BIRDS IN ROW (Deathwish Inc, from France!!)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Birds-in-row/196142597110865

HEARTLESS (Southern Lord, members of Reel Big Fish)
http://www.facebook.com/heartlesspgh

CLOUD RAT (Detroit Grindcore)
http://cloudrat.blogspot.com/

RABID PIGS

Sam McPheeters was born in Lorain, Ohio in 1969. He is the former lead singer of Born Against, Men’s Recovery Project, and Wrangler Brutes, and the founder of Vermiform Records. His columns, essays, profiles, and short stories have appeared in The American Prospect, Chicago Reader, OC Weekly, Punk Planet, The Stranger, Vice, and The Village Voice. He lives in Pomona, CA with his wife. The Loom Of Ruin is his first published novel.

About the book Loom of Ruin

Trang Yang is an angry, angry, angry man, neurologically incapable of any emotion but rage. He’s also L.A.’s most successful gas station franchise owner. But no one can quite seem to figure out what makes him tick. Not the LAPD, who have long since granted him full immunity. Not his boss, who scrutinizes him with covert psychologists. Not the corporate spies who infiltrate his stations. And certainly not the encroaching FBI, who know only that Trang is involved in something big and dangerous and that time is running out. The first three chapters can be read here.

This program or event is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

New windows for one of our homes were delivered the other day, we’ll hopefully have these installed in the next couple of weeks.

It’s always nice to get something in the post office box (hint hint) that isn’t a bill and the other day we got a copy of Rachel Atcheson‘s latest zine, Una Mescla. The zine contains a brief interview she did with me about the intentional community which hopefully sheds a little insight in to our mission and outlook. The zine was also a nice reminder of what a small world punk can be, Una Mescla includes contributions from friends and occasional guests of ours: Jen Twigg of the Ambulars, Jake McDaniel who just helped us finish the miniramp, and Chris Moore who runs Venomous Ideas. If you would like a copy you can write to rachelatcheson@gmail.com. Below is one of the questions I answered: