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Out Bad
Regular and occasional readers of this page may want to know about a couple of new books that are finally in print. The first is called Out Bad: A True Story About Motorcycle Outlaws. The second is titled The Aging Rebel: Dispatches From The Motorcycle Outlaw Frontier. Both books are self-published, like Granny’s collection of [...]
Continue reading...Sutter Orders Killing
24. October 2011
It is time to get dirty SAMCRO fans. Your leader commands you. This morning Kurt Sutter, the man behind the favorite television show of all real bikers including Anarchists, Mayans, the Irish Republican Army and so on twittered, “after tomorrow night’s episode, @directv will be pulling FX from your dial. kill DTV and change service [...]
Continue reading...Samcro Season Four Premier in Brief
7. September 2011
As a public service to all of those who were unable to watch last night’s premier of season four of the outstanding FX Networks amazingly terrific drama Sons of Anarchy here is what you missed as faithfully as I can recount it based on my verbatim notes. Six-fifty-eight Pacific Daylight Savings Time Okay, where is [...]
Continue reading...Here We Go Again
5. September 2011
That incredibly marvelous, wonderful and important television show Sons of Anarchy debuts tonight. Again. I know. I still can’t see how important this “Shakespearian inspired drama” is but I am starting to catch on. I am trying. My “problem” may be, as casual readers who love the show frequently tell me, that I am too [...]
Continue reading...SAMCRO And History
7. September 2010
The third season of the FX Network’s most successful show just debuted. It is called Sons of Anarchy and last year’s conclusion featured 4.3 million viewers rooting for an outlaw motorcycle club. Maybe that is the best thing about this show. Maybe there is more. I am still sort of glancing at the television out [...]
Continue reading...The Fat Mexican
28. March 2010
Biker books are always written by one of two categories of authors – either the “participant observer” or the “objective journalist.” The books by objective journalists are usually the worst. Yves Lavigne and Julian Sher epitomize this style; crass and self-righteous. But some of the books by participant observers like Doc Cavazos, William Queen and [...]
Continue reading...The Bandido Massacre
15. March 2010
Men are saved by motorcycle clubs as they are saved by religion. Many men who have ridden with clubs will understand the comparison. For some men a patch is the first thing they have ever won in their lives and the experience of putting that symbol on their backs is transformative. Those who were weak [...]
Continue reading...Methland
16. November 2009
I was young. I was getting drunk in a dive in old Baja Oklahoma. It was so long ago the jukebox was wailing “Mendocino.” It was so long ago the dancers all wore tassels and thongs. A strobe light throbbed like the end of sex so even if you stared you could only see about [...]
Continue reading...Waiting For Samcro
9. October 2009
I am riding up through the high desert into the Eastern Sierras a week or so ago. The ride is always plagued with bugs. And, I have never owned a motorcycle with a windshield or a fairing or any of that crap so I am very aware of the bugs. At ninety miles an hour [...]
Continue reading...They’re Baa-hack
8. September 2009
That ridiculous thing, Sons of Anarchy, begins its second season – of a proposed seven seasons – tonight, Tuesday, September 8th, at ten o’clock Eastern. And apparently, 5.4 million of you have had this day marked on your calendars for ten months. Three weeks ago, according to the Manteca Bulletin, a “mind-boggling” number of the [...]
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20. November 2011
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