Me & Morton Downey Downtown 04-13-1988

 One of my few adventures on network television. Morton Downey was the
Rush Limbaugh of his age. Illustration by John Holmstrom.

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DOWNTOWN November 23, 1988 -- LIES ABOUT THE CMJ CONFERENCE

 I wrote this piece as satire, but wanted it to appear as a real report. I guess the DOWNTOWN Gods were afraid of getting sued or something, so they wrote in big letters:

SATIRE

Still they did give an intro on the front page:

NY Press OCT 7-13 1992: TOKYO GENERAL

Actually it wasn't Tokyo at all. It was a small hospital in a hick suburb... Soubudai to be exact. I was the only foreigner in the Japanese hospital... And here's the story:

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Mykel's MRR Column for July 2003 or "He Touched Me"

 

MYKEL'S July 2003 Column or "He Touched Me!"

  YOU'RE WRONG.. 

MYKEL'S July 2003 Column

OR

He Touched Me

by Mykel Board

DOWNTOWN SEPT 31, 1988 -- SCUMROCK

 Mark Rentzer once told me that I named Scumrock. It was an aw-shucks, yeah-right moment. Then I found this and think he might have been right. 

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Downtown Oct 21, 1992 "World of Cover Bands"

 WORD... A visit to coverband city
     by Mykel Board

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BLISTER Mag, #2 1982 Mykel's Interview

 Here's an interview I did for BLISTER FANZINE in 1982... Seems it was still ART times. Photos by (RIP) David Svilken of the YOUNG AND THE USELESS