Gina Arnold

don't you mean "AND" not but? I would love to see Gilbert and maybe Pavlov too just for the fun of it.

Honestly I sort of enjoyed it.

Give the past a slip Devo and the B-52s at Shoreline Amphitheater, Oct. 16, 2025

open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote about losing my job and seeing the B-52s on the same day. Sorry for the melancholia, the times are not so great. Thanks as always for checking it out, it's free! :(

Because the world is so kooky I made cookies that look like sliders today.

Someone is impersonating me on Xtwit. If you, or anyone you know, gets an email purporting to be form me, and saying I will write an article about you if you pay me, please know that it is fake.

The Song Remains The Same "Spinal Tap: The End Continues" - at a theater near you.

The other day I had the choice of seeing the Who live, or "Spinal Tap: The End Continues" at the movie theater. Do you think I made the right decision? Thanks as always for reading! open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/...

Do you think they mean "dogpatch"? Get a human copy editor, #sfchronicle. #typos

The gilded age Isabelle just texted me from the airport to say that the elderly looking woman in the seat next to her had “Gardening at Night” as her ring ...

Me too. Here's a review I wrote of a 83 show: foolsrushinredux.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-...

In the name of love Diana Ross at Stern Grove, August 17, 2025

open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote about seeing Diana Ross at the Stern Grove festival yesterday. Thanks as always for reading and sharing - it's always free, just click on through...

Now most students are terrified of English 101 - and do poorly at it - which is exactly how I felt about math classes 40 years ago

All the pro STEM rhetoric devolved badly on the humanities and english/writing classes especially. 1/

Hard agree. I don't see what's so hard about just saying no to it.

Be like water Mekons at Moe's Alley, July 29, 2025

gina19e.substack.com/p/be-like-wa... I wrote a little essay about seeing the Mekons in Santa Cruz and here it is :)

Whale fin spotted off Manresa Beach this morning, post tsunami, post Mekons. I guess there is a morning after.

That was the week that was Revisiting the music of my parents: Tom Lehrer

open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... Reposting a blog I wrote about #tomlehrer last year. RIP, sir. Such a grand addition to the 20th century musical canon!

Under the covers David Lee Roth at the Chumash Arena, July 22, 2025

open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote a little thing about seeing David Lee Roth at the Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles last week. Thanks for checking it out - it's free to read, as always. (Photo of my favorite metal band.)

You better beware

Man and Superman "Superman" and the politics of punk

open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote a little thing about punk rock in #Superman - not Rock N Roll High School, as pictured, although I do discuss that as well. Thanks as always for checking it out - it's free!

I am the editor of the oxford handbook of punk, so hey feel free to ask me my opinion on the freewheelin' use of the punk rock sub theme in the new Superman movie!

The Long Goodbye Lloyd Cole at Largo at the Coronet, July 2, 2025

New post on my substack, about Lloyd Cole, Joan Didion, Southern California and other stuff. open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/...

Chris Colin I wrote about my car, our collective sanity and the state of Fuck It. (Please share so they hire me again! Please share your sludge tales, too. We need to be daylighting this stuff.)

www.facebook.com/653396420/po... great article

Thanks to all who came to the book launch of the Oxford Handbook Punk!

looks great. Hope they have other stuff.

From my column, linked below

Stop by and say HI if you're around Kings Cross tomorrow night!

Was it me

Jose on Malta Air makin' flyin fun again.

Apparantly, we got the guillotine

Wordle was a beast today