I know according to Maximum Rock and Roll we are supposed to despise the Warped Tour and all other "festival tours", too bad I went to the Warped Tour in St. Louis and I learned some things.

1. When the band starts playing, the texting doesn't stop.
2. When I got into punk rock, the bands were the same age as us, now the bands are 10 years older than the fans and I am ten years older than the bands.
3. When every one has an ironic haircut, it isn't ironic anymore

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The Brotherhood of the Disappearing Pants
A Field Guide to Conservative Sex Scandals
Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer
Nation Books
ISBN: 156858377X

The authors previous two books are "Sweeet Jesus I Hate Bill O'Reilly and "Fair and Balances, My Ass: An Unbridles Look at eh Bizarre Reality of Fox News" so you can guess were these guys lean politically and that is alright with me. This book lays out if I counted right, 68 conservative sex scandals. While reading all of them admittedly may seem repetitive, what is amazing is how many self appointed members of the morality police are living the life that they decry at every given opportunity.

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Do It Yourself Screenprinting
John Isaacson
Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 9780977055746

Way back in the day, I did some silk screening. My favorite story is one time rinsing the ink out of the screens in my tub right before someone came to to tour my apartment. My tub was jet black and disgusting looking. I soon moved out, but I doubt those people renting the apartment. When I silkscreened there was one book written during the 60s that helped you learn how to silk screen, so another book was desperately needed.

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Black Radical
The Eduction of an American Revolutionary
Nelson Peery
The New Press
ISBN: 9781595581457

During World War II, Nelson Peery and his fellow black soldiers fought to make the world free and to topple fascism. When they returned home, they were not afforded the liberties that they fought for. Peery tells his story up to and including his fighting in WW II in his book Black Fire, in Black Radical we follow Peery after his return from the war. A very human and interesting read, we feel for Nelson as he is sitting in the tavern after returning and realizes that unless he does something, this might be all there is for him.

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