North Beach, San Francisco
summer midnight in the city and the bridesmaid just walked past without her shoes on.
Cecil Vortex
x-post: all swift boat vets, all the time
Been yearning for a rant about how much air time those darn Swift Boat Vets for Truth have been getting? Well yearn no more. You’ll find one: here.
Brown hair
It’s a young man’s game.
A thin slice of terror
Here’s a wee thing (voice talents: eb and xian) — 26 seconds of sound, a 415K mp3. It’s a scrap. A found object. A thin slice of terror. And, as an added bonus, it’s also an almost entirely misleading trailer for an upcoming Monkey Vortex Radio Theater feature entitled: “I, Baby Robot.” Enjoy. And watch … Read more
Open thread — a call for your submissions
I’ll be gone for a couple of days, so I thought we’d try something a little differemt this morning — an open thread. The idear is that you folks keep the site crackling in my absence — overflowing with woosh! — by adding your own snippets of dialog, slices of lyric, poems, demi-poems, stories, or … Read more
August, 2004: note to self
Waiting around for election day doesn’t count as an activity.
Poison
She has a hard, twisted smile like she’s just taken poison and if you say one more word well, she’ll let some of it leak. Her jaw, it will slack and the venom will bubble oh there’ll be lots of trouble when she opens up that beak.
Advice for Travellers
Never chew gum in an airplane bathroom. Because if you do your gum will taste like an airplane bathroom.
x-post: And the lotus eaters, and the poetry, and the monkey of it all
Are you like me? Love spoken word poetry? But maybe not so crazy about hanging out with, you know, poets? Well fear not — help is on the way! Monkey Vortex Radio Theater had folks just like you and me in mind when they created Poet Makes a House Call — in which real live … Read more
Till It’s Light
As we ramp up production here at the house of Vortex, I’ll be aiming to post a tune every week or two. Today’s is a collaborative effort recorded a few months back and written in the key of Leon Russell. As ever, it’s on the fairly small side (1.3 mb), download-wise. TV’s Yaniv Soha contributes … Read more