Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Journalism

Sometimes you get really lucky and you get to have a truly life-enriching experience.

You get to meet some folks and do somethings that really get your blood pumping and make you feel really alive.

Those two folks whose image you see, are Shane and Amy Bugbee. They run an amazing website called

A year at the Wheel identifies itself as true citizen journalism and that is exactly what it is.

I met Shane at the Texas Fear Fest 2 convention, where we hit it off because I was wearing some satanic gear that I had just purchased. We talked about ideas, and made an agreement that I was going to interview him for my podcast and he was going to interview me for his website.

is a website that documents Shane and Amy's road trip through the United States. Its been compared to Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo journalism but I reject this comparison. Hunter S. Thompson represented how far you could ignore reality by just being a good writer and keeping a little bit of your story grounded in fact. Shane and Amy are more committed to reality than anything else.

Which is one of the reasons I'm so into what they do.

Reality.

They have video coverage of the Tupac Shakur museum. They have an interview with CIA agent John G Peeler, they have video of Michael Vick's dogs being rescued. It is simply extremely raw, and extremely real.

Its way too real to be gonzo journalism, but it is exactly the kind of journalism that I'm out looking for.

For all my hardcore atheist readers they have great interview footage with famous atheist lawyer, Edwin Kagin. They interviewed punk artist Jeff Gaither. They interviewed a guy who runs a serial killer website. They also covered a Kentucky gun show.

If you want to know whats going on in this country, you just have to go this page.

Shane and Amy interviewed me for this website, and Kalisa and I had so much fun with them.

We insisted they spend the night at our place, and we just couldn't get enough of this wonderful couple who are out there getting the real news for us.

Check them out!