"…something like the supervisor of an entire team of political agents…"
Cecil Vortex Tune-making and MVRT have both been considerably waylaid of late by hard disk problems and assorted other distractions. But last night I got Pro Tools working (yay!) and recorded this wee, chordy piano piece. And with this piece comes the following open invitation to a collaborative fun-time challenge project: if you like to screw around … Read more
Twee birds, rumbling boat horns, rough timber movement rolled up for the night into a living room carpet spiral with socks and cat toys, spoons, string, lost chopsticks. Leaned sideways through the timeline, bending toward a corner wall. And then shook out at new light. Dropping like 6 am jacks onto the hardwood floor.
10 weeks — 10! And now we’re roughly two-thirds of the way through. What’s left? Just a pamphlet really. A hop, a skip, and an analepsis. Last week was challenging for different folks in different ways. Some of us battled with the lengthy Pokler section, which I loved, perhaps because I read most of it … Read more
Jane won’t eat pears. No matter the context. Stranded on Pear Planet. Attacked by toothy pears. Armed with only a pear fork. Peckish. Oh, she’ll kill ’em. Oh sure. She can be savage. But she won’t eat the flesh or drink the juice. And she doesn’t want to talk about it.
Week 9 and and we’re hard-charging through the Zone… Despite the relative quiet on the blog this last week, I count around 14-15 people out on the trail. Not bad at all…. Speaking of quiet, we’re suddenly down to only around five or six folks qualified for Grand Poobah mug status. And here I am, … Read more
Hey all, Well congrats! This week we hit the halfway mark! All that, and we still have something like 13-15 people on the march, on and off the blog, which is pretty impressive. Like a 40% survival rate to-date. And I’d have to guess that most of the folks who made it this far will … Read more
After a longish, hard-drive induced hiatus, Monkey Vortex Radio Theater is back with our first new piece in about a month. This week: it’s a Koeneke/Soha transcontinental guitar/poem spectacular. I love it. My four-year-old loves it. And if you’re still the way I remember you being, and I’m pretty sure you are, you’ll love it … Read more
I met a traveler from an antique land who said: “A Gravity’s Rainbow Chat Thread stands in the desert.”
Well alright now, week 7 and as we near the halfway mark, there are still some 15 or so people with us, both on and off the blog. Not bad. If you’re hanging out around page 100-150 and wondering whether to push on or toss the book aside, I’d say (big surprise here) push on! … Read more
This couple had a fight at the bar tonight about 10 feet from my knees. At the beginning, he was saying he really didn’t do “Graphic User Interface design” any more — he was doing “Information Architecture.” And then they said a lot of things I didn’t hear and suddenly, it seemed, she was crying … Read more