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John Ferak "Wrecking Crew" -- Live Saturday 2pm PT on TCU!

John Ferak has the rare ability to make a fascinating true crime story even more compelling by virtue of his talents as both an investigative journalist and brilliant storyteller.

An authority on wrongful arrest and conviction cases, Ferak’s fifth true-crime book, WRECKING CREW: Demolishing The Case Against Steven Avery, is available in paperback or as an e-book.

In 2016-17, while working for the USA TODAY NETWORK’s Wisconsin Investigative Team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case against Steven Avery, who had already beat one wrongful conviction only to be charged with the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005. The case became the wildly successful Netflix “Making A Murderer” documentary.

 

Listen live Saturday 2pm PT by clicking this link!

John Ferak "Wrecking Crew" -- Live Saturday 2pm PT on TCU!

John Ferak has the rare ability to make a fascinating true crime story even more compelling by virtue of his talents as both an investigative journalist and brilliant storyteller.

An authority on wrongful arrest and conviction cases, Ferak’s fifth true-crime book, WRECKING CREW: Demolishing The Case Against Steven Avery, is available in paperback or as an e-book.

In 2016-17, while working for the USA TODAY NETWORK’s Wisconsin Investigative Team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case against Steven Avery, who had already beat one wrongful conviction only to be charged with the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005. The case became the wildly successful Netflix “Making A Murderer” documentary.

 

Listen live Saturday 2pm PT by clicking this link!

Brilliant Artist Sean Sullivan -- Pop Culture King of Outlaw Art Returns

He is called LayercakNY but not really because his work is often in overlays one atop the other creating time warp and event specific references that drop kick nostalgia out of the octagon of depression.  The experience of his art reminds me  of shaving.

He’s an asshole, a bully, a hustler. “Everything you’ve heard about me is true,” Sullivan grinned. “And I’m worse than that.”

  I don't mean the actual process of dragging a razor over my face,  but in the meditative state the mind runs free  -- or perhaps leisurely strolls...images and snippets of recollections arise from the mind's own recycle bin -- instances and conversations pile up on each other from the heavy "portable" Philco TV upon which I watched JOHNNY JUPITOR, SUPERMAN, CPN CY AND POPEYE, THE LATE SHOW, SHOCK THEATER  ...Howdy Doody -- omg-- Buffalo Bob had a heart attack live from the NBC studio in NYC

His father was a detective in the bomb squad. and his mother the superintendent for a tenant building. They lived on 71st Street, near Lincoln Center Theater.   The Amsterdam projects were down the block, along with poverty and crime. On the weekends, his mother sent him to stay with his grandmother near Gun Hill Road & Fordham in the Bronx.

 

and my brother's girlfriend comes out of his bedroom angry as hell, grabs a piece of fried chicken off the table and throws it at him....she misses and the chicken breast lands in my toy box .. not the big toy box that Uncle Phil made for me, but the smaller carboard one where I keep my little guys -- plastic and rubber cowboys... and hand puppets ...

"What  British protectorate are you from, Mr. Barer?"

My mother.

Brilliant Artist Sean Sullivan -- Pop Culture King of Outlaw Art Returns

He is called LayercakNY but not really because his work is often in overlays one atop the other creating time warp and event specific references that drop kick nostalgia out of the octagon of depression.  The experience of his art reminds me  of shaving.

He’s an asshole, a bully, a hustler. “Everything you’ve heard about me is true,” Sullivan grinned. “And I’m worse than that.”

  I don't mean the actual process of dragging a razor over my face,  but in the meditative state the mind runs free  -- or perhaps leisurely strolls...images and snippets of recollections arise from the mind's own recycle bin -- instances and conversations pile up on each other from the heavy "portable" Philco TV upon which I watched JOHNNY JUPITOR, SUPERMAN, CPN CY AND POPEYE, THE LATE SHOW, SHOCK THEATER  ...Howdy Doody -- omg-- Buffalo Bob had a heart attack live from the NBC studio in NYC

His father was a detective in the bomb squad. and his mother the superintendent for a tenant building. They lived on 71st Street, near Lincoln Center Theater.   The Amsterdam projects were down the block, along with poverty and crime. On the weekends, his mother sent him to stay with his grandmother near Gun Hill Road & Fordham in the Bronx.

 

and my brother's girlfriend comes out of his bedroom angry as hell, grabs a piece of fried chicken off the table and throws it at him....she misses and the chicken breast lands in my toy box .. not the big toy box that Uncle Phil made for me, but the smaller carboard one where I keep my little guys -- plastic and rubber cowboys... and hand puppets ...

"What  British protectorate are you from, Mr. Barer?"

My mother.