I’ve been trying a little witnessed consciousness of late, hoping to get a better handle on that age-old question, “Daddy, where do jokes come from?”
What I discovered surprised me. This isn’t true every time, but a lot of the … Read on Macduff...
Month: September 2007
Title for My Upcoming Novel:
“The Sun Also Ebbs”
My wife sez, I thought
we were supposed
to need less sleep
when we got older.
Big letters in the window of a used car shop in Northern California
“75 years, same coffee.”
Don’t trust fancy coffee drinkers, they’re saying.
Or at least, do trust people who are constant
— fixed, unflinching
with scorched taste buds.
Give your money to the folks who say
Go to hell, cappuccino. Go … Read on Macduff...
World Premiere: “Mankind’s Last Hope” Theme Song
Some of you already know that my pal Jeff Green and I co-wrote a post-apocalyptic workplace situation comedy called “Mankind’s Last Hope,” and that this sitcom is being staged in the SF Bay Area for two weekends starting October 26th. … Read on Macduff...
Yaaaar, this be an amusing slice of streaming vid
I thought I was completely burned out on the whole Talk Like a Pirate Day thing, and then I bumped into this lovely gem, which is worth playing just for the music:
… Read on Macduff...
I’ll admit it
I ate a chocolate whopper today. A cookie that was so chocolatey that
in the molecular space where there’s usually air
or maybe some kind of eerie vacuum
with a faint ringing tone
there was no air or vacuum. There … Read on Macduff...
Am I the only one
who’s been worried about whether, in this post-9/11 world, what with the war, and the economy, and health care, and the general state of things, the cable news channels still had it in them to babble on and on (and … Read on Macduff...
Sweet Caroline — Jonathan Coulton cover
Caught the Coulton show in SF Friday night with xian and so-called Bill. Excellent fun. The highlight for me was a swank encore cover of Sweet Caroline. Here’s some footage of said cover from the LA show, which I … Read on Macduff...
My latest million-dollar-idea
A mash-up of the brilliant Parliament Funkadelic with the soaring solo work of Art Garfunkel:
Parliament Garfunkadelic.