More Steve Rocco: Click the image of the mystery man in the right column here for video of the man in action. I had no idea he looks so much like Smithereens-era Pat Dinizio. Or perhaps Monkees-era Michael Nesmith gone to seed.
Also, you’ll get to hear an extended version of Rocco’s board-meeting remarks, including his thoughts on industrial slavery. Also, you’ll get to see how hilariously bad Los Angeles local TV news is.
Plus there’s this story, reporting Rocco’s first interview with the press, which contains some of the funniest non-fiction ever to appear in print:
Rocco spoke in veiled terms of his beliefs, saying that to understand them one must first read a book he self-published in 1992, “Behind The Orange Curtain: Secret Chronicles and Public Record Accounts of Corruption, Murder and Scandal of Corporate and Political California.”
Rocco said the book explores the effects of his arrest and conviction in 1980 for stealing a packet of sausages and a few rolls of film from a grocery store.
The incident, which he called a setup, had a big impact on his life, Rocco said. At the time, he says he was working as a substitute teacher in Orange Unified schools as well as other districts. His hopes to be hired as a full-time teacher in Orange, he said, were thwarted because of that arrest and another three years later on charges that he stole record albums from a library.
“Revenge,” he said, is too strong a word to describe his goal
