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TONY "COYOTE" PEREZ
Author & Storyteller
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COP-NADO!
It was when Willy used a forklift to load my Plymouth Volare onto a flatbed that the muffler finally got knocked off. Bout time. There...
May 17, 2021
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850 Bryant and The Burnerverse!
850 Bryant is as bleak a building as it looks. There are no smiles, polite greetings, or even a head nod from the people climbing the...
Apr 26, 2021
Slugger
Our twin boys were around 6 years old when they started fumbling around with Little League Baseball. They only lasted one season — wasn’t...
Mar 29, 2021
The Interview
Most every Burner has done the Burning Man Interview. Be it in the back of Ubers, on city busses, the bank teller asking, or the Xfinity...
Mar 8, 2021
Moms Manuscript
My mom typed on a manual Underwood typewriter at eighty words a minute, typo-free. And this was done with the tips of her long manicured...
Feb 22, 2021
Double Wave Hold Down
I stood leaning on the tailgate of my pickup, watching the waves of Ocean Beach from the parking lot. They were huge. They didn’t give a...
Feb 9, 2021
St. Elmo
St. Elmo’s Fire seemed a myth to me - until I saw it. It was faint enough that one had to be away from the light of the burn barrel to...
Jan 26, 2021
Burning the Butt
Photo by Scott Beale In the year 2000, we burned an anus. It was a Burning Man art project called, The Anus (also known as The Great...
Jan 19, 2021
Remembering Airports
Covid may have changed airports for good. This could be a good thing. Back in 2017, I traveled to Norfolk, Virginia to do a book reading...
Jan 12, 2021
City of Permission?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was too rich for Kalamazoo in 1979. Even though K-Zoo was one of Michigan’s “progressive” college towns,...
Jan 5, 2021
Pre-teen Quarantine
Parenting pre-teens in the time of Covid is like living in a pinball machine. My wife and I have twelve-year-old twin boys who are...
Dec 21, 2020
Social Smith
I am a Social Smith. It has always been my calling. Even as a child, I would get in trouble for sneaking out of bed and camping at the...
Dec 15, 2020
Sledgehammer
Photo by Crimson Rose Sledgehammer “You know you’re getting old when your tools are in museums.” These were my thoughts as I approached...
Dec 8, 2020
Turkey Fail
Most everyone has a Thanksgiving turkey fail story — from exploding deep fry grease fires to horrible burn victim scenarios to dried up...
Nov 30, 2020
Muni Punch
San Francisco has always been a bit off its rocker. And now in the marathon months of a pandemic, it seems that San Francisco is off its...
Nov 23, 2020
Virtual Noob - A Boomer's Trip into the Burning Man Multi-Verse
"It's official, honey. We won't be building Black Rock City this year." “Good,” my wife replied. “I can finally grow some tomatoes.”...
Oct 26, 2020
(Excerpt) Chapter 1: In Through the Out Door (Medium)
I shared Chapter 1 of BUILT TO BURN on Medium, where it was added to the Beyond Burning Man publication. Enjoy!
Sep 22, 2020
Mom's Menthols
My mother smoked for 71 years. She passed at the age of 86 with a final diagnosis of congestive heart failure. All said that the...
Aug 18, 2020
Catch me on the Burning Man LIVE podcast!
Hear me on the new podcast from Burning Man!
Aug 17, 2020
"Lit AF with Sarah Cohan" podcast
I had a blast talking to Sarah Cohan on her podcast, Lit AF, about the book, getting published, and the whole process of bringing BUILT...
Jul 1, 2020
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