I sometimes read this asemic list poem out in San Francisco, back in the ’70s.      

[Read more →]

I delivered something like the following at an event called “Bigfoot Night,” curated by Kevin Maher and Meg Sweeney Lawless, at the Sci Fi Screening Room in NYC, November 17, 2008.

[Read more →]

I wrote and performed “A Campaign Speech” for “The General Election Rally Vote Ballot,” an event curated by Mel Brimfield for the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2007.  I appeared via DVD, videoed by Anthony Matt.

[Read more →]

[Read more →]

Mark Maynard thought this up for his zine Crimewave USA.  I bear Marilyn Vos Savant no ill will; I hope she learned something.  I also did this on stage once, with Michael O’Connor reading the questions, at the late lamented Surf Reality in NYC.  

[Read more →]

For my last FortFest appearance, I gave a talk on some drawings by contactees that John Keel collected and circulated in the ’60s.  I posted most of it over on the Keel site.

[Read more →]

The Ullage Group deserves a mention on this site. Anthony Matt and I had contemplated forming a Fortean Society, along the lines of John Keel’s old group, and like those currently meeting in pubs in Dublin and Edinburgh. We finally opted for a semi-fortean group, and chose as our emblem “ullage,” a fine old word […]

[Read more →]

For the 2006 UnConvention, the annual convention organized by the Fortean Times in London, I gave a talk on “Evolution and Pop Culture,” and presented a “Cabinet of Musical Curiosities.”  Here’s the line-up; I was in fine company..

[Read more →]

In 2002, I gave a talk about John Keel and the Mothman Prophecies (with, I add, his blessing) at the Fortean Times UnConvention and at the FortFest held by the International Fortean Organization.  The idea was to drum up interest in the movie — and, more particularly, the book.  Dave Singer has posted the INFO […]

[Read more →]

For the 1996 FortFest, the annual gathering of the International Fortean Organization, I delivered a talk on John Dee, that intriguing Elizabethan polymath.  I had already composed and performed a song cycle based on Dee’s dream diary; so when Phyllis Benjamin, the head of INFO, suggested a Dee talk, I took his dreams as a […]

[Read more →]