I will eat pizza and oversized subs and drink soda. We’ll tear stretch rubber masks off cranky senior delinquents. They have their complaints. I have complaints too. You don’t see me acting out. Snoopy and Scoob will tug and growl…
Author: Cecil Vortex
An Interview with Ze Frank
Welcome!: This interview is part of an ongoing series of chats with artists about their creative process. You can find the full set of interviews, including musicians Van Dyke Parks and Jonathan Coulton, and SF Chron columnist Jon Carroll, all…
Prelude
The coffeeshop is fluttering today. Six or seven denim-coated guy-legs shock the tiled floor. Silent soft bouncing. They shake the air. Crinkle your vision. There’s a lot of energy under these tables. 0
The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 9
Well, my head is spinning. I woke up this morning 100 pages shy of the target. That’s no good. And I can’t say I caught all the way up either. But here we are, 11:30 PST, and I’m on page…
Legends from My Childhood, #4
“They used to call me ‘Gentile Joe’” he said. ‘Cuz my name is ‘Joe Gentle.’ I loved the Jews. Oh sure. I loved the Jews and the Jews loved me.” Pulling out tinted photos of foxy showgirls from the ’30s.…
The Wilmot’s Mic-Less Open Mic III Huzzzah
Thanks to everyone who came out — we had a great crowd, with 50+ folks packing the house and 21 readers. Great words. Great food. Great Blacksmith Cellars grape. And swell hosting by Tim and Mary from Wilmot’s Books. Thanks…
Wilmot’s Open Mic, tomorrow at 7
Hi all, Just a quick reminder for Bay Area folks that tomorrow night is the big open mic, aka Wilmot’s Mic-less Open Mic III, featuring original work by local writers. Fabulous wine provided by our excellent and award-winning friends over…
Espresso Poems
I write espresso poems now the way I used to write about cigarettes. My old fumbled word love to white ash the hard-dented tan filter. The clouds! Oh those sainted particles! The courage of my glass ashtray! All swapped for…
Styrofoam
It’s been about three months since I posted a new song to the ole Virtual LP — the last number being Welcome to Your (Doom of Clowns). Happily, I found a little time this past weekend to record a tune…
The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 8
Almost 2 months in (!) and on the one hand, bodies are droppin’. On the other hand, we have something like 17 or 18 folks still with us, which is certainly a record for this deep into the journey. I…