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Entries from LAist tagged with 'helterskelter'

October 6, 2007

When people trade scary stories, it's usually something that happened to them; a ghost they saw, a voice they heard. Unfortunately, most of my scary stories are things I brought upon myself. When I was a teenager, I hung around with a group of people who took a lot of acid. We would just take some acid, then decide where to go. The woods or the beach were usually good places to fry. 7-11......

Continue Reading "Scary Stories: Spahn Ranch"

August 21, 2007

Maybe we should take things like this more seriously, but last week "vandals" broke into a vacation home in Palm Springs and caused some eyebrows to rise when they turned over furniture (very nicely), arranged foliage and sticks to create pentagrams and clog toilets, and wrote words like "Pigz" and "Helter Skelter" on a window and on the fireplace... with soap! It was right around the 38th anniversary of the Manson Family murders of......

Continue Reading "Palm Springs Satanists or just Bored Kids?"

August 31, 2006

Ryan Star, the "darkhorse" of the Supernova singing competition, has sung his last note for Tommy Lee and the boys. While the band members agreed that Ryan was the performer who's shown the most growth throughout the season, they felt he wasn't right for the band and let him go. Most of the audience and contestants were in shock, since Storm Large's performance shouting of "Helter Skelter" was pretty much unbearable. Now we're not......

Continue Reading "Supernova Shocker: Ryan Gets the Boot"

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