(Picture taken at Al's Bar in downtown Los Angeles, CA on Jan. 29, 1998 at one of the CasioTones' first gigs)

RD Armstrong AKA Raindog

Born in the obscurity of 1950s America, RD (Raindog to his friends), grew up to be a likeable, if not slighty dim bulb. He's spent most of his life in and around Los Angeles, working on his "PHD" (Post Hole Digger) making a modest living in the home repair & fix-it ouvre. Armed with limited education, a hunger for experience and a thirst for knowledge, RD has become something of a poetry maven over the last few years. Calling himself a "Road" scholar, the intrepid Raindog has gone to places that few ever dream of (unless you count nightmares). And yes, he's a Tom Waits fan.

Publisher / editor / writer - The Lummox Journal (monthly, small press magazine exploring the creative process in the arts - twenty-two dollars for twelve issues - since 1996)

RECENT BOOKS BY RD ARMSTRONG

The San Pedro Poems (Published on the occasion of my 50th birthday from Lummox Press - Six Dollars / Ten Dollars with CD - 2001)

Creator of the Little Red Book series

Author / publisher of LRB #1 - "Fool's Paradise" (poetry & short fiction - Five Dollars - 1998)

Author / publisher of LRB #2 - "El Pagano" (explicit short story - Five Dollars - 1998)

Publisher of LRB #3 - "Equal Opportunity Sledge Hammer" (poetry by Scott Wannberg w/ intro by Ellyn Maybe - Six Dollars - 1999... now in it's 5th printing!)

Designer of the Scott Wannberg "Lummox of the Year 1999" T-shirt (XL - Fifteen Dollars)

Co-author / publisher of LRB #4 - "Bone" (poetry w/ Todd Moore - Six Dollars - 1999)

Author / publisher of "The Manx Tales" (micro fiction - Six Dollars - 1999)

Ed / Pub of LRB #5 - "Meat Eater" (micro fiction by Bill Shields - three Dollars - 1999)

Ed / Pub of LRB #6 - "Scar Tissue" (poetry by AD Winans - three Dollars -1999)

Ed / Pub of LRB #7 - "Apology To The Idiots" (poetry by Laura Joy Lustig - three dollars - 1999)

Ed / Pub / Contributer to LRB #8 - "Eyes Like Mingus" (jazz poetry collection featuring over 15 poets - Six dollars - 1999)

Ed / Pub of LRB #9 - "Remembering Bukowski" (poetry by A.D. Winans, longtime pal of hank's - Six dollars - 1999)

Author / Pub of LRB #10 - "A Journey Up The Coast" (narrative poem about a trip to San Francisco and beyond by RD Armstrong - Six dollars - 1999)

Ed / Pub of LRB #11 - "The Lummox Sampler" (examples of the variety of poets Lummox publishes - Six dollars - 1999)

Ed / Pub of LRB #12 - "The Inside-Out World Of B.Z. Niditch" (poetry, fiction and a play by the same - Six dollars - 1999)

Ed / Pub of LRB #13 - "Hang Gliding On X" (poetry about insanity & patient's rights by Scott C. Holstad - Six dollars - 1999)

Ed / Pub of LRB #14 - "Any Abyss Will Do" (poetry & fiction by William Taylor, Jr. - Three dollars - 1999)

Ed / Pub of LRB #15 - "There's Blood On The Floor" (poetry by nationally published poet, normal - Six dollars - 1999)

Ed / Pub of LRB #16 - "Maytag Heights" (a collection of some twenty poets from around the USA, Israel & Singapore about the homeless; a fundraising effort for Habitat For Humanity - Out of Print - 1999)

Ed / Pub of LRB #17 - "Me" (gender bending poetry by Hugh/Connie Fox - four dollars - 2000)

Ed / Pub of LRB #18 - "The Iceberg Theory & Other Poems" (the "King" of the small press, Gerald Locklin, gives the reader a casual tour of "toad's world" - Six dollars - 2000)

Ed / Pub of LRB #19 - "No Earthly Sense Gets It Right" (poems about family & passages by Linda Lerner - Six dollars - 2000)

Ed / Pub of LRB #20 - "The Corpse Is Dreaming" (another chapter in Todd Moore's epic saga of John Dillinger - Six dollars - 2000)

Author / Pub of LRB #22 - "Paper Heart #3" (more explorations of "that loving feeling" by Raindog / RD Armstrong w/ illustrations by Claudio Parentela - Out of Print - 2000)

Ed / Pub of LRB #23 - "BLue Collar Work" (Errol Miller's take on manual labor- Four dollars - 2000)

Ed / Pub of LRB #24 - "Apollo's Motorcycle" (Frank Lonabaugh - Three dollars - 2000)

Ed / Pub of LRB #25 - "Nomads of Oblivion" (Scott Wannberg, the Zen Boogie Master's second collection - made the L.A. Times Bestseller list #10 spot in Oct. 2000! - Six dollars - 2000)

Ed / Pub of LRB #26 - "Bombed in New Mexico" (Todd Moore and Mark Weber, the Poet Larriats of ABQ, NM - Six dollars - 2000)

Author / Pub of LRB #27 - "On/Off the Beaten Path" (ride along with RD Armstrong as he trips out to ABQ, NM - Six dollars - 2000)

Ed / Pub of LRB #28 - "Lost Highway" (A Blues poetry anthology featuring Tony Moffeit, Lawrence Welsh, RD Armstrong, AD Winans, Todd Moore, John Macker, Rick Smith, Linda Lerner and others - Six dollars - 2000)

Ed / Pub of LRB #29 - "2001 Lummox Book of Days" (Calendar w/ maxims by B.Z. Niditch- Out of Print - 2000)

Ed / Pub of LRB #30 - "Cajun Flavored Mayonaise" (First time published, Rene Diedrich - Six dollars - 2000)

Ed / Pub of LRB #31 - "Feeding the Animal" (Last collection published of John Thomas' work - Six dollars - 2001)

Ed / Pub of LRB #32 - "Book of Maxims" (B.Z. Niditch - Three dollars - 2001)

Ed / Pub of LRB #33 - "Familiarities" (Gerald Locklin & Patricia Cherin - Six dollars - 2001)

Ed / Pub of LRB #34 - "The Queen of Bohemia" (Philomene Long - Six dollars - 2001)

Ed / Pub of LRB #35 - "Cold Eye Burning" (Philomene Long- Six dollars - 2001)

Ed / Pub of LRB #36 - "New Shouts at Broken Dreams" (Lawrence Welsh - Six dollars - 2001)

Ed / Pub of LRB #37 - "Late Night on the Psych Ward" (Belinda Subraman - Six dollars - 2001)

Ed / Pub of LRB #38 - "bakersfield '99" (Take the long way home with Lindsay Wilson - Six dollars - 2001)

Ed / Pub of LRB #39 - "Piss Talks" (Harry Wilkens - Four dollars - 2001)

Ed / Pub of LRB #40 - "Death & Transfiguration Cocktail" (Alan Catlin invites you to pick your libation - Six dollars - 2001)

Ed / Pub of LRB #41 - "Poems of the Royal Concubine Li Xi" (Lummox of the Year Leonard J. Cirino's interpretation of the loves of Li Xi - Six dollars - 2002)

Author / Pub of LRB #42 - "Paper Heart #4" (Raindog's guide to lovin' the ladies - Six dollars - 2002)

Ed / Pub / Contrib to the LUMMOX 2000 Calendar (12 poems, 12 drawings by Claudio Parantela - Out of Print - 2000)

Ed / Pub of Little Red Books Master Series #1 - "The Wren Notebook" (poetry by Rick Smith in this unique, illustrated edition - Ten dollars - 2000)

Author / Pub of "Paper Heart - Vol. 2" (love poetry - Eight Dollars - 1999)

Editor / Pub of "Dufus" (poetry anthology, Vol. 1 - Six Dollars - 1998)

Author of "In Memoriam" (poetry - Inevitable Press - Five Dollars - 1997)

Founding member of the "CasioTones" (a surrealistic pillow for your dada) -- 3 different CDs available (all recorded LIVE - Ten Dollars each or 3 for Twenty Dollars)

NEW from Lummox!