Tag: memoir
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The Miles – Issue 1: At It Again

Here it is: My big January 2023 project. The Miles are a San Diego-based rock ‘n’ roll band. I’ve written about their music before. So, imagine my unbridled glee when Mike asked me to collaborate on a comic book about the band. He wrote the words and did the initial storyboard. I took on the…
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SNOT ROCK CD Selections 002: The Miles, Live! In Palmdale

Sorry for the delay. I seem to be using my extended burnout as justification for weekend trips up and down the California coast these days. I’ve seen the Miles, a classically scrappy San Diego rock trio, about five times since they formed in 2018. In that time, their song-to-song style has veered between hefty-swag-packin’ garage…
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The Green Day Answer

These days, when people ask me who my favorite band is, I always say the same thing: “Do you want the cool answer, or the Green Day answer? “Because it’s Green Day.” It’s true. It’s partly a Bay Area pop-punk localistic loyalism, sure. It’s largely nostalgic. Mike Dirnt and I share a birthday. Counting in…
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Censured Centrist Selections: 2021 in Tunes

Introduction New Year, Still Winter 2021 shuffled in unceremoniously, wisely keeping its annual head down to avoid all those inevitable comparisons to the last fucker who careened through here. Like everyone else damned and lucky enough to cast out a fate on the face of this rock, I was both physically and spiritually frigid when…

