I write about writing, biking, jazz and power pop

My first job out of college was smoking dope for the govt. I answered an ad in the Boston Phoenix seeking subjects for a Harvard study on the effects of marijuana. We lived on a hospital ward, smoked govt grown dope every day and took test after test. It was just like college. When I got out, I wrote it up, sold it to the Boston Phoenix, and they soon hired me as their music editor.

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