&A at the Harmony Gold Theatre Monday night...There’s an astonishing beauty in the flames of this rebuttal of ancient codes of morality that left no room for grace, words which also describe one of the central themes of my debut memoir Killing Justice...

POLAR From To Best or Bust Traumatized Truth-Teller Rebelliously Rising Intelligent or Insane Insanely Intelligent Pure or Profane Profanely Pure Open or Odd Openly Odd Loyal or Liberated

hanging out with Destin Yori Daniel Cretton, director of the wonderful new Marvel series Wonder Man, after Wednesday night's screening at Vidiots. DYDC directed 3 of my fave indie films, Short Term 12, The Glass Castle, & Just Mercy, & is truly an "auteur" now entrusted with making Marvel movies & series, as he said in the Q&A that he's continuing to work with many of the same team with whom he made his debut feature I Am Not A Hipster for just $65k, & that sense of community

hanging out with entrepeneur extraordinaire Rose Rosenfeld at the Blacklune Expo tonight at the Fairmont Breakers in Long Beach, after she bought a copy of my debut memoir Killing Justice

For Nietzsche, the tragedy is not failure. It is conformity. He said people would rather be wrong with the crowd than right alone. Authenticity requires solitude, and solitude requires courage most never cultivate— Friedrich Nietzsche Failure teaches, but conformity erases. To follow the crowd is to abandon yourself. Authenticity is lonely, but it is the only path to truth. Courage is not in victory, but in standing alone. Fortunately for me, I was gifted ten months of solitu

YAY! My 41st Amazon customer review for my debut memoir Killing Justice! Just 9+ to go until Amazon considers me a real writer, lol...

hanging out with Emmy Award-winning actress Tatiana Maslany, after a Film Independent screening of the twistedly thrilling darkly comic whodunit of a new series she stars in "Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed"...LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this show, as Tatiana's character Paula's captivating adventures spring from her being consumed by chaos (which was the subtitle for the pre-prison chapters in my debut memoir Killing Justice), for while the chaos lead to my going to prison for my friend's

hanging out with writer/director Joe Burke & writer/director and co-writer/actor Oliver Cooper of the wonderful new film Burt...LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this micro-indie with a huge heart, which tells a tender, stirring story of belated connection, which is also a central theme of both my debut memoir Killing Justice, and my upcoming memoir Finding Heart ...GO SEE IT when it opens in theaters on June 16th..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrBGlCBI0HQ

Hanging out with Kelly Marie Tran, who plays FBI agent Emily in the wildly entertaining new crime thriller Forge, currently playing in LA & New York, but opening wide this coming weekend...LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this wildly entertaining new crime thriller, featuring a trio of amazing Asian American actors in Andie Ju, Kelly Marie Tran & Brandon Soo Hoo, as it's as much a study in self-deception as it is a thriller about more criminal acts of deceit, as is my debut memoir Killing...

celebrating Killing Justice's 2nd birthday with his new adoptive mom Tashia after an IMAX screening of the new Mandalorian and Grogu movie at AMC Century City

Happy 2nd Birthday to my firstborn child, Killing Justice! Thanks for sharing a birthday with me.

Just finished binge watching this masterpiece of a series by Riz Ahmed, followed by a great Q&A, courtesy of the LA County Museum of Art, which I LOVED, as its a darkly comic exploration of the struggle between being yourself and belonging, which lies at the heart of both immigrant and adoptive and foster trauma, and so also lies at the heart of Killing Justice.

DeposingADictator Diaries Day 75/dj Derek's Heavenly rave Playlist Day 2165/LA Lockdown Diaries Day 2205(image: hanging out with Walter Thompson-Hernández, who wrote and directed the wonderful new film If I Go, Will They Miss Me, which features a complicated father-son relationship, not unlike the complicated mother-son relationship at the heart of my debut memoir Killing Justice, after Thursday night's Film Independent screening)...to be continued...

DeposingADictator Diaries Day 74a/DJ Derek's Heavenly RavePlaylist Day 2164a/LA Lockdown Diaries Day 2204a(image: hanging out with Bodhi Dell, who stars in the wonderful new film If I Go, Will They Miss Me, which features a complicated father-son relationship, not unlike the complicated mother-son relationship at the heart of my debut memoir Killing Justice, after last night's Film Independent screening)...to be continued...https://mubi.com/en/films/if-i-go-will-they-miss-me-

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY UP IN HEAVEN, MOMADELE! MISSING YOU MADLY...(& TO WHOM MY 2ND MEMOIR, FINDING HEART, WILL BE DEDICATED)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, MOM! (2 WHOM MY 1ST MEMOIR, KILLING JUSTICE, WAS CO-DEDICATED TO, ALONG WITH POPS, ALSO PICTURED HERE)...

hanging out with the luminous Havana Rose Liu, after watching her deeply moving performance in the wonderful crime thriller Tuner, courtesy of Film Independent, at the London West Hollywood earlier tonight, after offering her a role in our upcoming film, inspired by my debut memoir Killing Justice

hanging out with my dear friend Daria Meyer after she bought a copy of my debut memoir Killing Justice recently

hanging out with Jonathan Glatzer, creator of the darkly comic, deeply moving tech industry satire The Audacity, an Emmy-winning writer who previously worked on “Succession” and “Better Call Saul”, after I had a chance to see the series premiere episode at The London West Hollywood yesterday, followed by a Q&A with Jonathan Glatzer, as well as two of its lead actors, Billy Magnussen and Simon Helberg...I especially loved the 3 children who are featured in the show, as each of

hanging out with my friend & fellow prison memoirist Shaka Senghor at the LA Times Book Festival recently