Tag: Ricky Williams
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WCA Podcast, Ep. 9: Patty Stirling (Puncture zine)
In this episode, I speak with Patty Stirling, writer and co-founder (along with editor-in-chief Katherine Spielman) of the zine Puncture. We talk about her initial experiences with the Bay Area punk/hardcore zine, her involvement with Puncture; her impressions of Toiling Midgets, Black Humor, Mark Pauline/Survival Research Laboratories, and Courtney Love (among others); her memories of…
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WCA Podcast, Ep. 7: Paul Wendell Draper (The Sleepers)
Sleepers bassist and founding member Paul Wendell Draper recounts the rise and fall of (for my money) the best band to come out of San Francisco in the late 1970s…even if they technically came from Palo Alto/Mountain View/Menlo Park.
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Coming in March 2023…
Late ’70s San Francisco. The Summer of Love is a hazy memory, the AIDS crisis is looming, and nearby Silicon Valley is still an obscure place where microchips are made. The City by the Bay is reeling from a string of bizarre tragedies that have earned it a new name: the “kook capital of the…