Cal Safety inspectors go into factories all over the world looking for signs of worker exploitation, egregious safety violations, child labor and quota violations. We are paid by our clients, major manufacturers whose stores and products are household names. The worse a factory is, the more often inspectors are sent, and the more money the company makes. My god, how the money rolls in (continue...)

First Run in The Boulder Weekly, June 2000 -- Chosen as a daily pick by the Utne Reader web site.

A Drunkard's Life

Boulder Weekly -- July 2000

It was 8:30 in the morning. I was drunk, staggering, psychotic and armed with a .308 Winchester elk rifle. I went outside and noticed that my fellow citizens seemed to be in a state of fear and panic.(continue...)

Bobcat's Big-Ass Interview

Boulder Weekly -- July 2000

Bobcat Goldthwait is the madman of American comedy. He's the kid who was prescribed Ritalin as a child and wound up crushing them and snorting them for fun...(continue)

Cold War Cuisine-- An evening of North Korean Cuisine

Beijing Scene -- Aug 1999

My photographer is surrounded by desperate waitresses in starch-pressed uniforms. They are grabbing at his camera and making ugly sounds. "No photos," they keep repeating in broken Mandarin. The air is thick with paranoia, and our dog-meat soup hasn't even arrived yet...(continue)

Negativland -- True or False?

Boulder Weekly -- May 2000

Negativland is a band surrounded by myth, lies and rumors.Some say that the group's lead singer is highly germ phobic, and that his vocals are piped through a holographic projection while he remains quarantined inside a plastic bubble when the band plays live...(continue)

The Hong Kong Daily Standard (print) / The Secular Web (web) -- April, 2000

I first learned of the Falun Gong sect during the summer of 1999. I had been working for a magazine in Beijing, and the city's ancient parks, places with names like "Temple of heaven park" were daily playing host to groups of practitioners standing in quiet circles moving to the music of the sect's home grown new age music and their own inner chi...(continue)