A couple of busted up cars and emergency vehicles were arrayed on the side of the 4th Street on-ramp to I-275 in St. Pete this morning. It was bound to happen — actually, it’s probably happened a bunch, I just happened to witness this particular wreck. I take that on-ramp most every morning, and from now on I’m calling it Maniac’s Curve.

This article appears in May 21-27, 2008.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...