Bio
I lived in San Francisco my entire adult life, except two years in the 1980s when I was teaching English in Japan. I moved to SF from Texas, where I went to high school in the Houston suburbs, and college at UT-Austin (Picture). There I wrote movie reviews for the school newspaper, the Daily Texan, in 1976-78.
In SF I have been an office temp, a bike messenger dispatcher, a delivery driver, and a high school teacher. After teaching in Japan (picture), back in SF I did a little more teaching and a lot more temping, and then — fatefully — I started working at tech companies, and I never did anything useful again. I worked in localization, then documentation, for 20 years. It was lucrative, though!
Until 1995, I performed/wrote/choreographed dance and performance art. I wrote a bunch of songs during this period and performed them in tiny theaters, clubs (picture), and the Great American Music Hall.
From 1990-1994, my then (now late) spouse Cris Gutierrez (picture) put out Frighten the Horses zine. Subtitled “a document of the sexual revolution,“ FTH contained news, essays, and fiction about politics and sex. I started writing stories and books.
Now 45 years after last being paid for a movie review, I am writing about movies again. It’s free for you and for me. Nothing being charged here. It’s just fun for me.
And after 44 years in San Francisco, I moved with Anna to Reno.
My website: markpritchard.net
(19 August 2023)
This Substack site (newsletter? blog? I can’t keep up) is a place to publish longer-than-a-tweet pieces, at least as long as Twitter is dying and Substack remains, which will probably be just a few years, because we all know how these things go.
Topics: movies, my city San Francisco, maybe music once in a while, we’ll see.
(30 September 2023)
Okay, now that I’ve been doing this for 6 weeks or so, I’m a little more certain about what I’m up to, so far.