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ASSORTED WRITINGS:
"Cannon Films: The Rise and Fall of Menahem Golan" (2001)

"Fast Company" (2007)

"Sci-Fi Law" (2007)

"Last Man Dancing" (2001)

"Our Alien, HE" (1987)

"Drummer on Top: The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith" (2002)

"Doubting Peter" (2000)

"The Home Mixing Handbook" (unfinished, 2004)

"Ballot Box Deja Vu: California's Anti-Gay Propositions" (2000)

"Singin' the Hi-Res Blues" (2003)

BIO:
I grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. I have a bachelor's degree in linguistics from Swarthmore College and a master's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley. Feel free to email me at patrick@runkle.info.

From 2000 until 2004, I was the editorial director for ArtistPro, a music-industry trade publisher in the Bay Area. I also was editorial director for ArtistPro's short-lived national magazine, which was distributed to all the members of the GRAMMY organization. (That includes Phil Spector.)

Current activities include my band, Ganymede, my trips to Canada, and various other things I do. (See above for links.) I also have a large collection of oversize video boxes from the early 80s.

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October 16, 2005
"Like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target..." The hugely lengthy pieces today in the Times on Judith Miller and the Plame investigation leave no doubt that Miller is one of the most useless people ever. Virtually no acknowledgment is made that the exact same thing that got her into trouble in the first place--being a Bush Administration shill--is making the Times look stupid. I give a huge nomination to this piece as "most inconsequential news article to ever take up more than one page in the Sunday Times."

On a wholly unrelated note, "For Crying Out Loud" is a revelation in surround sound on the Bat Out of Hell SACD. One of the best showcases for surround sound music I've heard, especially given the aural weakness of most standard CD releases of this album. But even a well-mastered version could not open the song up the way the surround sound version does during the explosive second chorus.