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Dance party tonight

January 5, 2007 by Cecil Vortex

Would you like to dance?
A gazillion years later
would you still like to dance?
Put on high boots and a dangerous skirt?
Are you addicted to garbage
this weekend? Age inappropriate?
Will you shake that thing?
And are you … Read on Macduff...

Categories Book o' Verse 5 Comments

The Scooby-Doo Conundrum

January 4, 2007 by Cecil Vortex

I just told my kids that Scooby-Doo has a speech defect. But now I’m not sure.
Even though the dog speaks and functions in a very human way, is he not still essentially a dog? And given that, should we … Read on Macduff...

Categories This; And also that 7 Comments

x-post: Future fantasy headline happiness

January 3, 2007 by Cecil Vortex

MSBC.com and I are feeling bullish about the start of the new congress — read all about it over on edgewise.

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The deer liked to race

January 2, 2007 by Cecil Vortex

The deer liked to race around this particular meadow. Maybe it was the grass. Or the smell of the grass. Or the smell of last year’s deer. Whatever the pull, the meadow was packed with deer, and they were running.… Read on Macduff...

Categories This; And also that 2 Comments

Karen Dalton and the beauty

December 31, 2006 by Cecil Vortex

My better half gifted me with a lovely re-release of a lost gem — In My Own Time by Karen Dalton. Billie Holiday-influenced folk blues complete with three fingers of whiskey in the vocals. All covers — just more … Read on Macduff...

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Welcome to Your (Doom of Clowns)

July 21, 2025December 28, 2006 by Cecil Vortex

Earlier in the month I promised to deliver this here clown song, based on a line gifted to me by my son. “Welcome to your doom of clowns,” he said. Really.
Until a few days ago I thought this … Read on Macduff...

Categories Virtual LP, xx-temp-files 3 Comments

My One-Word Review of the Beatles New CD “Love”

December 26, 2006 by Cecil Vortex

Effortless.

(as in: far as I can tell, no actual effort went into the making of this thing.)

Categories One-Word Reviews 6 Comments

just fyi

December 22, 2006 by Cecil Vortex

I am the just fy
the optional information
the only information
you do not need
to act on me.
Have no fear old friend.
No change no motion
no response
required.
Remain as you were
more or less
absorb me … Read on Macduff...

Categories This; And also that 3 Comments

Things I fear my six-year-old secretly likes to do

December 20, 2006 by Cecil Vortex

and really might well do if I left him alone in the house for twenty minutes, a partial list:

  • turn on the burner, light things on fire.
  • shave off all his hair, put it in the sink to clog it
… Read on Macduff...
Categories This; And also that 9 Comments

Great-grandpa’s advice

December 14, 2006 by Cecil Vortex

Steer clear of the drunk barber. His
blade sways. He shaves shapes
in the air.

Categories This; And also that 6 Comments
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