{{short description|American novelist}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2014}} {{infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]] --> | image = Ron Garmon at a reading in Echo Park, Los Angeles, 2014.jpg | name = Ron Garmon | occupation = {{flatlist| * Journalist * writer * [[rock critic]] }} | nationality = American | genre = [[Music journalism]], [[speculative fiction]], [[horror fiction|horror]] | pseudonym = Rocky Redglare }}
'''Ron Garmon''' is an American journalist, rock critic, and short story writer who served as Arts Editor for [[LA CityBeat|''L.A. CityBeat'']] during its last year of publication, 2007 to 2008.<ref name="lacitybeat">{{cite web | url = http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/06/citybeats_remake.php | title = CityBeat's Remake | first = Kevin | last = Roderick | date = June 4, 2008 | publisher = LA Observed | access-date = June 21, 2008 }}</ref> He resides in Los Angeles.<ref name="boyleheights">{{cite web | url = http://laeastside.com/2008/09/the-best-thing-about-boyle-heights-some-white-guy/ | title = The Best Thing About Boyle Heights? Some White Guy | first = El | last = Chavo | date = September 25, 2008 | publisher = LA Eastside | access-date = June 21, 2008 }}</ref>
Garmon's lyrical, oft-hallucinatory writings have been a fixture in L.A. rock journalism since the late 1990s through his scene columns in ''Mean Street'',<ref name="meanstreet"> {{cite journal |author= Garmon, Ron |year= 2007 |title= Bad Religion |journal= Mean Street |publisher= Mean Street Magazine, LLC |issue= 111 |url= http://www.meanstreet.com/article.php?article_id=593&issue_id=111 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080602093602/http://www.meanstreet.com/article.php?article_id=593&issue_id=111 |archive-date= June 2, 2008 |df= mdy-all }}</ref> ''[[L.A. Record]]'', and ''[[LA CityBeat|L.A. CityBeat]]''. While at ''L.A. CityBeat'', Garmon interviewed [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Edward Albee]], [[Carl Reiner]] and many more. Garmon's cover stories followed L.A.'s underground music scene, bringing to light the trashing of the iconic [[Morrison Hotel]], and investigating the fate of long-vanished cult movie director [[Tom Graeff]]. He's possibly L.A.'s first [[medical marijuana]] critic, reviewing dispensaries and strains in the print edition of the ''[[L.A. Record]]''. He contributed live music reviews, and under the heading 'Hear This While High' recommended pairings of recordings and marijuana strains, to the ''[[SF Weekly]]'' music blog "All Shook Down".<ref name="allshookdown">{{cite web | url = http://blogs.sfweekly.com/author.php?author_id=2218 | title = Author Page for SF Weekly – Ron Garmon }}</ref> 1" His byline has appeared in the [[Los Angeles Times|Los Angeles ''Times'']], ''[[Famous Monsters of Filmland]]'', ''Famous Monsters Underground #1'',<ref>{{cite web |url= http://hellnotes.com/famous-monsters-underground-1 |title = Hellnotes: Famous Monsters Underground #1}}</ref> ''Brand X'', ''[[Utne Reader]]'', ''The Tracking Angle'', ''[[Scarlet Street (magazine)|Scarlet Street]]'', ''New Angeles Monthly'', and the ''Heinlein Journal''. Examples of Garmon's approach to the rock LP can be found in ''Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed''.<ref name="grooves">{{cite book |title= Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed|year= 2004|editor1= Kim Cooper |editor2=David Smay|publisher= Routledge|isbn= 978-0-415-96998-7|pages= 288|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=o4wRvuoA0QYC&q=Ron+Garmon|access-date=June 24, 2010}}</ref> He wrote liner notes for the CD reissues of ''The Best of [[Spirit (band)|Spirit]]'' and four [[Bootsy Collins]] albums.<ref name="bootsy">{{cite web|url = http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/003726.html|title = Four Albums of Classic Funk from Bootsy Collins to be Reissued by Collectors' Choice|last = Baker|first = Cary|date = September 13, 2007|publisher = Modern Guitars Magazine|access-date = June 21, 2008|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080706111154/http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/003726.html|archive-date = July 6, 2008|df = mdy-all}}</ref>
His speculative fiction is published in ''Paraphilia''<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Garmon |first1= Ron |year= 2009|title= The Ape That Exploded |journal= Paraphilia |publisher= Paraphilia Books |editor1= Díre McCain |editor2=D. M. Mitchell |volume=1 |issue=5 |page= 243|url= http://issuu.com/paraphiliamagazine/docs/paraphilia_five/243}}</ref> and ''Antique Children''.<ref name="aqc"> {{cite journal |last1= Garmon |first1= Ron |year= 2010 |title= Headsman's Apology |journal= Antique Children |publisher= AQC Books |editor= Jim Lopez |volume= 1 |issue= 1 |page= 190 |url= http://www.beerlivery.com/jimlopez/spit.html |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110707221921/http://www.beerlivery.com/jimlopez/spit.html |archive-date= July 7, 2011 |df= mdy-all }} </ref> Garmon and fellow science fiction writer [[Brad Linaweaver]] were 2002 nominees for the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for one of their "Left Brain/Right Brain" features in ''Cult Movies Magazine''. His 1998 ''RetroVision'' article<ref name="watkins">{{cite web |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071224171451/http://picpal.com/peterwatkins.html|archive-date= December 24, 2007 |title= Peter Watkins Blows Up The World: The War Game Revisited |author= Garmon, Ron |year=1998 |access-date=June 24, 2010|url=http://picpal.com/peterwatkins.html}}</ref> on radical filmmaker [[Peter Watkins]] was cited in ''A Companion to Science Fiction''.<ref name="sfcred">{{cite book |title= A Companion to Science Fiction|last= Seed|first= David|year= 2005|publisher= Wiley-Blackwell|isbn= 978-1-4051-1218-5|page= 304|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HO_z5WFKwpoC&q=Ron+Garmon|access-date=June 24, 2010}}</ref>
In 1999, Garmon and ex-''[[Scarlet Street (magazine)|Scarlet Street]]'' publisher [[Jessie Lilley]] founded ''Worldly Remains: A Pop Culture Review'',<ref name="remains">{{cite web | url = http://www.moviemags.com/main.php?title=WORLDLY%20REMAINS&etos=% | title = Worldly Remains | access-date = June 21, 2008 }}</ref> which ran eight issues before folding in 2004. Popular culture icons such as [[Michael Parks]], [[Ivan Dixon]], [[Frankie Smith]], [[Robert Quarry]], [[Keith Morris]], [[Gloria Hendry]], and [[John Quade]] gave uncensored interviews. There was much quirky coverage of retromedia, and reporting on bizarre public events such as the 2000 [[Reform Party USA|Reform Party]] Convention.
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