Durango and Riley after Big Black

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Durango, meanwhile, continued to play music during his law school years, releasing two EPs on Touch and Go as Arsenal and recording with Boss Hog . He then became a practicing lawyer , with clients including Touch and Go Records and Cynthia Plaster Caster . Riley recorded tracks with the groups Algebra Suicide, Bull, and Flour before being incapacitated by a stroke in 1995, which was initially erroneously reported as a suicide attempt. Having lost the ability to walk, he authored a blog about his experiences titled “Worthless Goddamn Cripple”. In 2004 he participated in a musical project called Miasma of Funk, releasing the album Groove on the Mania! , and in 2006 published the book Blurry and Disconnected: Tales of Sink-or-Swim Nihilism .