The El Segundo city council has killed a plan to name a library room after Jack London because, "Quite frankly, he was a world-renowned Communist," according to a press release put out last week by Rodger Jacobs. Amusing. In Berlin we'd call that Ostalgie. In El Segundo it seems to just mean being an old fart. Now they're casting around for some novel or writer with an El Segundo connection. They're welcome to name the room after me, if they want. I'm not a Communist, and Too Much of Nothing has a pretty good Dockweiler scene.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
12:42 PM
