Mykel & Morton... On the Morton Downey show... 20 seconds

Here's a true story... I guess maybe the best thing about it is the cover by John Holmstrom.

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This entire paper is for sale through Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010L31X7O

Starwars in Zineland Downton Newspaper 10-26-88

This was another one I did on zines.

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Oh yeah, I'm also selling this on Amazon. Maybe the following link will work: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010KWO09E

Testors & Blessed 1978 Greenwich Village News

Here's another one for the Greenwich Village News:

Guilt of An English Teacher (Transitions Abroad 9-98)

This one generated some controversy... from foreign students of all places:

Cavalier Magazine August 1977, Mykel is rejected from a Sperm Bank

The name of this piece is ONLY NORMAL

10 Bands They Wouldn't DARE Let Play at the New Music Seminar

Here's another one from DOWNTOWN (7-20-88) It's about the bands they wouldn't DARE let play for CMJ affair.

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DOWNTOWN Oct 7, 1992 The Japanese Hernia Operation

IN THE NEW YORK PRESS October 7, 1992

This one was also published (in a bit different form) in MRR

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Downtown Nov. 30 1988 What REALLY Happened At the CMJ Conference

They had to write SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE all over this. I guess they were afraid that people would believe it!

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Ripper 1981... the letter to the editor that started it all

I had seen an interview in Ripper fanzine. It was with a guy named TIM YOHANNON who had a radio show called MAXIMUM ROCK'N'ROLL. I thought Tim came off as an asshole, and I wrote a letter saying so. It was printed in this issue:

Tim Yohannon contacted me after reading the letter, inviting me to write for MRR. I agreed, "as long as you print whatever I write."

"It's a deal," said Tim. We were friends from then on. I saw him whenever I visited San Fransisco.

Here's the Ripper letter. Click on it if you can't see the whole thing.

Tim's wishes were respected by editors after his death, until Mariam Bastani took over. At that time I was fired for a column, after being promised "we'll tell you if there's anything we object to."

This was two years ago. The editors have changed, but Tim's wishes go unrespected.

AND I'M STILL PISSED ABOUT IT!

If you'd like, you can write to the current editorial cabal: mrr@maximumrocknroll.com And tell them what you think.

In 1978 I predicted the death of punk...

Here's an article from 1978. If you can't see the whole page, click on it. Then you can enlarge it to whatever size is convenient.

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