Executive Director, Wetlands Action Network
Sierra Club Angeles Chapter
Executive Committee
BUGGED
DEAR EDITOR:
Regarding Rita Neyter's "Ladybug Man" [Good Neighbors, July 30August 5], I feel I was mischaracterized and misquoted. The day Neyter called me from the L.A. Weekly regarding the article she was writing about ladybugs, I said that I had just received a copy of my latest release of the Jazz Corps' Live at the Lighthouse from Cadence Jazz Records. I also mentioned that my next recording, Frogs Breath Saloon, is being released mid-August of 1999. She said she would try to include this information in her article. Instead, I was characterized as a "struggling jazz musician," which I feel is putting me in a negative light, is damaging to my career and couldn't be further from the truth. This has been a great year for me so far -- except for this article.
I was misquoted as saying, "Pesticides are used minimally." What I told her was: To my knowledge the city of Beverly Hills uses no pesticides, and only uses beneficial insects.
--Tommy Peltier
Los Angeles
DRUGSTORE COWBOY
DEAR EDITOR:
Louise Steinman's "Pharmacist's Daughter" [July 28] brought to mind the late Charles Brown's observation "You don't need no narcotics, no antibiotics, you just got a virus called the blues." As a former Culver City drugstore cowboy (now wrestling with form and content in Germany), I say, "More Steinman stories, please."
Witten, Germany
CORRECTION
We regret, in Brendan Bernhard's August 612 cover story, "Making Money: The Conceptual Art of J.S.G. Boggs," having omitted credit for the artwork. The credit would have read, "© JSG BOGGS --JSGBOGGS.COM -- Image courtesy SZILAGE Gallery at 145."
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