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Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics: Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead 10/16/09 Fri 10/16, 10:25 PM Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics: Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead 10/16/09 Fri 10/16, 10:25 PM SEARCH BLOG FLAG BLOG Next Blog» DAILY DIGEST BY EMAIL WHISTLEBLOWER HOTLINE: (213) 785-6098 [email protected] MAYORSAM WEB ADVERTISEMENT SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2009 3 CA Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk LADWP 1-800-342- 53... Rocker, Is Dead PREVIOUS POSTS Los Angeles Utilities. Chris Essel Spins her "No- All LA Util Listed. Show" on KRLA's Kevin Ja... LADWP 1-800-342- And Now Back to our 53...Los An Regularly Scheduled www.utilitieslosangeles.com Programmin... The "Old Gray Hag On Spring Street", Women's Up fo... The Usual Suspects Caption this...................... 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Mayor Sam's Mayor Bradley WillieBrown.com is for Postage Stamp Petition sale. by BlogRolling The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his www.williebrown.com former wife. HOT BLOGS Zuma Dogg As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, an elite Central City East private school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Mr. Franklin Avenue Carroll led a chaotic life that combined sports, drugs and http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-poet-and-punk-rocker-is.html Page 1 of 48 Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics: Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead 10/16/09 Fri 10/16, 10:25 PM Spyware Virus Carroll led a chaotic life that combined sports, drugs and WitnessLA.com Remover poetry. 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"councilman last seen as jose huizar" NEIGHBORHOOD BLOGS September 13, 2009 6:36 PM "councilman last seen as jose Atwater Village Newbie huizar" l.a. now View From A Loft "councilman last seen Downtown NoHo speaking as jose huizar" Krispy said: Video Louis-ST NoHo "dream with me" To put Jim Carroll in the same league as Rimbaud and Burroughs Silver Lake Davine "la antonia times" requires a tremendous stretch. I'm sorry to hear that he's passed Angelenic "lil o tonio" yell leader watch away so young, but let's be honest. The man's talents were severely Westchester Parents "lil o'tonio" yell leader watch limited at best. SFV Real Estate Blog "mechista" September 13, 2009 7:28 PM Westside Bikeside "mayor vetovillar" Griffith Park, Interrupted "nunez act" Beckford Avenue School "notes on the election Parents Blog scorecard" john a. bailo said: Here In Van Nuys "old gray hag on spring street" These are the people who....aaarrrggghhh! Mayor Tina Del Rio of the "pensiongate 09" September 13, 2009 8:23 PM City of Commerce "peoples enclave of mt. washington "troll for dough a-thon" MEDIA "the ones" Anonymous said: John and Ken "w." Joe, since you enjoy cracking the whipe to ensure that people stay Doug McIntyre "wwg" on topic, maybe you can tell us how this guy dying relates to "The Marc "Mr. K" Germain "obama's 95% illusion" Home of Los Angeles Politics"? Kevin James "the next president of the Coast to Coast AM united states" http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-poet-and-punk-rocker-is.html Page 2 of 48 Mayor Sam's Sister City - Home of Los Angeles Politics: Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead 10/16/09 Fri 10/16, 10:25 PM Coast to Coast AM united states" I can't find a single connection. Bill Handel $400 million computers Los Angeles Daily News $460 mil lausd budget cuts Maybe you can enlighten us, Mr. Stay on Topic! Fishwrap of Record $700 million budget deficit September 13, 2009 11:28 PM LA Weekly 100 days Los Angeles Downtown News 11% Drudge 110 freeway California Media Guide 15 Michael Higby said: Glendale News-Press 1776 Sorry that he died but no-one cares. Unless you have his position on Long Beach Press-Telegram 1933 griffith park fire the DWP pipe breaks. Anyway this is a guy who sold blow jobs in the Los Angeles La Opinion 1956 bathroom in Times Square station. Los Angeles Metropolitan 1964 News-Enterprise 1978 Well maybe Larry Craig might be interested. Ontario Inland Valley Daily 1988 September 13, 2009 11:55 PM Bulletin 1st amendment Orange County Register 2005 mayoral election Palmdale Antelope Valley 2008 Press 2008 election conference Dope Fiend Poker said: Pasadena Star-News 2008 presidential election In 1978 I lived at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. One afternoon I Riverside Press-Enterprise heard a knock on my door. When I opened it there stood a tall, 2008 economic stimululs Sacramento Bee check drugged out looking, skinny guy about my age with stringy red hair. Santa Clarita Signal 2008 election With him were two other guys that were larger and even scarier Torrance Daily Breeze 2009 looking than him. West Covina San Gabriel 2009 general election With a fast talking New York accent and a desperate tone the red Valley Tribune 2009 mayoral election headed one held up an LP and blasted into this rapid fire sales pitch: Whittier Daily News 2009 presidential inauguration "Listen, I know you don't know me but my name is Jim Carroll and I KABC 7 2009 primary election have a band called The Jim Carroll Band and I am on Rolling Stones KCBS 2 2009-2010 city budget Records and Tapes. I have a single coming out next month called KTTV 11 2010 attorney general's race "People Who Died". I just this minute got back from England and KCAL 9 2010 census what I have here in my hand is a copy of the new Rolling Stones KMEX 34 2012 presidential election album called "Some Girls". This THE ONLY COPY THAT EXISTS IN THE KNBC 4 2oo8 presidential campaign UNITED STATES. I haven't even heard it. Nobody has heard it, not one KCET 28 311 single person in the U.S. has heard it, but YOU can be the first. My KCOP 13 32 congressional district only question to you is: DO YOU HAVE A STEREO?" KTLA 5 420 Now wait a second, yes I had a stereo, a very nice one as a matter of Daily Bruin 45th assembly district central fact. More importantly I also had a fair amount of drugs in my room Daily Forty-Niner committee that took a whole day of hustling to get and I wasn't about to let this Daily Sundial 46th assembly district trio of losers bust into my room and take my shit. The album did look Daily Trojan 4th estate authentic though with the Rolling Stones logo and the red-head’s Los Angeles Business Journal 4th of july story had a ring of authenticity so I let them in. Los Angeles Independent 50 cent As everyone knows the first song on the album is "Miss You" which San Fernando Valley 60 minutes Business Journal begins that opening line "nah nah nah nanana" in falsetto. We all had 7-11 Al Rantel a hard time figuring out if I had the turntable set at the right speed 7-14-08 Larry Elder but of course I did.
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