Canal St.
#redeye #newyork #coffee #wakeup
#redeye #newyork #coffee #wakeup
Pain train coming through… (at Figueroa Street Tattoo Company)
This is how an ‘80s kid celebrates his birthday. #halp
Black Flag at Polliwog Park
One of the surprises to come out of my research for the book
I’m collaborating on with Keith Morris is this little gem: In 1979 Black Flag
played a show at Polliwog Park in Manhattan Beach, CA. They got the gig by
telling the promoter they were a light jazz band that played Fleetwood Mac
covers. Naturally the crowd hated them and the stories of the near-riot that
broke out are legendary, especially in Manhattan Beach where I lived for a
number of years. I didn’t realize until very recently that this show took place
on July 22—my birthday. Rip it up while
you can, brothers and sisters. AS my friend JJ used to say, we’re here for a good time, not for a long time.
Wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round…
Great interview in BOMB with Magnus Mills a novelist and full-time bus driver who has recently completed a book about competing record collecting societies. An excerpt:
MB How does a writer like you end up as a bus driver?
MM All sorts of people end up as bus drivers. I was talking to a guy at my garage this morning, and it turned out he used to be in a moderately successful ’80s band that had a couple of hits and supported Blur on their first tour. Now he’s a bus driver.
Save the Date!
Vermin on the Mount will celebrate its 11th anniversary next month in Los Angeles and San Diego with
Sean H. Doyle, Shanna Mahin, Joshua Mohr,
Wendy C. Ortiz, Patrick O’Neil, Jennifer Pashley and J Ryan Stradal. Don’t be bitten!
Cat sitting in Hollywood.
BASEBALL: Hobart Handbooks
I’m thrilled to have an essay in this new, lavishly illustrated anthology of baseball writing put out by Hobart Handbooks. It’s got a ton of great writing by some of my favorite writers like Elizabeth Ellen, Tod Goldberg and Kevin Maloney. My essay is about witnessing the Dodgers’ historic run in 2013 with a friend battling a life-threatening illness. (The excellent illustration by Nick Francis Potter references the homemade Yasiel Puig lunchbox mentioned in the essay, which I really did make!) Get yourself a copy today.
