tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168e4a612f8970c016768a94ea1970b 2012-07-22T00:06:27-07:00 2012-07-22T23:38:28-07:00

After five hours of folding pages and pushing creases, I emerged from my local copy center this afternoon with bruised and battered thumbs, and a box of brand-new little, precious books about the end of the world. The title of these books, hidden beneath a beautiful cover created by artist...

Mark Baumgarten tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168e4a612f8970c0176164a85d4970c 2012-07-10T06:00:00-07:00 2012-07-09T18:30:48-07:00

To purchase a physical copy of Love Rock Revolution, check with your local bookstore, or order it here. To purchase a copy for your Kindle, go here.

Mark Baumgarten tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168e4a612f8970c016768566506970b 2012-07-10T05:55:00-07:00 2012-07-10T10:17:30-07:00

I usually reserve this blog for my thoughts and opinions. For this time only, though, I'm delivering straight facts. The most important fact is that my book, Love Rock Revolution, is now available for purchase at bookstores and online.

Mark Baumgarten tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168e4a612f8970c0167666eb2e4970b 2012-05-11T12:41:28-07:00 2012-05-11T15:53:06-07:00

I know that all drugs are not the same and that to conflate mushrooms with heroin under the heading of "dangerous drugs" is tantamount to placing "failure to signal" in the same category as "driving on the wrong side of the highway." Sure both can get you in trouble, but...

Mark Baumgarten tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168e4a612f8970c016303242897970d 2012-03-22T05:40:07-07:00 2012-03-23T07:48:06-07:00

After gestating on the matter for five days, I finally put down in words my thoughts on Mike Daisey, the monologuist who, it was recently revealed, fabricated much of his recent one-man-show The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Many people felt duped by the performance, in which Daisey tells...

Mark Baumgarten tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168e4a612f8970c016762aeb091970b 2012-02-20T11:14:16-08:00 2012-02-26T15:30:44-08:00

Last night I returned to Seattle after a three-day whirl-wind trip to the Midwest where I witnessed the marriage of my cousin Amy to a tall, handsome gentleman named Brandon. The bride was beautiful; the groom affable and a little goofy. They both danced, with each other, with their friends'...

Mark Baumgarten tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168e4a612f8970c01630148a3d8970d 2012-02-12T20:14:34-08:00 2012-02-12T20:26:11-08:00

While sifting through articles to put together my "Past Stories of Note," I had the great horror of revisiting the weekly columns I wrote for Willamette Week while working as music editor there from 2003 to 2006. My column was called Riff City (a play on Portland's nickname "Rip City,"...

Mark Baumgarten tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168e4a612f8970c0168e6bfa9fb970c 2012-02-05T10:09:04-08:00 2012-02-05T20:50:17-08:00

Every few months I will have a dream about a subject I have interviewed or will soon be interviewing for a story, usually a musician. These are my work stress dreams and they offer absolutely no insights into these characters. But I feel compelled to make a record of them....

Mark Baumgarten tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168e4a612f8970c01676176cdb9970b 2012-01-31T23:30:11-08:00 2012-03-25T23:36:29-07:00

I loathe concert reviews. I can’t stand reading them. When I feel I should read one, I skim it, sometimes jumping entire paragraphs for no good reason. For the most part, I can’t stand writing them either. Unless the live performance is part of a larger story or there is...

Mark Baumgarten tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168e4a612f8970c016300574777970d 2012-01-29T11:04:04-08:00 2012-02-12T22:28:05-08:00

This month I had the great honor of interviewing the curator of Paris' Musée d’Orsay, Stéphane Guégan, about Paul Gauguin, the colonial-era artist whose work will be shown in an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum starting next month.

Mark Baumgarten