Graffiti from what’s left of The Masque in a storage facility on Cherokee in Hollywood.
In store core #off! (at Amoeba Music)
Dave Brockie Tribute at Stories Books & Cafe
This week I had the pleasure of honoring a great Virginian: Dave Brockie, the outspoken frontman for GWAR who passed away late last month. Jeff Burk and Cameron Pierce organized a tribute at Stories Books & Café and on a cold and rainy night John Skipp, Mark Levinthal, Justin Maurer and myself read for a small gathering of friends and fans. RIP Oderus Ungurus. You will be missed.
Celebrating publication day for Giving the Finger with co-workers. Crab wontons the best I could do. (at Sherman Oaks Galleria)
Giving the Finger interview at SDWI
I sat down with T.C. Porter at San Diego Writers, Ink to talk about the art and craft of memoir writing. We discuss interview stratgeies, book proposal development and the unspeakable horror of the literary life.
Razorcake #79
One of the strangest things that happened to me last year was a bout of vertigo that literally knocked me on my ass while I was in Walla Walla, Washington interviewing Scott Campbell, Jr. for our book, Giving the Finger. The whole story is in the new issue of Razorcake, which also features a rad interview with punk pop phenom Tony Molina, an oral history of East L.A. punk curated by Alice Bag, and a stunning essay by Cheryl Klein.
Giving the Finger interview at Hobart
Thank you, J.Ryan Stradal for this bracing interview at Hobart. We talk about my experience in the U.S. Navy, crab fishing in Alaska and the weirdness of the Bering Sea.
Giving the Finger excerpt in Parade.com
Before he was a star on Deadliest Catch,Scott Campbell Jr. had a rocky childhood and an even more treacherous path to becoming the captain of his own vessel. He tells his story in Giving the Finger: Risking It All to Fish the World’s Deadliest Sea.
After the deer was dressed, we’d cure it out by hanging it in the rigging. We did this with all the deer, so by the end of the hunt, we’d have a pretty impressive display. If we had a half a dozen or so men aboard, and we each got our quota, we’d come back to Kodiak with thirty to forty deer hanging in the rigging.
The Floating Library: Juliet Escoria & Bonnie ZoBell
Two new short story collections by a pair of San Diego writers.