Suckdog A Ruckus by Lisa Carver

[Printed Matter] Suckdog: A Ruckus an autobiographical look back through this new book from Lisa Carver by Reviewer Rob I’ve always liked career retrospectives. There’s something cathartic in a vicarious sense with experiencing an artist’s life work retrospective. Greatest hits CDs, autobiographies, documentary videos about someone at the end of a long and satisfying career — I like it when […]

[excerpt] BLOOD SILVER by Ben Johnson

[Forthcoming] Your Sister’s A Spy by Ben Johnson (Editor’s note: this is an extract from Ben’s upcoming book Blood Silver. It’s his second novel in what looks to be an ongoing dramatic series involving crime and supernatural happenings in the modern-day San Diego suburban canyons and neighborhoods of Mission Hills and is about ‘what ties all things together’, is due […]

dual show reviews: Jose Sinatra, and Faking The Plunge Into Porn

Jose Sinatra, and Faking The Plunge Into Porn how did it all sink to this? by Bob Yunger Jose Sinatra, real name Bill Richardson, age 62, began his act in 1982 and had reached local legend status by 1994 when he appeared in “Hitchhiker Joe”, an awful Rugburns video, along with future music scene siren Jewel Kilcher. The Hose, as he […]

three new book reviews

[Books and other printed matter] Actually two graphic book reviews from one artist/author, a novel from a San Diego writer, and a self-published book of short stories from Australia, but also a high-priced quarterly mainstream periodical and a xeroxed folded handout from Vegas Not Really Just Three Book Reviews by Reviewer Rob Cochlea & Eustachia, and Folly, by Hans Rickhiet […]