Bare Naked Wayne

A tell-all self-portrait of a private man, chronicling the author's quest for truth, love, and purpose in life.
Stories include: "Growing Up with Jesus;" "God Sends Maggots;" "Thank God for LSD;" "Tom Washington Shit in My Hat;" "I Burn Miss Utah at the Stake;" "Saving the Great Lakes;" "I Wore Abbie Hoffman's Coat;" "Fake Fred, Secret Salaries, and Rat-tailed Maggots;" his sordid tale of life as the sixth husband of a white witch; and vignettes of rabble-rousing in the '70s and '80s.

His chronicles are frank, sometimes raw or vulgar, and occasionally embarrassing. (For example, "Fortunately, my horrid taste in clothing took some of the focus off my hideous head." Or, his confession that Uncle Sam once officially diagnosed him as a "non-aggressive sociopathic sex deviant (with a hernia).") All are true, the author swears, insofar as it's possible to tell the bare naked truth about yourself.

Here, then, is the life of Wayne (the first half of it) -- sometime environmentalist and one-time land developer, Jesus freak and atheist, hippie-mailman draft dodger and newspaper reporter, recluse and family guy -- "Bare Naked Wayne."