I (Heart) Babylon, Tenochtitlan, and Ysteléi
Richard Villegas Jr. is a 1974 Ystelei cabernet aged for three decades in the California oak-lined basin of the mega-pueblo L.A.-titlan. Belvedere Elementary, Our Lady of Lourdes, Bosco Tech, UCLA, and USC were the institutions. T-parties, Tempo, and Tuesdays at a club formerly known as Woody’s were the situations.  Villegas loves walks on the beach, Free Cuba! drinks, his Smurf village app, banda (Serbian or Mexican) and purposefully mixing the sacred with the profane. He labors on a novel and works to ultimately free himself of an indentured servitude administered concurrently by LAUSD and, la cabrona, Ms. Salliemae.