The On The Lower Frequencies book tour continues on the West Coast this week with the following shows… The On The Lower Frequencies book tour continues on the West Coast this week with the following shows. JUNE 26 PORTLAND, OR @ READING FRENZY JUNE 27 SEATTTLE, WA @ LEFT BANK BOOKS JUNE 28 OLYMPIA, WA [...]
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Erin Yanke of KBOO’s excellent Circle A Radio show and Life During Wartime audio zine fame has produced a 30 minute interview with me about the book. The segment also features a reading from the book about the 949 Market space. The interview aired on KBOO on June 11 on KBOO’s homelessness issues show, Hole [...]
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I got the new batch of Kombucha going and the last of this crap up on the web and I am OUT THE DOOR! Looking ahead to 95 degrees and Coney Island tomorrow in NYC! For tour dates on my East Coast tour with Cindy Crabb of Doris zine, click here… See you soon!
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Sadly, I’ll be out of town (in Baltimore on first day of tour) but I’m glad folks are taking it to Newsom’s house again. Ole Gav is no longer way up in Pac Heights, off Divis in that little condo thing I wrote about in the book. His new digs are in a luxury apartment [...]
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Liam O’Donoghue from Indy Media did this Q and A with me for the Guardian. I think it came out OK… Lit: Erick Lyle on rehab for Newsom and SF, the awful flair of Willie Brown, book box mansions and life in the City This week’s Lit features a review of Erick Lyle’s new book [...]
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As the cops — with their sticks out — tried to rush inside the venue, where THE JUDY EXPERIENCE was playing, a bunch of us formed a sort-of human wall to try to keep them at bay. As I stood chest to chest with the ranking cop, arguing in each other’s faces heatedly, I thought, [...]
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SF artist, and I have, at last, finished the epic project of making box sets out of the zines from Rigo’s 2007 exhibition Backtrackin’ 199485! Last year, for an exhibition at the Luggage Store Gallery in san Francisco, Rigo made nine enormous paintings of events in semi-recent Bay Area political history (between 1985 and 1994) that influenced his development as a political artist in some way. The subjects of the paintings included protesters taking over the Bay Bridge in the 1991 Gulf War Protests, the explosion of Judi Bari’s car, the first Critical Mass bike rides in downtown SF, the murder of Huey Newton in West Oakland, and the ongoing harassment of Food Not Bombs by SFPD. Rigo asked me to make a 40-page zine to accompany each painting that would include historical information about the events depicted in the paintings. Now, we have collected the zines together in a limited edition box set and included a 10th zine with pictures of the art from the show and writing about the show by Rigo and I. You get about 400 pages of lost radical history all for ONLY $20!
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As often happens, I got the new issue of SCAM out in time for the annual Anarchist Book Fair in Golden Gate Park this year. This issue focuses on the community of stencil graffiti artists I met and talked — and painted — with during the months I spent living in Buenos Aires. The zine [...]
Here’s the recent sfbg cover story on freight hopping writers and photographers… Outside of a small Central Florida town, I hopped my first freight train in spring 1993, in a place that seemed even then to be somehow outside of time. My first train sat on a siding behind a drive-in theater along old Highway [...]
Just found out today we are going to play with Martin and Limp Wrist at Gilman in Berkeley on the 6th of July. Not sure if the records will be done by then, though. Record release/Tour kickoff will be at The Stud in SF on July 10, details TBA