Full Blue Moon Dementia

    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....

  Discerning writers choose Hold-Up nine out of ten times in our hermetically sealed taste tests. Merci beaucoup Monsieur Rob Roberge!     Artists possessing refined palates pick Hold-Up over other competing brands (filtered, and non-filtered). Thanks a million Jean-Fabien Leclanche (photographer of Hold-Up’s cover photo)     A recent nation wide poll of singer/musicians, most...

  My Author Page is up at my publisher’s website.      

      Reading: “There’s a Crackhead at my Window” at the Tongue & Groove reading series, Hollywood, California. January 20th, 2013. Special thanks to: Steven Wilson for the camera work. © Patrick O’Neil/2013