When I Come Up Against The Real

There's Many Heroic Underappreciated Investigative Journalists.

Killing Yourself Is A Major Commitment, It Takes A Kind Of Courage. Most People Just Lead Lives Of Cowardly Desperation. It's Kinda Half Suicide Where You Just Dull Yourself With Substances.

At Least I Hate Myself As Much As I Hate Anybody Else.

I Knew I Was Weird By The Time I Was Four. I Knew I Wasn't Like Other Boys. I Knew I Was More Fearful. I Didn't Like The Rough And Tumble Most Boys Were Into. I Knew I Was A Sissy.

They Were Just Snapshots, Nothing Special, Nothing Particularly Artistic. They Were Used For Utility Purposes. (on Photographs Of Mundane Streetscapes He Had Stanley Something-or-other Take In Sacramento In 1988 To Serve As Backgrounds To His Cartoons. People Don't Draw It, All This Crap, People Don't Focus Attention On It Because It's Ugly, It's Bleak, It's Depressing... But, This Is The World We Live In; I Wanted My Work To Reflect That, The Background Reality Of Urban Life. )