NoosePapers

I am Sunday journalist - never on staff, always free-lance, usually not in it for the money, though emolument is certainly welcome. I usually do not take up the digital quill until there is something I feel needs to be said. I have written for a number of newspapers, including The San Francisco Examiner, The Weekly Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg), The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The New Mission News (its editor, Victor Miller, may he RIP), The Black Rock Gazette, as well as other periodicals: Processed World, Rough Draft (newsletter of the San Francisco Cacophony Society) and The Philip K. Dick Society Newsletter.

For several years, I had a book review column in the Bay Guardian, discussing new works of "speck lit" - speculative literature, a euphemism for science fiction, fantasy, burgeoning cyberculture and anything else that crossed my moat of imagination. For a time I wrote feature articles for the Guardian, until lean times forced them to dispense with free-lancers on my end of the food chain.

Literary publications include The San Francisco Review of Books, Exquisite Corpse, darknerve, Bastard Angel, Rampike, Scavenger's Newsletter, The Punk Surrealist Café, Rolling Stock, Watch, and other increasingly obscure journals.

Next will come a webliography of purely web-based zines like Posthoc where I have published film crit, and other sites that have posted my poetry and Burning Man meditations. Somewhere out there are even some Library-related musings and advice by moi.

Probably the most flak I have received in recent years was for my Post-Burning Man commentary published in the Guardian in 2000. Which is cool, since an inquisitive writer should be...a fly in the ointment of complacency.

Bar none - the story of Chicken John and the Odeon Bar, another at-risk San Francisco outpost of cultural import.

What are some of the cooler things to do in San Francisco? Here are 7 reasons why I like to make this my home.

The first feature piece I wrote for the Guardian was an encomium to Laughing Squid in the spring of 2001.

A Bridge Too Near - is a new bridge proposed to cross Islais Creek on Illinois St. necessary? And at what cost to San Francisco culture? Go here for updates on this space.

BackFile (post-new journalism and other brag-links)