June 9, 2025
Harley Lond on the left; Bill Gaglione on the right.
Photography by Donna Lee Philip
Haircuts and concept by Anga Badana
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Over 50 years ago, I met a young cultural worker, Harley W. Lond, whose interests included theater, jazz, and experimental art and writing. Not only was he a major organizing force at the Burbage Theater in its early days on W. Pico Blvd., but he went on to edit and publish several issues of one of the most distinctive magazines of the small press scenes in the 1970s. INTERMEDIA was unlike any other magazine in that it was just as interested in original pieces of writing as in creating rhizomes of other artists who worked in ways that placed them at the very far margins of commodified culture. Harley Lond also facilitated the bureaucratic paperwork and financial accounts associated with the non-profit, institutional structure (Century City Educational Arts Project) that served as the umbrella for my own publishing project (Momentum Press) as well as for the Burbage Theater.
Harley went on to have a career as a journalist and editor in the culture industry’s print journals, but he is no longer able to work, even at part-time jobs at bookstores. He is facing, in fact, a major health crisis in his old age, and he needs as much support as possible. He has had to move from Hollywood to Lancaster, not because he wants to live in Lancaster, but because that is the only place he can afford as he battles cancer with the assistance of a City of Hope outpost.
I realize that many causes are asking for our attention and support now, but no donation is too small in his case not to be of help.
Please join me in helping a man whose efforts have helped and inspired many, many people in nurturing the transformations that several generations in the past 75 years have made possible.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-harley-londs-medical-journey
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