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JohnNo

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About Me

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My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

If you have a bunch of bullshit, extraneous HTML on your page that makes my mac freeze up, you will never be my friend.

Music:

farts at midnight, under the covers

Movies:

delta force

Books:

i made it through college and only read pdf's

Heroes:

not you.

My Blog

NO, July 2007 - All My Favorite Bands Break Up Too Soon

Why do so many good bands break up so quickly these days? Every few months, an amazing band comes along and sets my head to spinning, then just as quickly they are gone  even if they had real momentu...
Posted by JohnNo on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:35:00 PST

NO, June 2007 - Acid Punk psych explosion

[psst. If you are in the Bay Area and bored this sunday, you should go to see Fleshies with Bobby Joe Ebola (reunion) and Dory Tourette+Skirtheads (reunion) and Hey Girl and Robocop 3 at 924 Gilman St...
Posted by JohnNo on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:29:00 PST

MaximumRockNRoll NO Column archives posted here...

So brows around, if you wanna. Or don't. See if I care!
Posted by JohnNo on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:08:00 PST

NO March 07 - More ranting about the insurance industry from a stinky idealogue

Yes, another election is right around the corner, and once again the main candidates are not directly addressing longstanding questions of health care and medical insurance in the United States. It is...
Posted by JohnNo on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:07:00 PST

NO, February 2007: Race comments, cont.

My column this month is short, simply a response to a good question from Dolf in Germany (of TRUST zine) with regard to the debate on race in this space a few months ago&More new stuff next month!From...
Posted by JohnNo on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:52:00 PST

NO, January 2007: Shrinky dinks

I recently jumped headfirst into the odd, odd world of getting a shrink. Despite being a punk for around 15 years, clinging desperately to long-held rejections of organized religion and the less-appea...
Posted by JohnNo on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:32:00 PST

NO, November 2006: 5 things

I know, I know, I know..it's not punk. I don't care. All I want to write about right now is the midterm election, and I don't care if I don't sound like a radical. National politics are not radical ri...
Posted by JohnNo on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:30:00 PST

NO, October 2006 - W. Oakland and the Culture Wars continued...

Last month..s column on West Oakland gentrification and the culture wars drew a pretty big response. Assumedly, this is due to the fact that many (if not most) of the punk-types who live in big cities...
Posted by JohnNo on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:19:00 PST

NO, September 2006 - West Oakland and the culture wars

[this was edited after a few facts came to light on 09/15, thanks to my lil' source]Pine Street is a popular punk house in West Oakland. It is owned by a black man and longtime Oakland resident, who h...
Posted by JohnNo on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:59:00 PST

NO, April 2006 - Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits

Maximum Rock n' Roll magazine is infamous for having a goodly clutch of columnists who frequently write about their own bands. I don't see a problem with this, as much of the magazine is dedicated to ...
Posted by JohnNo on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:18:00 PST