A piano piece from my student days. These are some of the savory dissonances I was stirring up when I was 18.
Entries from February 2021
Fixative
February 22nd, 2021 · Comments Off on Fixative
Amerigo and Isabella
February 15th, 2021 · 4 Comments
These verses about Amerigo Vespucci and Queen Isabella were originally published in Bedside Nonsense, from Black Scat Books. Here they are set to music, which I recently recorded with a Venezuelan cuatro. Note that for the sake of the meter “Amerigo” is pronounced in Americanese, as I was taught it in school, with the accent […]
Patents Pending
February 8th, 2021 · 2 Comments
Patents Pending is now available from Black Scat Books, and can be obtained on Amazon! The inimitable Derek Pell and I came up with a book chock-full of new inventions. I’ll let Derek give the pitch: The 41st volume in our seminal Absurdist Texts & Documents series has arrived: PATENTS PENDING by Derek Pell and Doug […]
Black Scat Review 21
February 1st, 2021 · Comments Off on Black Scat Review 21
The 21st issue of Black Scat Review is now available from Amazon! My contributions to this special travel issue are a short story, “The Morning Walk,” and translations of two stories by Alphonse Allais, from my upcoming translation of his collection 2 + 2 = 5. I am, mind you, one of many contributors. My […]