Tag Archives: Dave Miller

Historically incorrect historic reenactment on the streets of Portland over fried pies

I spent the past two days in Portland, on a super-secret mission that I hope to tell you about sometime soon. In the meantime, though, I wanted to share this video that I shot of my old friend Dave Miller and I talking this morning, over breakfast. [I stayed with Dave and his family while […]

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The food carts of Portland

I didn’t get to Reading Frenzy, like I’d hoped, but I was able to poke around Portland a little this afternoon, eat some good food, and visit with some Ypsi expatriates, who were kind enough to answer a few of my questions about why they chose to leave Michigan for Oregon. I’ll tell you more […]

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Hump!

A former housemate of mine in Ann Arbor now lives in Portland. I try to get him to move back to Michigan on occasion, but it’s hard to compete with a city like Portland. Case in point… when I went out to there to visit him a few years ago, he took me to a […]

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The Monkey Power Trio: famous for fifteen people

I got interviewed a while back by a website called, appropriately enough, Famous for 15 People. They wanted to talk about the one-day-a-year band that I’m in, the Monkey Power Trio, and our most recent record, Tearing Down the Parthenon. The podcast is now available online. Enjoy.

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Death, the punk rock missing link?

I haven’t been terribly excited to hear anything new music-wise for a long, long time. An article in today’s New York Times, however, has me really intrigued. It seems as though Drag City Records just released a 1974 demo tape by three African-American brothers in Detroit – David, Bobby and Dannis Hackney – who, inspired […]

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