Bowling Club Strikes Students

This article was published in my high school's newspaper, Crossroads, November 12, 1999.

Puff Daddy - Forever?

This was an album review I wrote for my high school newspaper, Crossroads on October 1, 1999.

There were some who disagreed with my review. I remember when this letter to the editor came in, Crossroads staff members were talking about it like I would be upset or something, and I was just like, well, they are allowed their opinion and the purpose of the letters page is to print readers opinions. Printed Nov 12, 1999.

Tips Offer Advice for Personal Recordings

This article was published in the October 29 1999 issue of Crossroads, my high school's newspaper.

Graffitti Cameo in Transmetropolitan # 23

Transmetropolitan was a cool DC comic series written by Warren Ellis and penciled by Darick Robertson. The series followed Spider Jerusalem, s Hunter S. Thompson-esque journalist, in a bizarre future world. Jerusalem would do weird drugs and expose political corruption. The series has become a bit of a classic, with the trade paperbacks continually in print.

During the series run, both Ellis and Robertson were active in the online message boards for the comic. Robertson would often work online screen names into the comic as street graffitti tags. In almost every issue, "Free Steve Chung" was written in on a sidewalk. Steve Chung wrote so many letters to the creators, that they figured he must be chained up somewhere writing these letters.

At the time, I used an e-mail address for a band I liked, Filter, and would close e-mails with a qoute from one of the bands songs, "Hey Man Nice Shot." In issue #23, Robertson worked my screenname into the comic. Very cool.
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Chronos Comic Book Letter to the Editor

Being a comic fan from an early age, I would often write letters to the editor. DC comic's Chronos, a comic series about a time-traveling villain, decided to print my letter in issue #5.

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Bunny Award: List of Things I Hate

This was my first published writing. It was a letter to the editor of Wizard magazine, a magazine about comic books. Apparently the editor liked it so much he made it the letter of the month, and thus the Bunny Award.


The Letter reads:

Dear Wizard,
This is a list of things I hate: Everything on MTV except the music videos, stupid comic fans who have no life, people who think that the X-Men is 'fantasy' (try Stephen King's Dark Tower saga if you want real fantasy), turning Venom into a good guy, Trekkies and the Iron Man vs. X-Men debate. Oh, yeah- that that 'Champagne Supernova song.'"

The editors response:

"Y'know, we did something kind of like this at my old job. Everyone would post Lists of Love on one wall and we'd post our Lists of Hate on the opposite wall. Every year on January 1, we'd tear down the old lists and put new ones up. It was a nice was to get some anger out in a socially acceptable way, and we all got a good laugh at the same time. Personally, I hate everything on MTV including music videos, but I love stupid comic fans who have no life. THey keep me in business. And yes, 'Champagne Supernova' sucks serious sour frog-ass. If I hear one more person compare Oasis to The Beatles, I'm gonna hit them in the mouth with a hocky stick. So, any Lists of Love out there?"