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A Reward for Anyone Who Reaches the End of the Excerpt
By Geo Ong A short (in relation) excerpt from the 1344-page Imperial by William T. Vollmann, a work of nonfiction about the continuum between Mexico and America – more specifically, illegal immigration...
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A Sneak Peek into an Urchin Board Meeting
By Geo Ong You probably wonder everyday how our wonderful blog is run. Do those three really get along as well as they seem, or do their meetings consist of arguing and the throwing of household...
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Thanksgiving with the Urchins
The beautiful and majestic symbol of America's freedom. Or gratitude. Or something. Every November, Americans come together to celebrate the displacement and destruction of a people and their...
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Coffee House Spotlight: Catalina Coffee Company, Redondo Beach, California
By Geo Ong I feel like the luckiest person alive. Last week I entered the Catalina Coffee Company for the very first time. I ordered a giant soy latte at the bar and sat in just about the coziest...
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Apparently My Heaven Exists in Culver City
By Geo Ong Last week I mentioned that I was the luckiest person alive. This week I’ve gone to heaven. Culver City, California, has fast been rising as a place you actually want to be, with handfuls of...
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An Urchin Movement
By Geo Ong I am moving to New York City. I read somewhere that the air is better there. My departure date is 22 July 2011. Mark your calendars, just in case I forget. I am a Los Angeles native, an...
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Out East and Back West
By Geo Ong I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West and the South....
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This Week in History
9 September 1850 California is admitted as the thirty-first state of the United States of America. In addition to being the third largest state behind Alaska and Texas, it currently boasts the title of...
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Hometown Heroes
Happy Thanksgiving! For most of us who celebrate the holiday, Thanksgiving means home and all its versions and variations. Wherever you happen to be spending today, and wherever you happen to call home...
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States of the Union
Nearly six months from the President’s State of the Union Address and with four months to the 2014 midterm elections, the Urchin Movement takes a look at some of our respective home states’ most...
View ArticleBeen There, Done That: The Book Proposal Aftermath
I spent the first seven months of 2015 working on a book proposal about Dr. Dre and his place within the larger context of Los Angeles hip hop. It was the biggest project I had worked on to date, so it...
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