Skeeveland: Allan MacDonell in conversation with Cheyann Benedict

Allan MacDonell is the author of the upcoming after-death memoir 'Now That I Am Gone.' His previous books are 'Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine' and 'Punk Elegies: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex and Trial by Angel Dust.' MacDonell studied creative writing at San Francisco State University and was a defining contributor to L.A.'s 'Slash' magazine. Since the turn of the millennium, he's been separating real from fake on Internet platforms such as Buzz Media, Spin Media and Participant Media. He is currently director of TheSkeeve.com. Cheyann Benedict is a serial fashion entrepreneur whose creative impulses refuse to be confined to a single discipline. Benedict achieved her first lifetime achievement score by selling her startup women's T-shirt line C&C California to the Liz Claiborne company in 2005. Since then, the search for new challenges, new forms of expression and deeper artistic fulfillment have taken Cheyann around the world, several times, and deep into her punk rock origins.