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Special Thanks for L.A. Event...

Submitted May 17, 2004 - 11:56 pm by Al Giordano
To Barry Crimmins, who saved the day.

To Andrew Grice and The Fund for Authentic Journalism.

To the Orchid Restaurant.

To Suzy Williams and Bill Burnett of The Boners, who finally gave me the chance to say in public, "the boners are up next."

To Vessy Mink.

To Mike Gray.

To Copublisher Chris Fee who flew out from Ohio to help out with and attend the event.

To Copublisher Kevin Okabe, who stayed with the posse from entrance to exit and pitched in with everything imaginable.

To Sunny Angulo.

To Class of 2004 scholars from the LA area who came and said a few words, Sterling Harris, Andrea Wilkins y Martínez, and...

...a special thanks to 2004 scholar Adrianne Jackson who also got us the venue and did so much advance work to make the event happen before she even knew she was getting a scholarship.

To my sister Lisa Thurston ("Isn't she gorgeous, boys? Careful! That's a trick question! If you say yes I'll kick your ass! If you say no... I'll kick your ass!") who came in from out of town. She came, she charmed, she conquered! (Angulo is already lobbying me to hire the ever-popular Lisa as trip director for the J-School.)

To my longtime friend, colleague, and prolific painter of canvasses, Corina del Carmen, who I met in Zapatista lands in 1997 and who also came in from out of town for the event.

To Dan Pasley and the rest of the gang at the ACLU of Southern California and the San Pedro Alternative Media Council, who gave me that very attractive UPPIE Award (yes, I got it through Customs), and who made all the other events possible by bringing me to L.A. Thanks!

And Thanks to everyone I did not mention on first blush. It was great fun all around. And we raised some scholarship bucks, too. Grice will have a report forthcoming shortly.

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