All this prurient Pynchon appears to have nudged me into a reactionary dander. Read the results (“The Mainstreaming of Vice“) over on the mighty, the mighty, the mighty Edgewise. Unless you’re intimidated by my clear-thinking, straight-shooting, uninhibited … Read on Macduff...
Cauliflower Melon: A Collaborative Fun-Time Challenge Project!
Tune-making and MVRT have both been considerably waylaid of late by hard disk problems and assorted other distractions. But last night I got Pro Tools working (yay!) and recorded this wee, chordy piano piece.
And with this piece comes … Read on Macduff...
Morning Sounds
Twee birds, rumbling boat horns,
rough timber movement
rolled up for the night
into a living room carpet spiral
with socks and cat toys,
spoons, string, lost chopsticks.
Leaned sideways through the timeline,
bending toward a corner wall.
And then … Read on Macduff...
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 10
10 weeks — 10! And now we’re roughly two-thirds of the way through. What’s left? Just a pamphlet really. A hop, a skip, and an analepsis.
Last week was challenging for different folks in different ways. Some of us battled … Read on Macduff...
Pears
Jane won’t eat pears. No matter the context.
Stranded on Pear Planet.
Attacked by toothy pears.
Armed with only a pear fork.
Peckish.
Oh, she’ll kill ’em. Oh sure.
She can be savage.
But she won’t eat the flesh or … Read on Macduff...
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 9
Week 9 and and we’re hard-charging through the Zone… Despite the relative quiet on the blog this last week, I count around 14-15 people out on the trail. Not bad at all….
Speaking of quiet, we’re suddenly down to only … Read on Macduff...
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 8
Hey all,
Well congrats! This week we hit the halfway mark! All that, and we still have something like 13-15 people on the march, on and off the blog, which is pretty impressive. Like a 40% survival rate to-date. And … Read on Macduff...
x-post: and the poem and the second line and the Nada Gordon of it all
After a longish, hard-drive induced hiatus, Monkey Vortex Radio Theater is back with our first new piece in about a month. This week: it’s a Koeneke/Soha transcontinental guitar/poem spectacular. I love it. My four-year-old loves it. And if you’re still … Read on Macduff...
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 7, Chat thread
I met a traveler from an antique land who said: “A Gravity’s Rainbow Chat Thread stands in the desert.”
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 7, Book thread
Well alright now, week 7 and as we near the halfway mark, there are still some 15 or so people with us, both on and off the blog. Not bad. If you’re hanging out around page 100-150 and wondering whether … Read on Macduff...