Everything here with a few exceptions was typed up in a single draft directly into my phone and is a work in progress. I’m constantly reading back over older pieces to correct spelling and grammar mistakes, add more variety to the words being used and occasionally fill in details I’ve remembered since first writing or correct erroneous information.
Only those last couple things can really be classified as “new content” and I decided to start keeping a log of those changes in case any readers might want to look things back over.
July 24th, 2024 : Proofread and made small changes to The Problem of the Burzum Shirt, Michigan 2007 : “We can’t play, somebody stepped on our flan” and San Diego 2002 : “Watch your tongue you Terran dog!”
July 7th, 2024 : I cleaned up some grammar stuff and details and added a final parenthetical caveat to Riverside : 2004 “We’re going to be good right?”
October 12, 2023 : I added a paragraph about Thrones and The Rapture to Los Angeles 2000 : “It’s where Jay Leno Lives”. I added a paragraph about the band Emperor to San Diego 2000 : “I Put That Baby Where The Sun Don’t Shine” and a clarification on being “all paid up for a bed burning”
October 17, 2023 : I added details about a police encounter in The Bus Part One : “This Beer This Rock” and corrected the order of some paragraphs about a morel mushroom in The Bus Part Two : “We know when we’re not wanted”
October 18, 2023 : I added more descriptive details about a Bleak End performance in Maine 2012 : “Any last words? Yeah, eat shit!”
October 25, 2023 : I went back over the two part haunted house story of 2009 and made minor changes to some of the wording.
October 31, 2023: I did some cleanup and adding details to the first two bits of Trains, Talismans and Juggalos. Mostly the second one but I did change both.
October 31, 2023: Minor changes and corrections to Chicago 2001 Halloween special
November 1, 2023 : Small changes to Land of NOD : Hot Dogs and Mojitos, Twentynine Palms : Lord don’t let them fuck around and give me Diego. Mostly minor changes on Odds and Ends from Mostly America and New York : Play something slow and sexy
November early – I changed the ending of wounded dove of Gothenburg completely. All is in order, there is pink salt now along the Columbarium. Rejoice!
November 6, 2023: I changed the image for Chicago 1999 : I wish dog I wish to one of the trading cards from Steve’s paintings and added details about first meeting Chicago friends in California and some old gossip about early and eventually resolved tensions in the band GoGoGo Airheart.
November 8, 2023 : I added a picture of Justin that Vanessa Harris sent me to Chicago 2000 : Spidermammal and fixed some grammar while adding a few random details.
November 19, 2023: I finally made an attempt to clean up and add to the expository piece Los Angeles 1999 : Adventures in the Undiscovered Interior of Underground America.
December 7, 2023: I added some paragraphs about punk house drama and my brief religious awakening in Los Angeles 2011 : Death Where is Thy Sting
December 20, 2023 : I added photos to some El Rancho stories that lacked them and changed some of the featured images from random objects that appear in those stories to actual images of El Rancho and its residents.
I also added quite a few new paragraphs and details to Cabazon 2017 : A Garbage Bag Full of Dessicated Flesh
January 24, 2024: I changed some wording and added details to Chicago 2001 : “Number one you punk! Number two you Jew! Number three you gay!”
February 5th, 2024 : I changed some wording around and added a few paragraphs about Universal Studios Hollywood to Los Angeles 2000 : “It’s where Jay Leno lives”
March 2nd, 2024 : This is actually the second time I added to San Diego 2001 : “I like to call it a pack of moments” but I didn’t record it the first time around. The first edit went into more detail contrasting my portrayal of a homeless person flying a sign in a Super 8 student film with real life experiences being and doing that. The new edit adds details and anecdotes surrounding a woman shaped building in Tijuana called La Mona.
June 24th, 2024 : I gave “Columbia, Missouri 2008 : “Wait, that isn’t a quarter cup yet!” a grammatical overhaul and added or jazzed up details too numerous to remember or mention. I was truly a happier person before I figured out that “its” as in “it belongs to it” does not have an apostrophe while the contractions for “it is” and “it has” do. Sadly the knowledge now burdens me and I see my shame everywhere I look. I used to teach English for Christ’s sake!
June 30th, 2024 : I just cleaned up Tijuana 2014 : “Amor es Palabra” and added a paragraph about Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 3. Also this will be the last one of these I add to the bottom like this. I’m just realizing some obvious blog organization stuff – I added a search bar for example. I’m not reordering these old updates but new ones will go on top.
Keep checking back to this page for a log of future edits.
Adventures in the Undiscovered Interior of Underground America 