Full Blue Moon Dementia

  I forgive you. I was robbed at gunpoint by an addict (who jumped me from behind and took me down before putting the gun in my face). And while it was terrifying, he didn’t hurt me. Afterwards, I felt sorry for him, because you have to be in a terrible place to do something...

    Dear Mr. O’Neil, I did not incorporate a formal thesis statement in my essay because I like the freedom to be able to change the essay’s direction depending on what I have to say or the tone I am portraying. If you notice, I have used different supporting paragraphs for each element of...

      Dear Mr. O’Neil, Thank you for sending your manuscript. However I am at odds as how to respond to your writing. There is a darkness I find unsettling. If I am to believe it actually is memoir then you are not a person I want to know, let alone represent. Your manuscript...

    That awkward moment: when you realize (or really just suspect) the upstairs neighbor has been listening to you YELL at yourself for the last ten minutes – and then in an effort to sound as if it were a phone conversation, you abruptly scream, “goodbye.” That awkward moment: when you’re hugging someone, someone...

  Patrick O’Neil reading for Sensitive Skin Magazine from Patrick O'Neil on Vimeo.      

      Film: Evan Karp  

    Lit Up Spring ’11 Patrick from AULA BAMP on Vimeo.      

    Badly Translated: Murders, robberies, heroin and rock’n’roll: the polar cocktail that kills! La sélection noire de Philippe Blanchet. TOO DRUNK TO FUCK In the late 70′s, Patrick was a roadie for Dead 
Kennedys and road manager for Flipper, one of the 
best punk bands of the San Francisco Bay Area. 
He was a...

The Next Big Thing: Self Interview Wendy C. Ortiz, poet, writer of prose/nonfiction, co-founder/curator of the Rhapsodomancy reading series, and a person I admire, a lot, tagged me for The Next Big Thing.         What is your working title of your book or work in progress?   Hold-Up   Where did the...

      Patrick O’Neil a découvert l’héroïne à San Francisco. «Hold-Up» est son premier ouvrage, non publié aux États-Unis à ce jour mais qu’il nous paraît urgent de partager avec vous. Les Mémoires de cet auteur «extrême , sous haute tension» sont une fuite en avant désespérée sur fond d’histoire d’amour toxique et aliénante....