Randy Smith – Medium

Pinned

Randy Smith
in
Rock n’ Heavy

Why Gary Numan’s “Cars” is My #1 Transportation Song, And What It Says About LA

Photo by me from Cruel World Festival 2023

3 min readMay 12, 2024

--

1

View of the stage. Black and white photo taken from the audience perspective.

--

1

Pinned

Randy Smith

Nuclear Waste Is The Most Dangerous Homeless Problem In the United States

4 min readApr 7, 2024

--

Nuclear Waste Is The Most Dangerous Homeless Problem In the United States

--

Pinned

Randy Smith
in
Rock n’ Heavy

One of the Godfathers of Punk Rock Was An Arab American

How The Inventor Of Surf Rock Started A Revolution Thanks Ro Some Help From Arabic Roots

4 min readMar 23, 2024

--

85

One of the Godfathers of Punk Rock Was An Arab American

--

85

Pinned

Randy Smith

Why I’m a Film Noir Junkie

The attraction. It’s magnetic. I didn’t know why. I resisted it because I just want to be happy. And to be surrounded by happiness. Or at…

4 min readOct 15, 2018

--

2

Why I’m a Film Noir Junkie

--

2

Pinned

Randy Smith

Racism Is Alive In Huntington Beach, California…But Maybe So Is Hope

The 1990s Were Tough To Be Diverse in HB, But Maybe It’s a Little Better Today

3 min readApr 12, 2021

--

1

Racism Is Alive In Huntington Beach, California…But Maybe So Is Hope

--

1

Randy Smith

Robot Racism? Yeah, It’s A Thing

4 min readJan 30, 2024

--

1

Robot Racism? Yeah, It’s A Thing

--

1

Randy Smith

My 2024 New Year’s Resolution Is To Write About The Arab American Experience

In the desert of positive things some may think about Arab Americans, I will be a light

6 min readJan 1, 2024

--

My 2024 New Year’s Resolution Is To Write About The Arab American Experience

--

Randy Smith

Khan: The Savior of The Star Trek Franchise and A Warning For Our Own Fragile Future

8 min readJul 2, 2023

--

1

Khan: The Savior of The Star Trek Franchise and A Warning For Our Own Fragile Future

--

1

Randy Smith

A Single Minute Can Change Everything

That’s how many minutes there are in a year. And a single one can change a life.

4 min readJun 10, 2023

--

1

A Single Minute Can Change Everything

--

1

Randy Smith

Generation X-ers Are Going Through Their Midlife Crises Differently Than Boomers

I’m a hardcore Gen-Xer. Having been lucky enough to have born in 1977, the year the Atar 2600 was first released commercially, and the…

3 min readMar 21, 2023

--

Generation X-ers Are Going Through Their Midlife Crises Differently Than Boomers

--

Randy Smith

Randy Smith

This is my pen name. I am the author of The Raffle Novel and other random musings about our semi-dystopian world: https://bit.ly/theraffle

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams