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We Did It Our Way

Earlier this year, in March, Pleasant and I spent a week talking about our adventures as inadvertent teenage entrepreneurs in the 70s... With the (Teenage) Lobotomy show at Lethal Amounts as our anchor, we also were guest lecturers at my alma mater, UCLA, together with our punk rock comrades, Alice Bag and Iris Berry.   Professor Jessica Schwartz , herself a latter day DIY punk rocker, invited us to speak to her class about the birth of the movement in Los Angeles and our roles in it as women and entrepreneurs in the fields of music, publishing, photography and general doing-it-yourself stuff.  We fielded questions from a diverse class of millennials, and I finally understand what my parents' generation meant when they embraced the term "generation gap."  Prior to the Lethal Amounts show, we stayed up late with Stella at KXLU and played records with her on her long-running and beloved Stray Pop show. Throughout the week's activitie...

July 1 - Wish Debbie Harry a Happy Birthday!

We are ever grateful to Blondie - Debbie, Chris, Clem and Jimmy Destri and Nigel Harrison and Frank Infante and Gary Valentine from years gone by... they let us tag along when they started their ride and here we are 40+ years later, enjoying them... then, now and forever! (more about Lobotomy here)