Chris Z

Joined January 2021

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My opinion column garnered more reader responses than any other contributor in the paper's 40-year run. As a stand-up comic, I performed in 16 countries & 26 states. I've written 2 one-man shows, umpteen poems, songs, essays & chronologies.

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Stars Misaligned
Stars Misaligned I remember it all where the accent should fall in your pretty name I still remember your birthday. That secondhand sofa where we laughed 'til we cried
By Chris Z4 years ago in Poets
I'm Here for Rick's Party
"I’m Here for Rick’s Party!" In ‘93, I was 17. I kept a near life-sized cardboard likeness of silver screen “legend” Jean Claude Van Damme in my hatchback’s backseat. First-time passengers would glimpse Jean Claude lurking in the rearview mirror and catch air from fright. It never got old.
By Chris Z4 years ago in Confessions
Dragons In the Valley
Dragons In the Valley Prologue “There weren’t always dragons in the valley.” I choked those words up, my flashflood of impotent rage impelled by our then-president’s indifference toward dragons officially being named our nation’s leading cause of death.
By Chris Z4 years ago in Fiction
"All's Well That Ends Well"
Prologue Last April, I upgraded from a squalid studio in seedy Van Nuys to a spartan guest house in Burbank's burbs. I whittled my inaugural evening away unpacking. At 10pm, I popped a beer and set about exploring my new digs. A subtly concealed missive awaited me inside the medicine cabinet…
By Chris Z4 years ago in Criminal

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