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!
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 [...]
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 On [...]
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 [...]
SF artist, Rigo 23 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!
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. [...]
I’m excited to be heading out on tour for the book next week with Cindy Crabb. Cindy makes one of my all-time favorite zines, Doris. We were supposed to be going on tour in a veggie-oil-consuming monster truck, but, sadly — yet predictably, perhaps — it has ceased to run, so we’ll be using [...]
Thanks for checking out the site, which I hope will help get the word out about the book and also, as time goes by, serve as a repository for various pieces of new writing I’m working on. For now, the site includes info about my upcoming book tours and local events, info about the [...]