I have a couple readings out west this October. I am excited to go back to the Olympia Public Library and for the second year in a row, I am happy to be part of San Francisco’s city-wide literary blowout, LitQuake. Ivy and I will also be playing music at the LitQuake event. More info [...]
Many longtime readers of Scam Magazine will remember John Dania, the only columnist to appear in all of the first four issues of SCAM. Some might especially remember John’s writing about punk rock scuba diving exploration in “Dive The Chaos”, his column for issue #2. John is still diving, but is now known to the [...]
I have added a couple new reading dates in support of the new issue of SCAM and the anthology, SCAM: THE FIRST FOUR ISSUES. At the Portland gig, I will be joining Japanther onstage to add some guitar to their mix for a couple songs, too. Come check it out! September 5 PITTSBURGH, PA @ [...]
On our recent reading tour of the North East, Jeff Miller and I stopped in and read at Red Emma’s, Baltimore’s only anarchist and worker-owned cafe. The staff kindly recorded the event and put the audio up on their website, so you can check out Jeff and I reading as if we were reading to [...]
I am going on a short reading tour this month with my old friend, Jeff Miller, the writer behind Canada’s best and longest-running zine, Ghost Pine. Jeff and I are celebrating the release of brand new anthologies of the old issues of our zines. We will also have the pleasure of reading with other old [...]
The new issue of Scam is finally finished and out in the world. This issue is 64-pages and has a three-color cover I letter-pressed myself with help from the generous folks at The Arm here in Brooklyn. This action-packed issue is about my trip back to my hometown of Miami as a reporter to cover [...]
SCAM readers and Black Rainbow/Allergic To Bullshit fans are no doubt familiar with the exploits of my best friend and longtime co-conspirator, Ivy Jeanne McClelland. This month, Ivy had planned to go to Haiti to work on a film she was making about pioneering Haitian woman activist, Magalie Marcelin. Ivy was to stay with her [...]
In December, I returned to Miami to cover Art Basel Miami Beach for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and to check out the mammoth art fair’s effects on my hometown. Miami, still the poorest city in the nation and now chock full of half-empty condos, has sought to reinvent itself by linking itself to the [...]
I’m back in the Bay for a minute and am happy to announce I have a couple cool reading gigs while I’m here in town. Friday, October 16, I will be appearing with Layla Gibbon from Maximum Rock and Roll and John Marr from Murder Can Be Fun at a Litquake panel discussion on the [...]
At last, the Onion Flavored Rings pile in the mini-van with all-star roadie, Erin Yanke, and head out in late September on our first nationwide tour since 2005. We are celebrating the imminent release of our new 7″, Funny, on Thrillhouse Records and are looking forward to some great looking shows with friends like Rvivr, [...]