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Deathmarch 4: Cervantes Strikes Back!

July 21, 2025March 9, 2006 by Cecil Vortex

Hi all,
As previously intimated, the Don Quixote Deathmarch does in fact loometh. In fact, it so loometh that we even have a start date: Wednesday, March 22 (meaning we aim to open the cover that day).
Looks like … Read on Macduff...

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Pacing

July 21, 2025February 6, 2006 by Cecil Vortex

Jake has lived with these dogs for four years now. They pace around his cage on dry paws. He rotates as they pace, tracking their progress but never catching their eyes.
He learned this truth in the first few weeks: … Read on Macduff...

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Don Quixote Deathmarch Looms….

July 21, 2025January 25, 2006 by Cecil Vortex

Just a quick heads-up for them what follow such things, that the Don Quixote Deathmarch is now officially looming on the horizon. The exact start date hasn’t been selected yet, but it’ll most likely be right around the beginning of … Read on Macduff...

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Poetry Reading…

July 21, 2025June 30, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

…2 Night

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I Love Lucy

July 21, 2025June 20, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

Here’s another track on the Virtual LP. If you’ve played a few of these before, you might recall that I have a bit of a thing for piano/vocal standards like (to name two…) The Best Things in Life Are … Read on Macduff...

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The Pale Fire Deathmarch, Week 3

July 21, 2025June 14, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

Pale Fire Peoples!
Welcome to Week 3. It’s very special week for me, because this is the first week when I’m officially a little bit behind, which means we’re really rollin’ now. I’ve been savouring it a bit too much … Read on Macduff...

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The Palefire Deathmarch, Week 2

July 21, 2025June 7, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

Pale Fire Peoples!
Looks like we’re off to an excellent start. Lotsa folks on the march, with fully 20 posts so far on last week’s thread, including an excellent bit o’ background on the Zemlya of it all, filed just … Read on Macduff...

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“The Pale Fire Deathmarch” Exhortation!

July 21, 2025May 17, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

A few weeks back, we wrapped “The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch,” in which some 13 or 14 of us went screaming across Pynchon’s notoriously challenging uber-book.
Mark yer calendars. Two weeks from today — on May 31st — tanned, rested, and … Read on Macduff...

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Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Cauliflower Jam

July 21, 2025May 2, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

Just when you thought all the Cauliflower had been eaten, The Challenge returns! From the mysterious guitar-plucking fingers of a man called “xourmas” comes today’s shimmering turn of the Melon wheel. It takes Jake’s sax piece which took eb’s vocal … Read on Macduff...

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Blog’versary

July 21, 2025April 27, 2005 by Cecil Vortex

A tad over twelve months ago, I blogged my first post. It’s been a fun year, writing these poems, reading that book, collaborating on that cauliflower, making that monkey noise, and whatnot. Thanks to … Read on Macduff...

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