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Please Kill Me (Review)

Post author By karlschmieder
Post date April 7, 2018
Categories In 100 Days of Writing, 3x5, Advertising, Book Reviews, Brooklyn, Influences, interviews, Music, NYC, Science Fiction, Writing
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Pedro Paramo is the book I’ve most given away. It’s a thin, easy to read, very influential novel. It will haunt you. The second book I’ve most given away is Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Through a series of alternating interviews, PKM traces the history of punk. From New […]

30 Things I Did Before Turning 30

Post author By karlschmieder
Post date February 20, 2017
Categories In biotechnology, Brooklyn, Influences, Marketing, Observations, Science Fiction, Skateboarding, synthetic biology, Writing

In anticipation of my 54th birthday, I answered this question on Quora: What are the 30 things you did before turning 30 in your life? Learned to skateboard ramps and pools. Memorized every ditch and was part of an informal word-of-mouth network that knew when a new ramp appeared in Ventura. Convinced my parents to drive […]