A little better for your having lived!

Punk Rock Colleague & Historian and Professional Consultant

Hudley Flipside

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These two punkers have shared so much joy with me. As wild youth on the streets and at small club to even into our senior citizen years. I adore their iconic personalities but mostly enjoy the way we grew up in an underground scene. Generations of trial and error.

I saw the Adolescents play at Tony’s high school, the original members included. I took a picture of the last time the original Black Flag played at a small stinky Church basement. A giant blur, where Orange County, Fullerton, Whitter, and Los Angeles all merged together.

I witnessed the wild ways of both of these characters. From Keith peeing above the stairs on the bathroom door as I was in the bathroom.

Tony destroys the first showing of the film Another State of Mind. He pushed the projector over… or did he trip on his shoelace?

Regardless we all did nasty and good things for a scene we were surviving in. I never found Keith and Tony anything but charming at the time and still do. Yet at that time in our youthful rebellion, we were defying something together and at Flipside Fanzine we supported them with a continuity of enthusiasm.

This image is a rendering of the two of them showing their wounds at a punk rock show in the 1980s. One can find this original image in an old issue of Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine.

I did a watercolor doodling of remembrance.

“Keith and Tony … we are watching the solar eclipse as at the same time they are touring between Maryland and Connecticut… wild … hope they are looking up as well.” (April 8^th, 2024)

I still dream and do often do a lot of pondering over many bands who are still touring… I guess I will always love them all with my maternal punk rock heart.

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When she passed away the female global word took a big blow. Collectively sharing a resounding decline here in America when Roe v. Wade was overturned.

She was the ring of good liberty and justice not just for a woman’s voice but for everyone.

I was astonished when I heard how a Praying Mantis honored her.

“Ilomantis ginsburgae is a newly identified species of leaf-dwelling praying mantis, named after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”

~ Rick Wherley/Cleveland Museum of Natural History

“Whatever you choose to do, leave tracks. That means don’t do it just for yourself. You will want to leave the world a little better for your having lived.”

—Ruth Bader Ginsburg