For a discounted price, own both of Mike Anthony's hilariously dark collections chronicling events both fictionalized and true from his wayward youth as a punk in Florida.
 
YOUNG 'TIL I'M OLD: One Floridian punk's odyssey through an underworld of freaks and weirdos as he searches for... something? Mike Anthony's sophomore effort is a memoir of his life as a punk rock kid from Florida, a world his readers know all too well from his debut, Wasteland. But this time the stories are all true. From the bands he started, to the dives he wound up in, this is a hilarious and often poignant collection of tales. Join Mike Anthony for a look at a life misspent among the rabble on the underside of the World's Most Famous Beach.
 
WASTELAND: Daytona Beach. Tourist-choked, trash-strewn, economically stunted - that Daytona Beach. Jeff, George, Ray, and the rest of their friends haunt this place, rotting under the Florida sun, their lives going nowhere as they aimlessly wander a disappearing coastline. These stories of disaffected youth and unfulfilled potential dispel the popular notion of Florida as a paradise and instead ask the reader to look closer. See this place for what it truly is: a subtropical, suburban hellscape where people are born to quit and fester forever. Welcome to the Wasteland.