Cecil Vortex

Second Hand Rose

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As a follow up to our smash hit “Bye Bye, Blackbird, here’s the second in a continuing series of occasional piano/vocal jazz standards plucked from bygone days. This time, we’re headed all the way back to 1921 for “Second Hand Rose,” written by Grant Clarke and James F. “the F stands for foot pedal, sonny, and don’t you forget it” Hanley.
This track features lead vocals by eb (of “Clowney“ fame) and and lead German-style vocals by Eileen Dahl (of “Love“ fame).
playtime:1:07
file specs: roughly 1MB mp3
Thanks for listening…

Bedtime

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She slept in the bed
while he slept on the couch
so he could hear their sick daughter
and her three-day-old cough.
And in the morning
while she moved around the kitchen
and the kids watched too-loud TV
and coughed a little more,
he crept back into the bed,
curled up in the body warmth
she’d left behind
and they slept together
separated
only by time.

x-post: and the bar and the clowney of it all

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A new episode is now available for easy-downloading good times, over at MVRT. Clowney marks a bit of a milestone in two ways:
It’s our 10th segment, so to all those doubters who said “they’ll never have 10 segments,” I say: hah! look! 10 segments!
It’s also our shortest piece yet, clocking in at just around one minute/one meg, offering bite-sized audio entertainment, just right for today’s on-the-go monkey. This one’s written by someone claiming to be named “Cecil Vortex” and it stars the redoubtable EB. Belly up to the bar, here.

The Web’s Leading Authority on “Exotic Bird Parks” in “Utah”

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Scanning the site’s traffic log tonight I learned two incredible facts:
(1) Because of a pair of lines in a pair of poems… if you search “exotic bird parks” and “Utah” in Google, not only is cecilvortex.com the first choice you get, cecilvortex.com is the only choice you get.
Amazing!
(2) Somebody — some actual human being — appears to have actually searched for “exotic bird parks” and “Utah” on Google and then clicked through to this site.
And!: Not only is all this true, but it’s a genuine double-true fact that my writing about this whole thing — right now! will only reinforce cecilvortex.com’s dominant position in this space.
Now I have to say, it’s not like this is anything I ever really aspired to. I mean, it wasn’t part of my master plan when cecilvortex.com started up or anything. But of course, now that I’m here, now that I’ve arrived, I plan to hold on like grim death.
So for this magical moment and for the foreseeable future, also magical, if you’ve come here in search of information regarding exotic bird parks in Utah, let me just say:
Welcome home.
In somewhat related news, and I know pretty soon it’s gonna start to sound like I’m bragging but… it appears that cecilvortex.com is also the number two (and perhaps soon, number one…?) Google result for “he peed in me.” Triple-true that. Check for yourself, if you dare.
All in all, I feel like I finally have a small feel for what it must be like to be Spider Man. The challenge now, if I can loosely paraphrase Ben Parker, is to find a way to use this awesome power for good.

x-post: MVRT – the money, and the love, and the everybody

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A brand-new episode is now up on ye olde Monkey Vortex Radio Theater: Everybody Loves Money. This four-minute phantastical was first written in Ubby-Dubby and then meticulously translated over to English by Bill “Mr.” Cassel. It features the voice talents of Christian “Mr.” Crumlish, Jeff “Mr.” Green, Bee “Ms.” Nisbet, Jolene “Mr.” Phelps, and Eric “eeeeee-rock!” Stone. But don’t take my word for it — hear for yourself at MVRT.