[Correspondence] Analog Mail, 1999 I’ve been diving into the Reviewer archives of late and in one box of manilla envelopes I seem to have struck a vein of pre-millennial postcards and other mail. It’s people’s forgotten PR notices, tour schedules, payments for small ads, and other things like interview requests and general fluff mail. Interesting to reminisce about. […]
Letters, Postcards, & Money in The Mail
book review: Shark In The Housing Pool
[Book Review] SHARK IN THE HOUSING POOL by Matthew B. Cox, 2016, paperback 330 pages, contact.matthew.cox@gmail.com I’m reading this right now. It’s a 2016 memoir from a formerly incarcerated federal ex-con named Matthew Cox who was featured on American Greed. He made lots of money by ingeniously concocting fake identities that he patched together from the social security numbers he […]
Merging Flesh and Machine?
[Podcasts That Inspire] The Singularity of the Current Age Of AI ‘The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 non-fiction book about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. The book builds on the ideas introduced in Kurzweil’s previous books, The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990) and The Age of Spiritual […]
Athletic Wear Solutions
[Fashion: Surf Shorts Pockets?] Danny Essex of JumpBall Apparel Danny Essex of JumpBall Apparel is interviewed by me, Rob at ReviewerTV, right before the San Diego Fashion Week 2023 Spring Showcase show, April 22, Hotel Republic, downtown. I arrived to the show with plenty of time to get a good seat up front and as the crowd began filling in […]
Lester Bangs gone 41 years now
Leslie Conway “Lester” Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) The 41st anniversary of the death of rock’s greatest critic passed today, one born in Escondido and raised in El Cajon. On this day in 1982 San Diego native Lester Bangs died of overdose, leaving a huge literary legacy as a rock-and-roll journalist, critic, author, in Rolling Stone and […]
Norma Cusin, SDFW23
Introducing New Fashion Designer from Pittburgh Norma Cusin Check out the Reviewer TV interview with Miss Norma Cusin @normacusin_, a young new fashion designer from Pittsburgh. On April 22 her line was featured in San Diego Fashion Week’s 2023 Spring Showcase and she sat down for a talk with me in the upstairs bar of the Hotel Republic at 421 […]
DJ Kelly Lynch, r.i.p.
[Tribute] “I’ve Got The Power” Ruled the Floor I found out today that San Diego club DJ Kelly Lynch died last year. Heather Evans aka Mz Kitten told me. I first met DJ Kelly Lynch in the late 1980’s when he was spinning House music for Chaos Productions at an Australian-themed bar and mini brewery (before they were cool) called […]
Ms Kitten’s Scene
In 1997 Ms Kitten had a fashion show at a large venue called 4th&B in San Diego, well it was more like a freak show but we can talk about that later, and I shot it for Reviewer Magazine. I think we ran the full page black and white photo collage in issue three. I’m converting a bunch of photos […]