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"His name is as pretentious as his writing ... his reviews are nothing but a display (crude, I might add) of a very depraved psuedo-intellectual relieving himself of a personal agony at our expense."

— From my best hate letter. Cliff Aldana, c. 1986

Richard von Busack ([email protected]), born 1958 in San Bernardino, Calif; grew up in Los Angeles and attended University of California, Santa Cruz as a history major. He has written for Metro since the first issue in 1985 and has also written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner and the East Bay Express.

The Faq
"Faq Me? Faq Me? No, no, my friend. Faq you."
—Al Pacino (back when he was fun to watch)

Added bonus
Town names in Kentucky that are too good to be true.

From the Out of Print Book Dept.:
Samuel Clemens' nasty side
and
I was a teenage Satanist