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These are selected articles I published before I started teaching and writing fiction; mostly they're about work, and a little bit about the lengths people will go to find excitement, even when there's excitement waiting at home.
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Aug 29, 2001. Cover.
Looking for something out of the ordinary to do this Labor Day weekend? Visit Burning Man! It’s the underground event of the year! Just ask Melanie Warner of Fortune magazine, who calls the event “a non-stop carnival” and the “cyber-generation’s answer to Woodstock.” Find out how Business Week’s Vicky Rubin, while living it up at this “week-long bacchanal,” realized that Chairman Mao was wrong when he said, “Revolution is not an invitation to a party.”
fuck burning man
bring that flying saucer back home
San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 27, 2001
It's the job of the faux finisher to temporarily satisfy the whims of the extremely wealthy. Whatever mirage they want us to create, we'll conjure it up with smiles as false as our finish. We've covered laundry room walls with fake marble meant to recall old Tuscany. We've gold-leafed bathroom ceilings, a job that invariably send us home sneezing up 24-karat gold snot...