Email Author MATT COKER

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 4, 2010

  "Douchebag Does Sundance"

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1999 Stories by MATT COKER

• Go with the Flow

  published September 2, 1999

  Art by Bob AulIt's time for Clockwork to wallow in the sewage. Again. Less than a month after we wrote about boogie boarding alongside a crap... More >>

• You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, We'll Sue

  published August 26, 1999

  Art by Bob AulThe Asian American Register received a letter on Aug. 5 from attorneys representing Freedom Communications that alleged... More >>

• It Takes a Village Idiot

  published August 19, 1999

  Reader Mark Sheldon submitted this photo of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) posing alongside "professional Hillary Rodham... More >>

• How I Spent My Summer Vacation

  published August 12, 1999

  Art by Bob AulState Senator Bill Morrow probably thought it would be a walk in the park when he stood under a huge shade tree before a group of... More >>

• Cheap, Tasty, Healthy

  published August 5, 1999

  Playing with fire at Mai Huong More >>

• Where the Surf Meets the Turd

  published August 5, 1999

  True story: Clockwork ventured into the ocean off PCH and Brookhurst a couple of weekends ago, which was surprising considering Billy Carter... More >>

• Out of the Mouths of Boobs

  published July 29, 1999

  Photo by Jim WashburnArt Pedroza Jr., a onetime Weekly advertising salesman turned Republican Hispanic outreach worker turned—last... More >>

• Putting the P-U in Public/Private Partnerships

  published July 22, 1999

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• Another Fine Mess

  published July 15, 1999

  Photo by Keith MayClockwork asked Irvine Valley College (IVC) philosophy and ethics professor Roy Bauer the other day: Roy Bauer, you just won... More >>

• The Ol Switcheroo

  published July 15, 1999

  On June 28, the Angels and Dodgers settled into last place in the western divisions of their respective leagues (both were seven games out of... More >>

• Superpower Like Us

  published July 8, 1999

  Dana Parsons at the Times Orange County had better watch his step. Should we point out the obvious—that Gordon Dillow has a rat... More >>

• Ain't He a Pisser?

  published July 1, 1999

  Representative Christopher Cox's high-profile congressional committee alleges that 20 years of spying on the U.S. allowed China to modernize... More >>

• Hemp, Hemp Hooray!

  published June 24, 1999

  When we talked with Sam H. Clauder II a year or so ago, he was no happy campaigner. He now says he had sunk $25,000 of his own money into the... More >>

• A Real Lou-Lou

  published June 17, 1999

  Assemblywoman Sheila Kuehl failed last week in her effort to ban discrimination against public school students and employees on the basis of... More >>

• A Conspiracy So Vast

  published June 10, 1999

  Last week, we reported that Julie Mandrake died of pneumonia in Arizona on May 10. The day after that article appeared, we received a fax... More >>

• Greener Pastures

  published June 3, 1999

  Over the years, OC Weekly and the Darnel Squad—which eschews shaving, cosmetics, antiperspirant, deodorant soaps and daily... More >>

• Kicked in the Balkans

  published May 27, 1999

  Photo by Jeanne RiceThe first clue that the Kosovo conflict isn't your father's European war came on May 12, when 15 folks from Irvine, Tustin,... More >>

• Don't Panic, Drink Organic

  published May 20, 1999

  Many who survived last year's Hurricane Mitch believed they were witnesses to the end of the world. In less than a week in October 1998, the... More >>

• War of the Rose

  published May 13, 1999

  How far Right is Eddie Rose? He once called Gil Ferguson-who, while Newport Beach's assemblyman from 1984 to 1994, advocated sea-lion hunts,... More >>

• Beach Blanket Stinko

  published May 6, 1999

  Corky's fight to keep our ocean clean More >>

• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Bomb

  published May 6, 1999

  From outside, the house on Tustin's East Seventeenth Street resembles all the other single-family residences alongside it-except for that big... More >>

• Head of State

  published April 29, 1999

  Legend has it that Mexican muralist Diego Rivera infuriated wealthy industrialist John D. Rockefeller earlier this century by working Vladimir... More >>

• Plagiarized for your Protection

  published April 22, 1999

  It's always tough to get Clockwork's mojo working after a vacation. But we've discovered that by holding our poison pen upside-down, shaking it... More >>

• The Unabauer Manifesto

  published April 15, 1999

  Roy Bauer is South County colleges' professor of dissent More >>

• Red Menace

  published April 8, 1999

  On March 24, the Register reported that the Westminster City Council had passed a resolution that "broadly condemns communism." Clockwork knew... More >>