A note for gun rights proponents: the expiration of the last assault weapons ban coincided with the Patriot Act. We have had no assault weapons ban since then, and in that time we get kill lists, suspension of habeas corpus, and indefinite detention. There is no correlation between access to [...]

In the drum-up to writing The American Book of the Dead, I became very immersed in conspiracy theories. I love them – a mixture of fiction and real life that may just be true, giving the story a greater weight than many works of fiction. I especially love UFO conspiracies, [...]

New song.

How to be the wind You take your mind off

She is a wave And she departed She is the way It all started

How do you begin When it’s all over Do you go on And grow older?

What if your skin Has no shoulder To park or to drive And grow older

How do you win When you’ve got eye on Everything [...]

There are six writers who made me want to become a writer: Richard Yates, Philip K. Dick, Bukowski, Kerouac, Henry Miller, and Harry Crews.  I’ve read everything I could by him.  Back in the nineties, my then-girlfriend had a friend in his writing class in Gainesville, FL.  We made the [...]

Amazingly, Daniel Pinchbeck responded to some of my criticisms on Facebook and Reality Sandwich (reposting his status update). He’s been hugely influential on my writing and worldview over the last ten years. My response to his post here.

As a long-time fan of Lou Barlow who’s been instrumental in my musical upbringing, I found these interviews really amazing. Like listening to “Bakesale” kind of amazing. Covers his upbringing, early days of Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh – and fuck-ups along the way. That’s the amazing [...]