Hollywood Park A Memoir

I read a book. I'm just finishing it now that was so good. So I think his name is pronounced Mikkel Jolette.

It's a big, long, actual hardback book.

He was in Synanon as a child. It's so bananas. It's so unbelievable. It's so heartfelt.

Speaking of cults I have a book that I'm listening to that I fucking love that I won't tell you about.

So it's it's by this it's a memoir and it's by this guy named Mikkel Joliet J O L L E.

And then I started listening to it and it starts as him as a kid like five years old and it starts as his mother sneaks him out of the cult that they're in and then goes from there.

He was in Synanon. Yes that's the one that is out in it's in Sonoma County.

It's called Hollywood Park. Hollywood Park by Mikkel Jolette.

"The school is where they put the kids when they took us from our parents. It's where we all lived from the time we were six months old. Since Chuck, the old man, said that dope fiends would just mess up their kids anyway, we were all put in a building together to become children of the universe."

"You had to listen to Chuck. We had demonstrators who were like teachers and classes and songs and I was lucky because I had a Bonnie. She would hug me every day and sing songs with me and call me son and ask me what I want for a snack."

"Most of the other kids didn't have a Bonnie though and some never even saw their moms or dads. They just never came to visit."

"Dmitri said he doesn't remember his mom's face. She was somewhere else. He didn't know where his dad was. The demonstrators say we don't need our parents because we have each other, but we don't like sharing our toys and I don't know who to talk to when I woke up with a bad dream or fell off of the monkey bars."

"Some of the kids were very sad. Tony, his brother, used to sit alone at the edge of the playground all day and his brother was a little older than him. He would turn away when one of the demonstrators tried to hug him. He doesn't trust the adults and he doesn't play with other kids that much. When mom came to visit, she would say he's just like that and he needs to learn how to deal with his anger, but maybe it's because someone did bad things to him. That happens sometimes. The kids would get hit really hard or locked in a closet and there was no mom or dad to tell because they lived somewhere else and you couldn't even remember their faces."

the school is where they put the kids when they took us from our parents. It's where we all lived from the time we were six months old.

Since Chuck, the old man, said that dope fiends would just mess up their kids anyway, we were all put in a building together to become children of the universe.

You had to listen to Chuck. We had demonstrators who were like teachers and classes and songs and I was lucky because I had a Bonnie.

She would hug me every day and sing songs with me and call me son and ask me what I want for a snack.

Most of the other kids didn't have a Bonnie though and some never even saw their moms or dads. They just never came to visit.