At Loyola, his eye for the absurd found a feast in the French Quarter; his interview series, Quarter Confessions, eventually birthed his memoir-zine, All Gas, No Brakes, a document of a 70-day hitchhiking journey across America.
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Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2026
Your journey may not be as dramatic as Bob Dylan hitchhiking from Minnesota to Greenwich Village.
Economist Jayati Ghosh, who researched India's COVID response, estimates some 80 million migrant workers tried to return home, walking and hitching rides in searing summer heat.
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Diaa Hadid,
NPR,
10 Apr. 2026
Clayton Club Saloon — which developed a reputation as a rowdy cowboy bar, decked out with boots hanging from the ceiling and hitching posts outside — anchored the small city’s downtown.
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Mario Cortez,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Apr. 2026
Val Kilmer’s performance as this trickster poet forever thumbing his nose at reality embodies the movie’s tensions.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2026
For months, this young, rambunctious, and altogether infectious bunch played with house money, thumbing their collective noses at the idea of another year of rebuild futility.
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