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.
