Archive - Coco's Fantabulous Afro

Cold Beer and Flat Spots

The local skate rats wanted to go downtown and bomb the parking garages and Manny said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world, like gravity…

3 hrs ago • Gary Trujillo

Genetic Traits of the Recently Spaced Out

We are laying on her bed, which is really more of a mattress than a bed, the kind of mattress that exists in apartments where nobody has quite given up…

Jun 2 • Gary Trujillo

May 2026

Mapplethorpe and a Bottle of Jack

The Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective made her cry.

May 26 • Gary Trujillo

When Something Finds You

The bookmark was a piece of recycled cardstock, some dead independent bookstore's name on it in a sans-serif that had briefly been fashionable, and I…

May 5 • Gary Trujillo

April 2026

Broken Cigarettes

I walked into the dual Tower Records/Books with the specific intention of stealing a copy of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller and the fluorescent lights…

Apr 2 • Gary Trujillo

March 2026

A Venice Beach Tale

Mar 18 • Gary Trujillo

February 2026

The Persistence of Her Things

The morning light came through the blinds in thin, institutional strips. Arlo had been talking for seven minutes about Charlotte’s hair. I knew it was…

Feb 24 • Gary Trujillo

Skincare Routines and the Key to My Bullshit

I’m at the usual Saturday night blowout.

Feb 17 • Gary Trujillo

January 2026

A Love Story Footnote

“What is left of a man and all his pride but bones.” —Jack Kerouac

Jan 3 • Gary Trujillo

December 2025

A Brief Magazine Autopsy

Here’s a cover I “designed” for this obscure, already-on-life-support music magazine—back when print was circling the drain but still clung to a pulse…

Dec 23, 2025 • Gary Trujillo

Notes from a 1968 Playboy

...and the Wreckage It Implies

Dec 4, 2025 • Gary Trujillo

November 2025

Blowjob in a Minor Key

If you come out of a movie saying, “Well, that was interesting,” then it was a piece of shit.—William Friedkin

Nov 18, 2025 • Gary Trujillo