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    Jeff Weiss is an LA-based writer whose family lore claims a tenuous biological kinship with Harry Houdini (née Ehrich Weiss), which may explain his affinity for the Grateful Dead's "West LA Fadeaway." He believes that the most significant psychic rupture in 21st Century American life was Britney Spears shaving her head in 2007 in a Tarzana beauty salon. His book, "Waiting For Britney Spears" will be out next fall on MCD/FSG. As you read this, his cat, Alice Coltane (The Cat) is yelling at him. 

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    Banditdamack Is on the Run

    By Jeff Weiss

    The sirens are off, but the silence is plenty ominous. Only a few seconds separate the moment when the Hemet police car bends the corner from when the cops bounce out of the late-model SUV to start lumbering in our direction. No time to do anything but react. Until now, it has been an almost … Continue Reading
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    Son of Joshua Tree

    By Jeff Weiss

    About an hour before the sun starts to abandon this wild expanse of the high desert, the owner of the six-acre homestead that I’m renting for the weekend issues a dire warning:  “Be careful of the energy vortexes around here. They reflect back at you,” he says, picking up a shard of broken glass … Continue Reading