May 2016

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Joaquin Miller had a poets colony in the Oakland. Japanese Poets came to live here. One of them was  Yonejiro Noguchi. I just discovered a movie was made about the mother of Yone’s son, who was the famous sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, who had a famous half-sister, Ailes Gilmore. She was…

My semi-autobiographical novel ‘The Gideon Computer’ begins at the Golden West Saloon in downtown Oakland where Bill gets drunk and passes out. He comes to standing mid-span on the Golden Gate bridge looking at the setting sun. There is a ceremony about dropping the bomb on Hiroshima. This novel is about the Guilt Code we…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: ? “They became “Honorary Aryans,” apart from other Asians and now western in many ways.  The World’s Fair in Philadelphia, in 1876, heralded this distinction: the Chinese were declared a dying race; Japan was praised.” (P. 182) The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War, by James Bradley…

My brother, Mark Presco, described Melba as a ‘Control Freak’. Coming from a master control freak, this is quite an honor. Mark stopped seeing our grandmother, because she put him to work every time he did. That was my experience. Vic was the same way. This is why I almost conclude the Stuttmeisters were Prussian…

Laurel Street may have been developed by William Stuttmeister. Rosemary told me they gave the names of trees to the new streets of Fruit Vale. I found the streetcar line that Melba took with her infant son sitting on Joaquin Miller’s lap. There is a street fair in Laurel Village. The Fruit Vale steetcar would…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: As a artist, who received some serious recognition at a very young age, I was allowed to ask “Who am I?” from a different perspective than others. This was always a problem, because I was allowed to begin my own autobiography, just in case I became famous one day. And…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: “On Monday, the president commuted the sentences of 46 federal inmates, most of whom were serving lengthy terms for drug offenses.” My science fiction novel ‘The Gideon Computer’ has come true. The Last Hippie of the future has been set free of the for-profit prison system. The President of the…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: I made the mistake of telling my daughter, Heather Hanson, and her mother, Patrice Hanson, about the very wealthy man who gave me a menacing look at Christine’s funeral. I was standing next to my mother greeting the guests. He was very cordial to Rosemary, but refused to shake my…

It looks like the Stuttmeister home and orchard was on Peralta Creek that has it’s source near Joaquin Miller’s house in the Hights. Rosemary said Maple St. was one of the streets William Stuttmeister and his kin, William Beyer, built over forty homes. This land looks like it belonged to the Peralta family. This creek…

My niece, Shannon Rosamond, used the word “DISPOSED” to describe what my family did to me. She avoided the word “SACRIFICED” because I was sacrificed to make it all work for everyone, starting with Vic, who claimed I was not his son. He disposed of me at an early age. This is because he, and…