Finished reading Please Kill Me tonight. Which was great, of course. Punk rock, y'all. A little bit soap opera, a little bit magical, a little bit depressing. In other words, something for everybody! I don't know if it's true for everyone -- probably not -- but for me it was often weirdly semi-familiar, as so many of the stories happened in/around places where I ended up hanging around. But probably 5-10 years after. Some well-known (CBGB, Cat Club) while others were, I thought, just places where I used to hang out. I was kinda surprised to see a mention of the Scrap Bar -- one of a series of fine drinking estabs that I frequented over the years but until I read the book I had no idea it had also once been the site of Johnny Thunders clocking Dee Dee Ramone over the head with a beer mug.
The other thing I've been enjoying lately is the Cory Doctorow story ("Themepunks") that's being serialized on Salon. Won't bother linking cos it's behind the wall of subscriber-ness. Altho I guess you can just put up with the annoying ads and get the content for free. It's up to chapter 6 this week and, altho there have been a few passages that just landed with a dull thud, I'm really starting to get hooked in by the story.