by John Brantingham Mark Neuffer In the California State of Slippage Even the land slips under your feet here, like nature laughing at you, and you think about everything, the way life was going to be and sometimes it seems that you’re in one of those silent films that all the critics and film professors tell you are genius but in the end it’s just hammy overacting and everyone smashing some poor bastard loveable loser over the head with a frying pan and that’s our hero exc