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"Through him we can hear that stubborn, restless voice of the hardscrabble pilgrim that runs through American life..."
- Garrison Keillor
"His maxim is to embrace the extreme and to seek resistance not so much out of conflict but as a source of inspiration...it is hard not to root for and celebrate an individual whose own saga rivals most fiction today..."
- San Francisco Chronicle
"Neutrino's resume resembles a Jackson Pollock painting...the second man to cross the Atlantic on a raft, and the first to do so on a raft made of garbage. Before floating across the Atlantic, for 20 years Neutrino led various bands of free spirits on journeys by car and raft across America, making a living by painting signs and playing music...made Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady's epic cross country trips look like Sunday school outings. You might expect such a character to be half-crazed, his brain fried by solitude and insecurity and the weirdness of living an aboriginal life in a nine to five world. But Neutrino comes across as almost alarmingly lucid."
- The New York Times
"The compelling thing about Neutrino's story is that behind the messy cacophony of his life events lies a set of principles that throw up a bracing challenge to those of us more comfortable with the 'normal' life...Neutrino despises the passivity and defeatism with which he thinks most people live. He worries that materialism clogs the soul and embraces moments of crisis because only then, he believes, we achieve our highest potential."
- The Christian Science Monitor
Poppa: I'm looking forward to getting on the road, heading for the Pacific, getting a new raft started, heading to China by the 2008 Olympics.
Jerry: Are there others going with you?
Poppa: Going alone. Well, I'll have my dog with me.
Jerry: You have a dog with you. Is that solitude?
Poppa: No, not if you're capable of having a conversation with the dog. And the dog has a conversation with me. And I have a conversation with the dog. It's a great relationship.
Jerry: Do you ever pick up people's thoughts? Do images come into your mind, then you don't understand why they're there and then something may have happened elsewhere. Does that ever happen?
Poppa: Oh yes, just constantly happening. I get a shudder down my spine. I'll stop and get an image.
Jerry: You're connected to so many people.
Poppa: We all are, except we block it out.
Jerry: Talk about the origin of your name.
Poppa: I was looking for a name that would fit my personality. And when I heard about neutrinos--they couldn't find them, and it took 50 light years of lead to stop one, I thought, that's me, I'm a Neutrino.
Stockton, California - May 1, 2007 : Presidential Candidate Taps Poppa Neutrino for Secretary of Transportation (LISTEN)
Ain't Misbehavin' (LISTEN) Poppa Neutrino, vocals and guitar
Love Me Tender (LISTEN) Poppa Neutrino, vocals; Ron Reimer, accordion
There's No Business Like Show Business (LISTEN) Billy X. Curmano and the New X Art Ensemble featuring the Amazing Tess Toster Tones. Live vocal by Poppa Neutrino.
For more information on this exciting new radio show, contact Jerry Modjeski @ jmodjeski@mtsradio.com
Click on the photo to hear a special message from Poppa Neutrino about his radio show!
MTS producer Jerry Modjeski and Poppa Neutrino on Wolf Spider Island.
Photo courtesy of Suzn
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Last updated June 4, 2007