rust belt gothic
With the rust belt states playing such a conspicuous role in the U.S. presidential election, I've been thinking about my own roots — and exodus from said parts. I was born and raised in rural southwest Ohio, went to college in Michigan and lived in Dayton for roughly seven years. On 8/8/88 Chris Green, Shannon Clair Young and myself loaded our vehicles and drove west until we could drive no further. On 8/13/88 we landed in San Francisco. Two months later we were joined by Eri
instant karma cannot get you
Like it has with a lot of people, an event this past week here in the US of A has my thoughts spinning — and my better self wrestling with the urge to post vicious opinion. Then I remembered another election 24 years ago…
I had been in San Francisco three years, the country and the city were in recession and the mood was tense. I was in an indie rock band called Myself a Living Torch. (Someone said it was the most pretentious band name they'd ever heard. I didn't disagree. T
