Hell’s Angel: An Interview with Sonny Barger

Written by None - Do not Delete on May 30, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Interview by John Strausbaugh & Don Gilbert Hell’s Angel In 1957, when 18-year-old Ralph "Sonny" Barger and some friends started a Hell’s Angels club in Oakland, CA, they were unaware at first that there were already Hell’s Angels clubs elsewhere in the state. In short order those disparate groups knit together, and though he claims
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Evel Knievel, Fragile American Hero

Written by Don Gilbert on May 16, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Evel Knievel, An American Hero by Ace Collins (St. Martins Press, 222 pages, $23.95) It’s difficult to believe that this book was edited, as opposed to merely spellchecked. The narrative reads like paraphrased accounts gleaned from several videotapes and magazine articles, and the few direct quotes in the book are duly credited to their secondary
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Truck-Stop Whores and Racoon Bones: A Novel Excerpt

Written by J.T. Leroy on May 4, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Glad holds the raccoon bone over my head like a halo. “I have a little something for your own protection,” he says, leaning down over me so close that I can’t help but stare up at the brown patches of skin that mottle the pure whiteness of his face. “Glad, you look like you’re sharecroppin’
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ET Go Home: The UFO Racket

Written by Alan Cabal on April 4, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

ET Go Home The UFO crowd reminds me of an encounter I had with some New Jersey state troopers back in the early 70s. I’d hitchhiked up to the Watkins Glen festival with my buddy Terry to see the Dead, the Band and the Allman Brothers. It was a very unsettling experience. An estimated 600,000
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Dating Like a Man

Written by None - Do not Delete on March 14, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Date Like A Man by Tanya Richardson and Lisa LeeKing We’ve been called "guys" more than once. Just the other day after a Dead Moon show (great Portland band, FYI) Lisa was asked how the drummer got water to splash up from the skins every time he hit them. Heimlich walked into the office right
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William S. Burroughs Goes Soft

Written by Jim Knipfel on March 7, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs Edited by James Grauerholz (Grove Press, 273 pages, $25) I always liked the idea of William Burroughs much more than I liked actually reading him. Nevertheless, I have a reasonably complete library of his books, and most all the John Giorno recordings he made. I still
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The Myth of the Ecological Indian

Written by William Bryk on February 15, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

The Ecological Indian: Myth and History by Shepard Krech III (W.W. Norton, 318 pages, $27.95) Krech argues this image revived the 18th-century notion of the noble savage with an alteration suited to the times: now, Native Americans did not pollute their environment. Indeed, they possessed a peculiarly integrated relationship with their natural environment, marked by
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Alien Cooking and Other Strange Phenomena

Written by Alan Cabal on January 25, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Borderlands by Mike Dash (the Overlook Press, 518 pages, $27.95) I have never seen Bigfoot. I have never seen anything even remotely resembling any kind of extraterrestrial contraption in the sky. No little grays, no hail of toads or minnows, no crop circles, no phone calls from the dead. On New Year’s Eve in Charnita,
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Studying American Propaganda Films

Written by Jim Knipfel on January 11, 2000. Posted in Books, Posts

Mental Hygiene by Ken Smith (Blast Books, 240 pages, $24.95) I went into driver’s ed with a head full of stories my sister had told me about the horror films they’d be showing us–Highways of Agony, Mechanized Death, Last Prom and the like. We’d get to see real pictures of real human brains splattered across
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Un-Stiffing the Mystiques

Written by Douglas Davis on December 21, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

For a few hours I am scared, on cue. Just the day before I’d been on the phone with Susan Faludi, whose latest book sets out to convince me the old ideas of virility and maleness are in danger. She called it Stiffed, as in failed, not victorious (William Morrow & Company, 662 pages, $27.50).
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