Patrick J. Sauer Online

You know I am a Universal Record Holder, right?

Well, I am also a Universal Records Blogger. 

I aim to set the record for "Most Interviews With People Who Set More Challenging Records Than I."

First up, Alon Mass. He's a young medical student who can play the holy living hell out of Labyrnith. 

Let's get the ball rolling...

I can't recommend this book highly enough. It's a great look at rural life in the United States as its lived now, free of "flyover states" condescension and "real America" sanctimony. So, you should read my interview with author Nick Reding below, join in the lively urban vs. rural discussion at the Huffington Post, then buy Methland from Powell's, a bookstore everyone can agree upon.

In 1999, as a journalist for magazines like Outside and Harper's, Nick Reding noticed that crystal methamphetamine was becoming part of everyday life across America. He saw the problem in small towns everywhere, acutely understood by locals, ignored nationally. The more Reding looked, the more he saw, saying, "I began to get the feeling that the drug was somehow following me around." Out of a decade of research, an all-encompassing examination of the how the epidemic came to be and who shares the blame, came Methland.