A piano piece, all in the middle octave of the keyboard: G3 to G4, extended briefly to F#3 to G#4 every ninth measure.

In this song from “Doug and Mike’s Adult Entertainment,” I gave the recipe for our signature cocktail, the Gibsonetto, while Michael Smith followed the directions. It was a Gibson made with Amaretto instead of gin; in the puppet show that followed, Doug and Mike explained to their horrified guests that “it’s really not that sweet.”

An alphabet that’s both categorical and musical.

HORN

Alphorn
Bullhorn
Car Horn
Drinking Horn
English Horn
French Horn
Greenhorn
Horn
Inkhorn
Jawhorn
Krummhorn
Leghorn
Matterhorn
New Horn
Old Horn
Pronghorn
Quadruple Horn
Ramshorn
Stinkhorn
Tinhorn
Überhorn
Valve Horn
Waldhorn
Xanthohorn
Yak Horn
Zink

Corinne Taunay’s chapbook Marcel Duchamp: Paris Air in New York, in my translation, is displayed in the window of Les Ateliers du Tayrac in Paris, on the occasion of her show of portraits of artists and writers. It’s small, but you can see it at the bottom of the left window, if you click on the photo for a larger image.

What’s Christmas without frankincense? I wrote this for Meg Reichardt’s annual Holiday Recording Party, and recorded it with Brian Dewan at the controls. It marks my debut on the bass recorder. Here’s the first page, and you can listen to it here.

For the first issue of Typo, a stereoscopic word ladder.

The apparently tireless Norman Conquest (aka Derek Pell) has started a new magazine. It’s called TYPO, which he describes as a “Journal of Lettrism, Surrealist Semantics, and Constrained Design.” He and Farewell Debut are the editors, and I’m on the masthead for “Special Collections.” I contributed a stereoscopic word ladder, as well as brief articles on Masonic cipher rituals, mnemonic alphabets, and monograms from the Italian Renaissance. You’ll also find delightful material on asemic poetry, French graffiti, summantics, Dada typography, and other topics from Marc-Alain Barbot, Tom Barrett, Michael Betancourt, Isabelle B.L, Restif de la Bretonne, Mamie Caton, Caroline Crépiat, Art Dandy, Ange Degheest, Jean-Pierre Duffour, Luc Fierens, Jack Granath, Isidore Isou, Amy Kurman, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Giambattista Palatino, Raymond Queneau, Reese Saxment, Karen Shaw, Corinne Taunay, John J. Trause, Tristan Tzara, Cal Wenby, and Femke van der Wijk.

And you can find it on Amazon!

There’s an interview with Derek Pell here, and a review here.

This is the centennial of the death of Marcel Proust (November 18, 1922). Here, then, is my version of In Search of Lost Time, from Shorten the Classics. It saves Marcel a lot of work.