The Lord is My Shephard and He Knows I'm Gay.]]> Musician, writer, filmmaker and activist Michael Simmons was dubbed “The Father Of Country Punk” by Creem magazine in the 1970s. He was an editor of the National Lampoon in the ’80s where he wrote the popular column “Drinking Tips And Other War Stories” and won an LA Press Club Award in the ’90s for his investigative journalism for the LA Weekly. He has written for MOJO, Rolling Stone, Penthouse, LA Weekly, The New York Times, LA Times, High Times, Artillery, CounterPunch, The Rag Blog, The Progressive and Dangerous Minds and has scribed liner notes for Bob Dylan, Michael Bloomfield, Phil Ochs, Kris Kristofferson, Mose Allison, Kinky Friedman, Arthur Lee & Love and Paul Krassner. He wrote and co-produced the documentary The Real Rocky about boxer Chuck Wepner.]]>