Today we introduce a new blogger on ArtsJournal. Tommy Tompkins has worked as a letter carrier, autoworker, cabbie, and songwriter, and has spent two decades working in the alternative press, the last 13 years as arts editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian. His pungent writing on popular culture offers the insights of someone - as he puts it - "born without mid-range responses." His new blog is called extreme measures. Check it out.