Echoes of the Garage

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November 15, 2025

“Still Coughing Like Crazy”

📓 Friday, November 14, 2025 — 9:34 p.m. Still sick tonight. Still coughing… sometimes that shit hurts. I was thinking earlier about loops — growing up wondering if anything I’m doing is any good at all. While the shower steam filled the bathroom, I was decompressing — just occupying my mind with thoughts. Anything to… Continue reading

Journal

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November 8, 2025

“The Midnight Ice Cream Truck.”

Grand Theft Auto 3, East L.A., and a neighbor’s “ride” that didn’t need a key. Back in 2001–2002, I was an usher at Dodger Stadium. One of my coworkers, Arturo—Art—became my boy. Looked like a cholo (shaved head, mustache, heavyset) but he wasn’t; chill, funny, good dude. After late games I’d drive him home to… Continue reading

Journal

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November 2, 2025

“Many Men, One Ice Cart”

A quiet night. An ice cart. 50 Cent’s bodyguard yelling at me. Didn’t end how he expected. Back when I worked as a houseman at a hotel in Beverly Hills, every night brought something different. Celebrities, chaos, weird little moments that stuck. This one night, I was out by the bungalows. I was twenty-two, maybe… Continue reading

Journal

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November 2, 2025

“Every Shade of Purple”

A quick trip to help housekeeping turned into a purple fever dream — the night I stepped into Prince’s world. I used to work in a hotel in Beverly Hills back when I was twenty-two. I was a houseman. Some of the stories from that place and time I’ll eventually share with you guys. I… Continue reading

Daily Prompt

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August 16, 2025

From South Central to Wherever the Pavement Runs 🥷 — A Hood Chronicle

THE BLADE South Central – Past Ten A strip of Figueroa that, in daylight, is just another stretch in South Central — schools, mechanic shops, liquor stores. The women — ladies of the night, the blade’s own night shift — are there too, scattered like shadows in daylight. At night, those shadows grow and overtake… Continue reading

Hood Chronicles

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About Me

I’m Roberto Sanchez — illustrator, writer, and delivery driver in Los Angeles.

By day, I sell plastic bags out of a van across South Central.

By night, I draw, write, and build my life brick by brick.

I graduated from Cal State Long Beach in 2022 with a BFA in Illustration, but art has never been just school to me. It’s survival, reflection, and expression. My illustrations come slow — patience is part of the work.

I live and create out of a converted garage.

That small room became Echoes of the Garage — the place where I put words, drawings, and the pieces of a life I’m rebuilding one step at a time.

Here you’ll find journal entries, Hood Chronicles, and visual experiments that try to capture the absurd, the painful, and the human in everyday life.

This is where I put it all: drawings, words, and fragments of a life in motion.

This site is where I put it all: drawings, words, and fragments of a life in motion.

LifeInLA

“Still Coughing Like Crazy”

“The Midnight Ice Cream Truck.”

“Many Men, One Ice Cart”

“Every Shade of Purple”

From South Central to Wherever the Pavement Runs 🥷 — A Hood Chronicle