Phil Garlington
P.O. Box 901
Victor, CA 95253
[email protected]

The Half-Minute Resume

Synopsis: Former itinerant newspaper reporter, 63. Many orbits of the block.

They Hired Me.
Los Angeles Times, reporter, 1979-82
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, reporter, 1983-86
Washington Times, reporter, 1983
San Francisco Examiner, reporter, l968-74
San Diego Evening Tribune, reporter, 1974
1975 National Enquirer, reporter, 1976
Orange County Register, reporter, 1996-2000 (lay off)  Weekly Calistogan, editor, 1985
Redding Record-Searchlight, city editor 1977
Daly City Record, reporter, 1967
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, reporter, 1988
San Francisco Supervisor Robert Gonzales, aide, 1974
Palo Verde Valley Times, editor, 1999
Carr's Construction, Wasilla, Alaska, tree faller, 1975
Marin-Sonoma Mosquito Abatement, vector control, 1990 

Assignments: Vietnam, Kosovo, Honduras, Mexico

Hollywood: MGM screenplay based on original story: City Haul, 1982
CBS scripts, Fun-Filled Vacation for Two, 1982; Exotica, 1988.

New York: Aces and Eights, novel, publisher M.Evans, police procedural

Magazines: Outside, the lamented California Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Plane and Pilot, Esquire, Rolling Stone

Punches and Badges:
Hearst, LA Times, Orange County press club awards, commercial pilot with instrument rating; BA, English, SF State; state certificates in entomology and vector ecology; Spanish; NTN trivia champion, 1994.
I grow old, I grow old... I will wear my trousers if I remember.  The synapses misfire, the memory miscues.  Bummer.  Happily, for me rambling doesn't get old.  A sport for life, demonstrated by the number of fellow geezers I meet while chugging along the trail.  How swell to see a generally healthy and spry old duffer hefting his rucksack deep in the mountains. Keep fit, and you can hit the dusty trail pretty much right up until it's time to go West. 

The backpacking pensioner, however straightened his means, always has the wherewithal to travel this world.  The astronomical price of a hotel room?  He smiles.  Those  pricy restaurant meals?  A shrug.  Being on the retired list usually means plenty of leisure to roam, but often not much ready to cover the tab.  An open calendar but a flat wallet.  Not the backpacker.  Always, at any age, he is Mr. Self-Sufficient, room and board on his back, the personification of the  Song of the Open Road.  (More)
City Hall, a novel
(A roguish San Francisco supervisor robs the city hall payroll to finance his otherwise hopeless reelection.  Pure meringue.  Optioned by MGM for a long time but now in turnaround.)
Image Boy
Phil Backpacks the UK
Roll Me Over
J.R. on the Range
Duh!
Rancho Costa Nada
Desert Trio
Enfield Rifle
Blythe Jail
Lightweight reporting

The Master Abater         
Too Busy to Work 
Going Postal
Autobiographical Letter
Backpacking UK
Propwash Chronicle
The Caregiver
Vietnam
Another Fine Mess
The Boy Scouts Raised Me
The North Slope
Script Doctor
Prisoner of Weight
Baggage:
My life at the Register    Chronicle article
Screenplays that Hollywood producers have pissed on, so far.

Going Pizza
Sea of Cortez
Rancho Costa Nada:  The Dirt Cheap Desert Homestead
By Phil Garlington
Loompanics

A strange, quirky book about homesteaders in the desolate Smoke Tree Valley in Imperial County, CA.  I'll send you a copy if you mail me $15.  Or you could get it off the Loompanics website.

Rancho book review
FAQs
Excerpts from the book
Aces and Eights, M. Evans, 1975
Noir police procedural set in Sixties San Francsico.  Long out of print but copies may be had by Google-ing, for about ten bucks.		 Re: Roll Me Over. What's left of my Geo after I got hit by a junkie on I-10 near Indio.  An E-ticket ride but I slept through it.  I woke up surrounded by strangers, mostly firefighters.  After being pryed out, IV-ed, x-rayed and MRI-ed, not much personal damage.  The perp (no insurance, of course) got two years.
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