PREPPIES OF THE APOCALYPSE

Is 2012 over yet? Not quite? Can we hurry this along?
Rough year. Let’s wrap it up with a look at some of the search terms people have used to find this website over the past few months, courtesy of Google Analytics:
simon lebon arrogant ass Sure. Isn’t that why we love Simon?

My novel WRONG CITY is now available as an ebook (Kindle format only) for a very reasonable $2.99 at Amazon.

Here's the synopsis:

We’re going off the beaten path for this one.

Back in October, I attended a discussion John Taylor held as part of his promotional tour for his just-released memoir, In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran. A friend had a spare ticket she wanted to sell, and a friend of a friend of a friend was looking for a ticket, and through The Power of Twitter, we met at the event and sorted everything out, and a lovely time was had by all. The friend of a friend of a friend turned out to be John Ares, also known as VJ Johnny Blitz, producer and host of the New York cable-access series Music Madness, a music-interest show specializing in hard-to-find videos.
John Ares is a delightful fellow with a deep and comprehensive knowledge of music, who can talk circles around me on the subject of Duran Duran. A charter member of the MTV generation, John's enthusiasm for the then-emerging field of music videos led to the creation of Music Madness in 1983. While the original run ended in 1…