Johnny Misfit

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I got the name Johnny Misfit my first semester in college (Sept 1998) because I wore a hoody which I had sewn on the minimum of 4 Misfits patches.   

Check out the above links for details on projects or work I’m doing/done.  Introducing Movie Watchlist QuaranTV. Check out movie reviews as a relief thru this pandemic. Read here  Here’s my 2020 Movie Watchlist, the total listing of all the movies I watched last year. Enjoy! Check out the Public Collectors Quaranzine project. My Movie Watchlist review of Contagion was submitted and published in Quaranzine Issue #32 April 2020 (read here). Quick CV I founded the nonprofit Chicago Publishers Resource Center in 2013 and after 5 years, closed its doors August 2018.  

I hosed the Two Cookie Minimum reading series, periodically from July 2010 - August 2018.  

I was an organizer of Chicago Zine Fest from 2011-2019.  

I self publish zines. My newest zine title is Movie Watchlist. Past titles I’ve put out included Field Manual: Human Body, 3 Stories, and The Muse the Noose and the News.   I have two BA’s from Columbia College Chicago: Radio (2003), Fiction Writing (2012).

I play drums, currently not w/ anyone. Bands I've been in include (recent to latest) Kitchen Experiment, Silent Scones, the Kidults, the New Standards, the Rushmores, the Xterminators, Resination, Cancer Merchants.   I’ve been a father since 2017, a husband since 2014, vegan since 2009, and a Chicagoan since 1980.