WATTAGE
Loved Chris Ziegler’s Mike Watt interview [“Young Man Blues,” Dec. 12]. I can’t believe Watt is 50. We’re all getting old.
MARSHALL
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Thanks so much for Chris Ziegler’s quirky and revealing Mike Watt interview. I’ve always been a casual Minutemen and fIREHOSE fan and was jazzed when Watt joined the latter-day Stooges. For sure that he’s a talented musician . . .

However, in your interview, Watt comes off like a scatterbrained punk rock casualty
who doesn’t seem to be able to finish a simple sentence. The strange thing is that Watt name-checks a lot of high level and complicated cultural figures (Dante, Hieronymus Bosch, James Joyce, John Coltrane)—but in the actual interview, Watt appears to be just another whacked-out and aging punk rocker with nothing to say. After reading his babblings, I actually don’t think I’ll be able to listen to my Minutemen albums the same way again.
KELLY BLUEBOOK
Long Beach

Mike Watt is the person that the youth should be looking up to. Not the current trend of flash-in-the-pan straight to train wreck.
CJM
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KNISH-FIT
Miles Clements, you went to the Katella Deli and you didn’t get one of their meat knishes [“Fill Your Heart,” Dec. 12]? Are you insane? Any review of the Katella Deli should just be two words: “Meat. Knish. No frigging gravy though; leave it in the kitchen.” So it wasn’t two words. But order two of them anyway.
D. KELSON
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P-T, DOA
The Press-Telegram is being turned into a poorly staffed branch of the South Bay Daily Breeze [Dave Wielenga’s “Nice Guy Finishes at Last,” Dec. 12]. The only folks still hanging around the place on are no-hopers or those who simply don’t care anymore.
FORMER JOURNO
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BUILDING, BUILDING, BUILDING
I like this story a lot. I’m glad to see the redevelopment people are finding a way to work with this building [Theo Douglas’ “The Fragile Shell of the Psychic Temple of the Holy Kiss,” Dec. 12]. It’s a cool building that could have a second life as something else. We should hold onto anything that gives us a sense of uniqueness. I like this building more than I like the new ones next to it.
GUNTHER
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FROM THEDISTRICTWEEKLY.COM
In response to Daniel de Boom’s online article “Star Trek 3” about the homeless being pushed out of Lincoln Park to accommodate the filming of a new Star Trek movie.

Long Beach owes nothing to the homeless. Long Beach taxpayers owe nothing to the homeless. The studios owe nothing to the homeless, no more than any of you owe anything to any of us. This is the United States of America, a capitalistic, democratic country. You “get stuff” by working hard, paying taxes, saving, voting and being responsible to yourself, your community and your society. If you choose not to participate in contributing, you end up getting run out of “the park” sooner or later. Welcome to America!
RKJ
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Dear RKJ, thanks for the last eight years, it’s been great.
HOWARDX
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