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Jared Mees: The Best Kind of American (Long Beach, CA)

Jared Mees: The Best Kind of American (Long Beach, CA) There are only a few ways to describe the chaos that was Long Beach, CA on July 3rd. The first is to write "watch this video." The second is to write about my childhood friend Todd Henry and his cousin Ryan who passed a hat amongst the 100 or so people at the El Dorado restaurant and within 10 minutes had collected enough money to pay for almost all of the repair costs of James Brown's recently blackened and crispied carburetor. Todd, who is now known as Cy as he changed his name two [...]