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I just finished How To Ru(i)n A Record Label, Larry Livermore’s first-hand account of the rise and fall of legendary East Bay punk label Lookout Records, which he cofounded and, among many other bands, gave the world Green Day.

I’m not a massive nonfiction fan, but Livermore’s voice and brutally honest accounts of major and minor events made this a great read, not just for fans of pop punk music, but those who like a good story well told.

I was introduced to Lookout Records by my roommate at the start of my freshman year of college when he loaned me Energy by Operation Ivy. I couldn’t stop listening to it. It was my gateway to Green Day, Screeching Weasel, Mr. T Experience, Pansy Division, and so many more awesome bands.

I loved Lookout’s releases so much, it became one of two labels from which I would buy a new release even of I didn’t know the band. The other was 4AD, home of the Pixies.

And my love of the East Bay pop punk sound led to me see Green Day play a small club in Richmond, VA about a year before they signed with a major label. The second time I saw Green Day was last year at SoFi Stadium in L.A. Quite the change.

(It’s also worth mentioning Richmond, VA’s own Avail became one of the few non-East Bay bands on Lookout.)

Anyway, if you’re a music fan, an old punk, or just like a good memoir about a historic moment in music created by a handful of outcasts and misfits, check out the book.

Backbone (2021) | Eggnut

Hwiccewyrm trispiculum lived during the late Triassic, around 208-202 million years ago, in what is now England. It was one of the last known members of the procolophonid family, a lineage of small stocky lizard-like animals that had been widespread and abundant earlier in the Triassic.

(Traditionally procolophonids are classified as parareptiles, but some recent studies suggest this group is paraphyletic or polyphyletic, with some "parareptiles" potentially nesting within the diapsids instead.)

Measuring around 30cm long (~1'), Hwiccewyrm had wide flaring cheek bones ornamented with large spines, and like some other procolophonids it may also have had bony scute armor on its body. Its large blunt teeth suggest it was feeding on particularly tough foods such as fibrous vegetation or hard-shelled invertebrates.

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References:

Butler, Richard J., et al. "Hwiccewyrm trispiculum gen. et sp. nov., a new leptopleuronine procolophonid from the Late Triassic of southwest England." The Anatomical Record 307.4 (2024): 1390-1420. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25316

Meade, Luke E., et al. "A new procolophonid with complex dentition from the Late Triassic of southwest England." Papers in Palaeontology 10.6 (2024): e1605. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1605

Merck, John. "The Reptilian Stem - A Work in Progress" University of Maryland GEOL 431 Vertebrate Paleobiology, 2025, https://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/geol431/lectures/17sauropsida.html

Wikipedia contributors. “Hwiccewyrm” Wikipedia, 20 Mar. 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwiccewyrm

Wikipedia contributors. “Parareptilia” Wikipedia, 04 Apr. 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parareptilia

I pretend like I’ve only just noticed you; I smile, appreciative, inviting, like, hey, come on over here.

Of course you come to me. Who wouldn’t?

I am, unfortunately, in need of phone repair money. So I've written a special short story for Ko-Fi supporters. It's 2700 words from Angel's POV, covering their first meeting with 180 and the events of Chapter One of Aegis Project, and you can find it right here.

From up on the balcony, the casino floor stretches beneath me in a multicolored wonderland of vice. People flock to the levers and the dice and the never-ending whirl of the roulette wheel in the evergreen knowledge that this will be the time their luck changes. They bleed money into the house’s insatiable maw, soothe the pain with alcohol, and return again.

It’s the kind of scene I normally love.

I’m bored out of my fucking mind.

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Coup de Foudre (Angel's POV)

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IT'S AUGUST! TODAY IS STILL AUGUST 1, 1999!

By the sea.