In putting togeth...
In putting together this week's podcast, I've been contemplating what it means to be an authentic punk. Is that label associated with some sort of a sincere engagement with that subculture? What is a sincere engagement? Who determines that, anyway? Are you an authentic punk if you slavishly adhere to the personal iconography of the movement? If you wash your hair with eggs, stick a safety pin through your nose and struggle into a pair of black drainpipe jeans, does that make you an authentic punk? It sure makes you look like other punks. Perhaps the true assessment of punk credibility is your own capacity to elucidate upon the meaning, practices and values of punk. No doubt that woul