In 2002, the nice people at the Fortean Times invited me to give a couple of talks at their annual UnConvention. I gave one on John Keel and the Mothman, tying in with the film that was just released; and the other on the scientific method. At Keel’s request, I introduced a talking frog puppet […]
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UnConvention 2002
November 30th, 2011 · Comments Off on UnConvention 2002
The Underground Mountain Concert in Norway
July 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments
The tune I’ve arranged here was first published in Hamburg in 1740, in a pamphlet by Johann Mattheson: Etwas Neues Unter Der Sonnen! Das Unterirrdische Klippen-Concert in Norwegen. It related the testimony of a certain General Bertuch, who claimed that on Christmas Eve, 1695, he and a small group of musicians were led by a […]
Ukulele Class
July 2nd, 2011 · 2 Comments
I teach ukulele classes; here’s a brief clip of my students and me at a recital, at Brooklyn’s Jalopy Theater. (The clip has subsequently been removed.)
Under the Weather
June 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Under the Weather
I wrote this glum little tune back in 1983, when I was staying in Nancy. It was choreographed by Pam Quinn for a concert at Dance Theater Workshop (in NYC) in 1985. Here’s the first part of it.