His eyes stopped on her
like a butterfly
landing on your arm.
Do me a favor
Go out into the world today.
Go out and find the knowledge.
Bring it home.
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 12
It’s Week 12 and I can literally feel the back of the book in my hands when I’m reading. That’s how close to the end we are. By my admittedly rough and unreliable calculations, just 4 weeks remain. Der Jinkeys!… Read on Macduff...
Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Straight Up: Cauliflower
About a week and a half ago I posted a short piano number and asked folks to mess around with it. Here’s a brief recap of the excellent and harmonically vivid versions we’ve gotten back so far:
- Cauliflower Melon (the
Sleeping in
Lying in bed
scooping a little more sleep
into my bowl, like soup
until the soup goes cold
and starts to overflow
onto the table.
There’s the metal
of the ladel and it clinks
as a thin carrot wedge
rotates … Read on Macduff...
Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Tower of Cauliflower
To briefly recap, a week ago I posted a short piano piece and asked folks to mess around with it. Bob and eb tossed down swank slide and vocal interps respectively. Now the Dread Pirate Yaniv Soha joins the fray.… Read on Macduff...
Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Melancholy Flower
Last week I posted a wee chordy piano piece and asked folks to mess around with it and send me the results. First in was a sweet slice o’ slide from Bob Myren. If yer just joining the fun, here’s … Read on Macduff...
What is wrong with me?
That place in my heart
where I should want a tattoo —
that place where my tattoo desire
is supposed to brood —
it’s a dead place.
No. Worse.
I don’t even have that place.
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 11
Week 11. I mean, are you kidding me? Seriously. 11? This is ridiculous!
I my own self have fallen back behind. Caught a wee spot of the old TB this last week. But I’m bouncin’ back (coughhack!) bouncin’ back I … Read on Macduff...
Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Cauliflowermelonslide
Yesterday I exhorted folks to take this wee chordy piano piece I’d recorded (aka Cauliflower Melon) and mess around with it — add guitar, verb, drums, guitar, slice it up, and what have you.
Lo and behold, this morning … Read on Macduff...