No Fun: How Punk Rock Saved My Life is an anti-memoir about growing up punk in a hostile world of abusive and negligent parents, bullies, institutionalized education, formulaic psychiatry and the bureaucratic red tape of the foster care system. From East LA to the backwoods of Alabama, from a mental hospital to a university and eventually to the streets of New Orleans and San Francisco, the author struggles to resolve his traumas and find a place...