My new memoir, Anarchy At The Circle K, is out now on Punk Hostage Press. Anarchy At The Circle K is literally a punk tour-de-force. An in your face gut-wrenching, and at times humorous, tale of Patrick O’Neil’s stint as a roadie, road manager, and drug addict during punk’s heyday of the 1980’s. Crisscrossing the highways...
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Apparently March was podcast month I was a guest on three cool podcasts Outcast Press Podcast: Interview With Patrick O’Neil A Podcast brought to you by the degenerate minds over at Outcast Press. Sebastian Vice and Natalie Nider interview “Patrick O’Neil, author of, among other things, the memoir Gun, Needle, Spoon. We discuss his roadie...
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Inflation is here and it’s kicking ass. Prices rose 7.5% in January alone. The only other time in recent history that inflation hit this high was back in 1982. Reagan had been in office for a year and totally fucked the economy with his “voodoo economics.” Yet even in that “economic downturn” corporate America still...
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This is a lecture/presentation on Spirituality that I gave at Marymount California University for their Wellness Program: February 11th, 2022. Spirituality Spirituality is universal—it touches all of us. It is a vast concept with room for many perspectives. The general idea is that it includes a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves, and...
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My four week online course “Writing Through Trauma” starts January 17th. For a 10% discount use the registration code: ESCAPE When we experience a traumatic event, our memories are affected. Our perception of that event, and previous events can be negatively influenced. This negative influence can manifest itself as fear, resentment, and anger. All, or...
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Take off the mask, lock the door, pull the curtains, 2022 is here. It’s that time of year again and my customary literary endeavor is to muster up some gratitude, see the silver lining, find some meaning, acknowledge the hardships, accept the losses, embrace the successes, and wrap the previous year all up in a...
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Hey, guess what? I’m still angry. And you should be too. Surprise, surprise, nothing has changed in a month since my last rant. Shit is still fucked up. Inaction and ineptitude are still the norm. The earth is still trying to shake humanity off its back as a reaction to pollution causing climate change. People...
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Recovery Memoir Illuminates the Power of Vulnerability Through Writing by Ryan M. Moser, Prison Journalism Project November 2, 2021 When I was asked to review “Writing Your Way to Recovery: How Stories Can Change Our Lives,” by James Brown and Patrick O’Neil, I initially balked. Although I’m an incarcerated writer and a recovering addict, I...
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I don’t know about you, but I’m angry. Everyday the radical right flaunts their power and diminishes ours. The news promotes ignorance, dishonesty, fantasy, and complete fabrication of facts. The pandemic could have been over, or at least held in check, but science deniers, conspiracy theorists, mentally ill, rightwing nut-jobs, and power seekers have kept...
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Ever since covid hit and the world went into lockdown I’ve settled in and embraced isolation. And even though I’ve been vaccinated (and everyone I know has as well), I still have no desire to go outside and rub elbows with the unenlightened, uneducated, ill informed, and especially the unvaccinated. I really don’t see a...
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