Whew, we made it! It’s officially September (well, technically it was official the other day but no time for semantics right now) which means we made it through the dreaded “summer months” (Yes, the temperatures will still be in the triple digits for another month or so but we made it through the most of   Read More …

Seven years ago an event happened that was so crazy there was no way it wouldn’t change my life. June Eighteen through Twenty, Two-Thousand and Ten – Mammoth Erection Fest We set out that day with little more than a poorly-formed idea of what we would find. The Rusty Reverend Flip Cassidy, our friend John Martin, and   Read More …

I remember exactly where I was on this day, 6 years ago… I was sitting on my bed, for the month, at a house, next to a derelict vineyard, in Paso Robles.  I was less than two weeks in to a month-long visit with my dad (who, incidentally, would pass away just four-and-a-half weeks later).   Read More …

The season has officially ended; which, naturally,  means we still have more things going on than we care to count. The attempted First Annual Niland First Responders Day BBQ was a rousing success. Though no one showed up, we were out there with burgers, dogs, and smiles of varying sincerity. So, as I say, we had   Read More …

The end of the season is upon us; so I’ll just brush this new layer of dust off my keyboard and say some things about that… The end of March brought a few things: Liz and Coco started a MASSIVE, and long overdue, renovation on the kitchen (aided by Peter’s fantastic find of some granite   Read More …

These quiet lazy(ish) days allow me to reflect on the last couple months… After a few little bumps in the road, January passed in a haze of glory and East Jesus officially turned 10 years old. As was so fitting, the celebrations occurred on the same day as the Niland Tomato Festival and Art Car   Read More …

Welcome to 2017! We can’t believe that we are already into the second month of the New Year! We’ve been very busy here at East Jesus and have some exciting projects to share with you. First of all, we have several events and work parties upcoming. Biggest of all was the East Jesus 10th Anniversary   Read More …

About a week has passed since what would have been Charlie Russell’s 50th birthday.   We celebrated in our traditionally grand East Jesus fashion with a pig roast, pie, and of course, chocolate martinis.  Royce and Ed lit up the party (and the CarBQ) with fire spinning and a contraption Rube Goldberg would probably have   Read More …

There’s a palpable sensation swirling about East Jesus lately. We feel it in our bones, breathe it in and out, see it out the corners of our eyes. If you’ve never read Charlie’s blog post about East Jesus 2.0, you realize that he had bigger, stranger dreams for the future. If you feel like reading   Read More …

      I can’t believe it has almost been a year since we moved out to East Jesus. It has been a crazy journey. Jenn and I were asked to be caretakers of this amazing experimental, sustainable, habitable art installation in progress soon after we moved here, and we took over in April. It   Read More …