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Going Sober
I don’t know if this decision has been months or years, or even decades in the making, but I do know that there has been a definite shift in my thinking. To stop drinking that is. I don’t pretend that...
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America, What Have You Done?
America has just done the unthinkable. Somehow, against all better sense, and in opposition to almost every single poll and predicative data model, it has elected as its next president, a man who has...
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2016 is a thing of the past. Let’s leave it behind.
2016 was a tough one for many of us. I know it was for me. The pop icon death toll was heavy. Bowie’s passing took me out at the knees. Prince and Leonard Cohen rocked me pretty hard as well, but we...
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An Open Letter to Donald Trump
Dear Mr. Trump – Congratulations on your ascendancy to the presidency. You did it: you managed to con your way into the highest office in the land and you broke new records in doing it – not the...
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The Best Films of 2016 – My 2017 List of Favorites
As is usually the case, attempting to shave my list down to only ten titles can prove challenging, and perhaps it was made a bit easier this year as there are several Oscar nominees that I have still...
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Chris Cornell – Tears to Forget
We’ve dealt with this before, and every time we find ourselves confronted with this sad and seemingly meaningless experience—that of a singular talent being taken off of this earth unexpectedly early—I...
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Remembering Old Histories and Saying Goodbye
It’s been less than a week since Chris died, and as has been the case on too many occasions before this, I find myself trying to find meaning in a senseless event that will never provide me with one....
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Desert Diary – September 3, 2017
It’s been 8 months since we sold the house in Eagle Rock and began renting a friend’s condo in Los Angeles with the assumption that we’d be there for a year to eighteen months. That was the time we...
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I’m a white guy, Rape Culture is real, and I’m feeling angry
How do I write about our culture of rape, sexual harassment, child molestation and the degree to which there is an acceptance of these activities as being normal in our society? How do I write about...
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Pippa is Gone and My Heart is Crushed
For weeks my heart has been breaking. Today it has finally been ground down to dust. We just put our sweet baby of almost fifteen years to rest, and while I know that Pippa is in a more peaceful place,...
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Waking Up to Playing Again
My last show with Skin Yard was on Thursday, Feb 21, 1991 opening for NoMeansNo at the Off Ramp in Seattle. Leaving the band had been a deeply bittersweet decision on my part. My entire identity had...
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An interview with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Part 1)
Many years ago, I created a music dating site called RocknRollDating. It was around for six years or so, and would probably still be active had GoDaddy (the company that I paid to host it) not decided...
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Super Tuesday & the Intervention of the DNC
Super Tuesday was—for many of us I think—an event that ended somewhere between disappointment and frustration. The DNC played their cards well and thanks to Klobuchar and O’Rourke, the night handed a...
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An interview with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Part 2)
Many years ago, I created a music dating site called RocknRollDating. It was around for six years or so, and would probably still be active had GoDaddy (the company that I paid to host it) not decided...
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