Do me a favor
Go out into the world today. Go out and find the knowledge. Bring it home.
Cecil Vortex
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 12
It’s Week 12 and I can literally feel the back of the book in my hands when I’m reading. That’s how close to the end we are. By my admittedly rough and unreliable calculations, just 4 weeks remain. Der Jinkeys! Enough of us marchers have fallen a little bit behind that I think this would … Read more
Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Straight Up: Cauliflower
About a week and a half ago I posted a short piano number and asked folks to mess around with it. Here’s a brief recap of the excellent and harmonically vivid versions we’ve gotten back so far: Cauliflower Melon (the original piano piece) Cauliflowermelonslide (Bob Myren’s remix with slide guitar) Melancholy Flower (eb’s version with … Read more
Sleeping in
Lying in bed scooping a little more sleep into my bowl, like soup until the soup goes cold and starts to overflow onto the table. There’s the metal of the ladel and it clinks as a thin carrot wedge rotates past following the current toward the table edge.
Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Tower of Cauliflower
To briefly recap, a week ago I posted a short piano piece and asked folks to mess around with it. Bob and eb tossed down swank slide and vocal interps respectively. Now the Dread Pirate Yaniv Soha joins the fray. For handy compare and contrast, here’s the original piano piece, Bob’s slide, and eb’s piano/vocal … Read more
Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Melancholy Flower
Last week I posted a wee chordy piano piece and asked folks to mess around with it and send me the results. First in was a sweet slice o’ slide from Bob Myren. If yer just joining the fun, here’s the original piano piece — Cauliflower Melon — and here’s Bob’s remix — Cauliflowermelonslide. Today … Read more
What is wrong with me?
That place in my heart where I should want a tattoo — that place where my tattoo desire is supposed to brood — it’s a dead place. No. Worse. I don’t even have that place.
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 11
Week 11. I mean, are you kidding me? Seriously. 11? This is ridiculous! I my own self have fallen back behind. Caught a wee spot of the old TB this last week. But I’m bouncin’ back (coughhack!) bouncin’ back I tell ya! On to next week: Let’s make camp at page 580 (p/v) where “Jamf … Read more
Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Cauliflowermelonslide
Yesterday I exhorted folks to take this wee chordy piano piece I’d recorded (aka Cauliflower Melon) and mess around with it — add guitar, verb, drums, guitar, slice it up, and what have you. Lo and behold, this morning — the very next damn day! — my old and excellent pal Bob Myren came through … Read more
x-post: Reactionary Dander
All this prurient Pynchon appears to have nudged me into a reactionary dander. Read the results (“The Mainstreaming of Vice“) over on the mighty, the mighty, the mighty Edgewise. Unless you’re intimidated by my clear-thinking, straight-shooting, uninhibited sense of moral superiority. In which case, you know. It’s cool.