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Since the late 1970s I've been an occasional contributer to various magazines,
beginning with the student-run Providence alternative weekly
Fresh Fruit.
In the second half of 1982, The Mad Peck
and I wrote the "Video Week" TV column for another Providence alternative weekly,
The NewPaper.
My first real job was editing Key Magazine: This Week in San Francisco,
where my duties included churning out restaurant, theater, cabaret, and
comedy reviews. This job drove me back into the arms of academia. While
earning a Ph.D. in English at U.C. Berkeley, I wrote a few papers that
might still be worth reading; they're posted here and at
academia.edu.
Shortly thereafter, in the early 90s, something called the Usenet, and things called protocols,
began to introduce the world to the Internet. I thought I could sell a column
on this new phenomenon, but never got anywhere with it. Sample columns are
linked hereunder.
Simultaneously, I resumed my freelance career, notably as a reviewer,
columnist, and contributing editor for InterActivity, a now-defunct
magazine for multimedia authors. I also conducted a brief interview with
Larry Page for Wired; provided record reviews to
Music & Sound Output
and Creem;
reviewed a Shakespeare biography for the San Francisco Chronicle;
and did perhaps my best work for High Times.
Reviews & criticism
- Disarmed Forces (record review, Radio Radio, 1979)
- George Harrison: George Harrison (record review, Fresh Fruit, 1979)
- Jonathan Richman: Back in Your Life (record review, Fresh Fruit, 1979)
- Talking Heads: Fear of Music (record review, Fresh Fruit, 1979)
- At Home with the Residents (record review, with Adam Bresnick, Fresh Fruit, 1979)
- Todd Rundgren Comes Around (record review, Issues, 1981)
- Macrone's Consumer Guide (parody, xerox, 1982)
- Uptight, Short-Sighted, Narrow-Minded Hypocritics (book review, Issues, 1982)
- TV Tidbits (with The Mad Peck, The NewPaper, 1982)
- Hither and Yon (with The Mad Peck, Video Week, The NewPaper, 1982)
- Cable and Suds (with The Mad Peck, Video Week, The NewPaper, 1982)
- But Will the Antichrist Guest-Host The Tonight Show? (with The Mad Peck, Video Week, The NewPaper, 1982)
- Vidluxe Mailbag (with The Mad Peck, Video Weak, The NewPaper, 1982)
- Side by Side by Sondheim at the Plush Room (Key: This Week in San Francisco, 1984)
- Lou Reed & John Cale: Songs for ’Drella (record review, Creem, 1990)
- Too Much Joy: Cereal Killers (record review, Creem, 1991)
- Boogie Down Productions: Live Hardcore Worldwide (record review, Creem, 1991)
- Prince: D (letter, Uptown, 1993)
- Was Shakespeare Catholic? (book review, The San Francisco Chronicle, 1995)
Topics of interest
- Bound for Nowhere (with Bill Magavern, Brown Daily Herald, 1979)
- Dannon vs. Colombo: Thrilla in Vanilla (Fresh Fruit, 1980)
- The Fourth Dimension: A Dream About Time and Space (Issues, 1982)
- San Francisco Comedy (Key: This Week in San Francisco, 1984)
- When North Beach Was a Beach (Key: This Week in San Francisco, 1984)
- Straight Up & Con Panna: Guide to North Beach Bistros (Key After Dark, 1985)
- The San Francisco Search (High Times, 1985)
- Underground Comix Redux (High Times, 1985)
- Punk Magazine Revisited (Weirdo, 1986)
Scholarly essays
- How J.R. Got Out of the Air Force and What the Derricks Mean (with The Mad Peck; Conference on New Directions in Television Research, 1983)
- Naturalizing Culture : Riffaterre, “The Sick Rose,” and the Principles of Textual Production (1986)
- The “I’s” Have It : Reflections on Edmund Burke’s Reflections (1986)
- The Making of the Modern Body (book review, The Berkeley Graduate, 1987)
- Hoo! Namoore! : Theseus Stynteth al hir Grucching and Maketh hem Pleye (1987)
- Disinformation, Please! : Systems, Networks, Simulations, Bleak House, Gary Hart,
Iran-Contra, and Gravity’s Rainbow (1987)
- To Choose and Choose Not : Why Man Falls in Paradise Lost (1987)
- Do Texts Have Selves? : Paul de Man and the Consciousness of Language (1988)
- Sour Nothings : Seeing and Being Seen in Shakespeare’s Much Ado (1989)
- The Theatrical Self in Renaissance England (Qui Parle, 1989)
- Fate, Character, and Narcissism in Euripides’ Hippolytus (Tutti gli Dei Vanno Onorati conference, Siracusa, 2010)
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