The eighth issue of “The Unexplained” came out sometime during the summer of 1988. I remember being very proud of this issue. Looking back at it now, I can see the beginnings of the end of the first wave of our little pastime. The growing t…
Peter Relic and I were rivals. Unbeknownst to him, for decades, we were arch rivals. Coming out of high school and coming out of undergrad, I wanted to be working in magazines. My heroes — Andy Jenkins, Mark Lewman, and Spike Jonze — all wo…
I present the following with more than a little embarrassment, but history is history and youthful folly has its way with all of us. One day during the summer after our ninth-grade year, I went over to my friend Matt Bailie’s house to ride
I’ve been slowly, quietly compiling an anthology of my zines, and this was one I didn’t have a copy of myself. Front Wheel Drive #46 was a ten-year anniversary issue of sorts. It came out sometime in 1996, a decade after my first zine in Ju…
An interview with me by R.U. Sirius for Mindplex Magazine. Originally published on Mindplex Magazine, this wide-ranging interview starts with my two newest books and then goes much deeper into their origins, my research, and my writing in g…
On July 18th I’ll be at the Literary Indulgence Book Festival here in Jacksonville! My books and I will be hanging out at Table #14 all day. Come through and get a book, some stickers, and my horrible hand style in one of your books! Indulg…
In his latest piece for The Stranger, my friend and mentor Charles Mudede quotes my book Post-Self: Journeys Beyond the Human Body (Repeater Books). Mudede tackles the dread that only comes from the threat of nuclear apocalypse (a dread Gen…
“How easily we forget how bright the moonlight can be when we spend our nights in the wan glow of artificial light.” I found the above quotation on page 40 of a book. I don’t know what book. I’m usually more diligent than that about such pe…
I just talked to him last month on his birthday. I’d known him for 35 years, and he inspired me all the way through. He ran companies, organized events, fostered communities, and did it all with an infectious smile on his face. With the pas…
“One day you might find cause to ask yourself what the limit is to some pain you’re experiencing, and you’ll find out there is no limit at all. Pain is inexhaustible. It’s only people that get exhausted.” — Detective Ray Velcoro, True Detec…
A quick reading of the first two paragraphs from Post-Self on Radio Panik episode #516, “Adrift Reentry Norther,” December 14, 2025. We are all perpetually holding ourselves together. Our breath, our blood, our food, our spit, our shit, our…
Adam Abada wrote the following thorough and thoughtful review of The Medium Picture for Tails of Skateboarding‘s Skate Book Club newsletter: In a mode appealing to members of any subculture, Roy Christopher’s dense but slim The Medium Pictu…