Tag: Monterey
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Thoughts on Richard Brautigan’s “A Confederate General in Big Sur”
Read More →: Thoughts on Richard Brautigan’s “A Confederate General in Big Sur”“There was a ship going someplace. It was a Norwegian ship. Perhaps it was going back to Norway, carrying the hides of 163 cable cars, as part of the world commerce deal. Ah, trade: one country exchanging goods with another country, just like in grade school. They traded a rainy spring day in Oslo for…
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Mordecai of Monterey re-released
Read More →: Mordecai of Monterey re-releasedIn August 2024 Mordecai of Monterey was re-released and is available in Kindle and paperback on Amazon. Mordecai of Monterey is a comic novel set in 1973, during the height of the Watergate scandale. From the landscape that inspired Cannery Row, the hero Mordecai discovers that he has been gifted with melanoia – the opposite of paranoia.…
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What About the New Cover to the Mordecai of Monterey?
Read More →: What About the New Cover to the Mordecai of Monterey?It’s coming up to the fifth year anniversary of Keith Kumasen Abbott’s death. In honor of my father I have re-released his comic novel Mordecai of Monterey. Working with a friend, the new cover is a reflection of the original cover. Water was a significant theme in my father’s later art work. His ashes were…
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Who Was The Widow Lazarchuk?
Read More →: Who Was The Widow Lazarchuk?In Keith Kumasen Abbott’s comic novel Mordecai of Monterey a character by the name of the Widow Lazarchuk is presented. Knowing that Keith often inserted his friends into his novels, I looked up the name Lazarchuk and came to the conclusion that the Widow Lazarchuk was a bit of a “wink” towards the punk rock…
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Where are Keith Kumasen Abbott’s friends?
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Searching for Keith Kumasen Abbott in the Artic Circle?
Read More →: Searching for Keith Kumasen Abbott in the Artic Circle?This is my summer project — the novel that is — but I suspect that the missing materials will take longer than a summer to find.