Ruby Dee Philippa: PUNK STORYTELLER
Dive into Ruby’s tales of life as a punk on the streets of San Francisco back in the day. Most of the stories are more or less true…
bag of tricks trilogy
Bag of Tricks is a compilation of short stories about San Francisco punks in the early 80’s
latest posts
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Brooklyn Book Festival incentive
If you purchase all three books from the BAG OF TRICKS Trilogy from me at the Brooklyn Book Festival Sunday September 27th, not only will I sign all your copies, but give you a nifty punk tote in which you can haul them away!
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What’s Next?
I’m so excited about everything going on right now. My publicist is rocking and rolling, gearing up to finally get press out there about the books. We have an assistant coming on board to help with all of the social media stuff (yay not me!). I’m doing my due diligence for the Grammy nod- reaching…
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Turning it ON
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaxiV6xyeNJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== It feels like a new season for damned sure 🙂 I found an incredible publicist, Lara Starr, who is not only willing to take on a project that should have been publicized over a year ago, but is helping me to re-shape all my media stuff. She’s amazing- making me learn new things and…
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How fucking pissed off are you?
All it takes to bring out the I suppose not too buried punk in me is to read the fucking news. How much like the 80’s is this when Reagan was tearing into the fabric of American society? Crazy enough, I miss those days. How pissed off do you have to be to start a…
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Old Captain Ahab
On my way home from an old friend’s memorial in MI this past weekend, I got a call from my mom that my papa was in the hospital with severe oxygen restriction and they didn’t know why. I was stuck in the teensy Traverse City airport with my flight already delayed by 2+ hours to…
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Sadly, Publicity Counts
Hi all- here’s my rant regarding how even in a punk rock world, publicity still counts in the end. I had hired our old publicist from my band, RUBY DEE AND THE SNAKEHANDLERS, to handle publicity for all three books, launch by launch, but she fell off the face of the earth, and never did…
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Ox Bot Review
In Deutsh no less 🙂
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TAKE EFFECT REVIEW
RUBY DEE PHILIPPA February 10, 2026 Bag Of Tricks Earth Island, 2025 9/10 Read About Bag Of Tricks Most of my knowledge about punk rock life in San Francisco in the ‘80s comes from reading Maximum RocknRoll and the words of Larry Livermore and Ace Backwords. The stories they told made it seem like the…
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Just Checking In
I know I’ve been pretty much radio silent since I came back from running around the West Coast and ATX and such last year. I just started working on a new movie, so I’ve been concentrating on that. But in a few weeks, I’ll be heading to Pittsburgh to read to all my pals there,…
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OX Fanzine Review
I just got what I hope is a great review in OX Fanzine, though I can’t read German so…
