"…something like the supervisor of an entire team of political agents…"
Cecil Vortex Another week, another episode of Monkey Vortex Radio Theater. This week: an all-new spoken word spectacular from east coast letter-chef (that’s right — “letter chef!”) Lee Kaye, featuring beats by west coast stick-sensation (!) Shoeless Adams plus guest voicework from the stars of UPN’s “Anarchists for Hire!”: Eileen Dahl and Shonny Vortex! (All sewn together … Read more
…by guest poet Shonny Vortex. In my blue house Everyone is I, I Talking about themselves In my blue house Hearts bang on your head With drum sticks And stars twinkle In the daytime And fish swim into your mouth So you can eat them And flowers grow out Of your head And people have … Read more
Something a bit more upbeat to end the day — a moment: Heading home with two good pals after a weekend spent canvassing in Oregon.
a moment to mourn. that’s all.
Welcome to another Monkey Vortex Monday. Congratulations on getting here. And most especially, on evading the many traps I set before you these past seven days. Particularly the thing with the stick. And the one with the swinging gate. And the bottle of rum, half-reflected in a shallow pool of just-fallen rain water. Did you … Read more
The Angry Liberal reminds us how the polls looked in late October, 2000. Read all about it in all-new Edgewise post.
A thought or three about one of the many subtexts of Tuesday’s vote, now up on Edgewise.
And a long line of enthusiastic neatly dressed retirees. They’re pressing toward the front. And now they’re strip-mining the table saying: tell me sell me how to stop time.
It’s another Monkey Vortex Monday. Now playing: two minutes and twenty seconds inside the mind of the most powerful human being on the face of the earth. It’s a Bill Cassel / Christian Crumlish script, starring the aforementioned Christian Crumlish, plus Eileen Dahl and the infamous M. Smith. And it all adds up to an … Read more
OK, OK. So I haven’t written a feature-length movie about returning to New Jersey. But I ask you this: has Hollywood bigshot Zach Braff ever written a song about Yu-Gi-Oh!? And more to the point, has he ever written one in both the faux-classical and faux punk-folk traditions? No? I didn’t think so. Now me, … Read more