A description and classification of the "Fauna": people I interact with, including fellow tenants and family.

I'll make my often obscure stuff clearer by providing a list of people, words, phrases and ideas along with explanations.

Eventually including a taxonomy of the "Fauna" by which mean I hope to become a

"Linnaeus of Human Bondage" (Credit: Laing).

Part #1:
Glossary of Terms for A Stranger in a Strange Land
  • State-sponsored Nudnik:
  • Meanderbot/Neanderbot:
  • Sassenach aka these Gentlemen of the Organs of State Security:
  • Movers and Shakers:
  • Oh, so sorry!:
  • the Self-licking Ice Cream Cone
  • Sync (synchronization)
  • Feedback
  • 無為 (Wu wei or action through inaction): A traditional Taoist idea, repurposed. I occasionally use it as an antidote to my (understandable) propensity for shrillness ―  itself a side effect of Zersetzung (see below). The way of the Tao.
  • Zersetzung: The way of the Stasi, so to speak. With Vladimir Vladimirovich known to be a high priest of this (deplorable) practice. For proof, check out his nickname: "the Moth."
  • "Thump and Hum" A (kind of) music much heard around here lately. Sources include: (1) Cars as they drive by with volume at an earth-shaking level (2) At least 2 neighbors in our complex (3) Other neighbors, more remote, though still on my street. Sync and feedback occasionally noted here as well. A sample can be heard here.
  • Lord Haw-Haw™: No longer an individual, a type associated with a behavior, rather.

  • These Princes who Govern Us: Selbstverständlich...

Part #2:
List of what I now refer to as "Movers and Shakers." My fellow tenants in the circus at 2622-2626 S Cochran Ave, Los Angeles, which landlord, AFJ Investments, is pleased to call an apartment complex

"Movers" for the concerted efforts by those listed below to, unless I, paranoid schizophrenic that I am, am gravely mistaken as to the nature of the atmosphere permeating this place, encourage me to move out. "Shakers" for the means some of them have used to that end, i.e., physical (though, so far, of a nominal nature) attacks.

  • In pride of place: "Our Lady of the Perpetual Inspections™": My landlady, Tiffany Anderson, owner of AFJ Investments. Ms. Anderson, while you and I may not be on the same team, I am convinced we are ultimately on the same side.
  • "Баба Утром" (Baba Outrom, the Morning Woman): The gold standard as far as quality, persistence and quantity of provocation are concerned. A former tenant in bungalow across from mine, now dead. Said to have been mentally ill.
  • "Tyson, the Corn-fed Golem™": One of that mighty tribe I've named the "Shakers;" a Dacoit wannabe.
  • "Miss Mumbles" (a bona fide "Shaker").
  • "Mr. Big (Booty)", connected to the Corn-fed Golem, Tyson (also a "Shaker")
  • Name unknown, pepper sprayed me (another  "Shaker")
  • "The Banshee(s)", roommate(s) of the above-mentioned Miss Mumbles. I use the tentative plural as there may have been successive individuals involved. With all showing signs of mental instability. All of them.
  • "Brother Cantinflas".
  • "The Lady Lurk", clearly mentally ill.
  • "Mrs. 'Bell" aka "Mrs. Decibels w.o. Content," clearly mentally ill.
  • "The Tiny Terror": Son of the Corn-fed Golem, I know his (first) name but will refrain from using it as he is a minor. Beginning (as of 6/1/24) of his odd behavior.
  • "Saint Bernard", shows some peculiar symptoms.
  • "Tub Thumper," lives two door down.
  • "The Magician" aka "Rickety-Split" (the latter pronounced with a pronounced Japanese accent). José "the Magician" Nava, because of the wonders he can work when one's back is turned, wonders not necessarily to one's advantage. "Rickety-split" on account of (some of) the work he does on behalf of AFJ Investments, my landlord. With his work at times a bit "rickety," he then splits. I added the pronunciation hint because of the speed of it all, again when my back is turned, i.e., lickety-split. Specific anecdote/example available upon request.

N.B.: Though some of the above show clear signs of mental illness, this does not mean they're not faking it, the one not excluding the other. Could we be dealing with "eine Simulantenbande." Oder so was änliches. I merely ask...

Part #3:
Thumbnail Sketches of Other Individuals
  • Trébuchet: My sister, Irene Hawkins of Florence, Italy, for her puzzling attempts at "queering the pitch," e.g., once suggesting I write a letter of apology to my neighbors for my Open Letter to a Cannibal, see this, a widely distributed flyer (including to the LAPD) in which I describe (with names of those responsible) some of the attempts by several of the tenants in my apartment complex to compromise or destabilize me. Purpose: in her words, to "make them feel more secure"...  Imagine.
  • Frau Doktor #1: Sarah Elizabeth Hooks, MD, Kaiser Permanente, West Los Angeles. Never a good sign when I use my limited German; for details, see my book, Schizophrenia Weaponized.
  • Frau Doktor #2: Ericka Marie Gair, MD, per diem, Kaiser Permanente, West Los Angeles. Idem.
  • [Name unknown]: Another "Shaker," MRI technician, Kaiser Permanente, West Los Angeles. He once assaulted me (yanking, without a word, earplugs out of my ears as I was dressing after a scan). I complained to Kaiser management, asking that: 1) mention be made of the incident in both our files and 2) he not be present should I ever visit that department again.
  • Herr Doktor Mabuse: Jeffrey David Siegel, MD, internal medicine provider, Kaiser Permanente, West Los Angeles. See the (recent, 2024) email exchange in which, attempting to get an opinion on an asymmetry  of my hands, I got impenetrable medical jargon instead. Methinks the good Doktor m'abuse, thus the pun(s).

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