Joe Donahoe

Born in 1969, the year of the Tet Offensive, Woodstock and the Appolo moon landings, an Aries fire sign.Joes'parents were fundamentalist right wing Irish Catholics and his older siblings (six of them) were pseudo hippies, in rebellion, perhaps, against their father, a former Marine and veteran of the Korean War.Joe grew up in Fresno, California, a hot dystopian middle American farm town and went to Catholic school taught by Spanish sisters. He attended clothing optional UC Santa Cruz where Black Panther Huey Newton had gotten his PhD in the History of Consciousness and since he's never shyed away from controversy in the very left wing environment he got a job writing for the campus Republican newspaper. Joe earned a degree in English and American literature and moved to San Francisco where he ended up writing for the punk rock magazine Maximum Rock&Roll, working as a bus boy, bar back, copy shop clerk/technician, volunteer for the SF needle exchange, sheet rocker, short order cook, dish washer, punk rock DJ and freelance journalist for The New Mission News and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He's have been a taxi driver for ten years with Luxor Cab, a tour guide on Alcatraz for six months and has raced in several half marathons. Species magazine (www.speciousspecies.com) is a magazine Donohoe started as a web page several years ago dedicated to "preservation of disciplined minds in an era of spiritual staganation." It features interviews with Elaine Pagels, author of the Gnostic Gospels; Christian Parenti, author of books about the prison industry as well as Iraq and Afghanistan; Kevin Epps, an African American documentary film maker who chronicles the life of poor San Francisco; AC Thompson, a Polk Award winning journalist who writes of life in urban public housing and police corruption; John Shirley, the founder of the "cyberpunk" genre of science fiction and many others. Joe iscurrently trying to get into nursing school and write a n