With clear sympathy for those he feels were sold dreams that will never happen, he talks about how one of the few occupied homes on his block recently emptied out as his neighbor moved to Colorado after months of being unable to get a job.Īlong with his “eXiled” posts, Levine earns a living freelancing and has written for big-name publications, including Wired, Slate, Time and Playboy. Thompson even bypassed the city for Barstow on his drug-induced journeys to Las Vegas and back.īut Levine’s pieces are also laced with a fondness for the landscape and for the people he’s getting to know. He blasts Victorville’s high concentration of fast-food restaurants, with a 4-1 ratio over Los Angeles by his calculations, and how Hunter S. He describes his first visit to a local dive bar and “ghetto bird watching,” as a helicopter circled above his home blaring a description of a suspect on the loose. The Web site is gritty, as Levine writes the way he speaks: Reflective, thought-provoking observations littered with F-bombs and blunt criticism. Because out here, you can’t help but see the scam at the heart of the American Dream.” “But it has also scared the c- out of me. “It’s strange, but life out here has appealed to me in ways I did not expect, making me an unlikely defender of the desert lifestyle,” Levine said. Levine moved into his McMansion in March, paying $1,150 per month for a home that could fit his previous apartments inside any one of its three bedrooms - the allure he believes is at the heart of the much of the city’s ills. “I wanted to see it, to see what it was like to live there and to look at the forces that made this happen.”Īfter studying maps and visiting several potential ground zeros, Levine said the aftermath of Victorville’s boom and bust cycle easily edged the High Desert’s Key City to the front of the line for an experiment in immersion writing. “The housing collapse began to fascinate me,” said Levine, who was born in St. One editor is now dispatching from Florida and another from New York, contributing regular updates to. When the Russian government shut the alternative paper “The eXile” down for being just a little too outspoken, Yasha Levine and his cohorts left Moscow and hit the road with their gonzo-style journalism.Observing Victorville: Gonzo journalism from the “Key City” Edwards, and then go to the Daily Press site to see Levine get bashed by the local right-wing comment troll militia. Read the full article below, written by the lovely and talented Brooke K. After all, the man is about to celebrate the six month anniversary of his self-imposed Victorville exile. Occifer, Sir? Nothin’ but Pabst Blue Ribbon, Marlboro Reds, and lots of crumpled paper in the Levine household, sir. What helps make the Levine front-pager so juicy are the other headlines it shares the page with, like, “Man arrested after home is discovered to be a meth lab.” No, that’s not about Mr. A full-color photo of Levine is splashed marquee-like on the front page, of course. The front page of Victorville’s Daily Press newspaper featured a profile of our fearless Domestic War Correspondent, his life, his wisdom, and his work, as well as a Q&A sidebar to help locals get to know the celebrity in their midst. Exiled editor Yasha Levine has officially hit the Big Time.
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