An illustrated verse. I also set it to music, so I can sing it as it’s projected.
Entries from September 2012
The Rose
September 20th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Give Me Clouds!
September 18th, 2012 · 2 Comments
I wrote a couple of rounds on snippets from Remy de Gourmont; here’s one of them.
Trash Cash
September 17th, 2012 · Comments Off on Trash Cash
“Trash Cash” was another commission from the Tallgirls. I devised a series of interrelated scenes, accompanied by slides of my drawings. The floor was covered in pennies, which sparkled in the light, and crunched underfoot. I costumed the Tallgirls in white minidresses and go-go boots, which they all looked lovely in. There was also a […]
Shorten the Classics: Inferno
September 13th, 2012 · 4 Comments
I’ve drawn a few one-pagers that present alternate, abbreviated versions of the classics. Here’s Dante’s Inferno.
Fiction
September 12th, 2012 · Comments Off on Fiction
From 1994, clangorous counterpoint travels between the letters of the word “fiction.” We separate narrative into fiction or fact; music deserves the same courtesy.
Index Cards (25)
September 10th, 2012 · 2 Comments
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Dining at the Cafe Plastic
September 6th, 2012 · 2 Comments
In 1984, the Tallgirls (Pamela Boucher, Jill Daly, Harriet Garfinkle, and Marci Paulsen) commissioned me to write a piece for them. I wrote a one-act play about two waitresses and two customers, developing (I hope) a strong comic character for each of them. It was performed at Footwork Dance Studio, in San Francisco, in November […]
The Imponderable Pillar of Worlds
September 5th, 2012 · Comments Off on The Imponderable Pillar of Worlds
A round on an epigram from Benjamin De Casseres.
Modeling for Scarlot Harlot
September 4th, 2012 · 2 Comments
Sometime in the early ’80s, sex work activist Scarlot Harlot asked me to portray a phone sex addict for a slide show she was doing. Naturally, I agreed; I had, after all, a number of prop and toy phones that I used in my shows. She used the images in this birthday card.
Index Cards (24)
September 3rd, 2012 · 4 Comments
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