I am forty-five years old today. I don’t really have any feelings about that, one way or another. E’s staying home so we can go to a movie and dinner this afternoon, other than that, I don’t really do a lot for my birthday or expect big gifts or anything. (We had [...]
So…I love the Oblique Strategies. I’ve been using Brian Eno’s personal set of block-busting brain teasers to help with creative crises since the mid-eighties, when another music geek who drew or wrote or something, she gave me them. A list of them, photocopied, nth generation, which I copied onto index cards one [...]
Just because the Joshua Bell-playing-violin story seems to puzzle many people, and I get really tired of seeing it float by endlessly, and would rather not be seeing it for the next twenty years of my life:
The primary problem is this staged event predilects based on widely spread shame-based notions of [...]
So “The Live Lady of Down Town” is out being looked at for publication, and I’ve told a few people about this, but…I have two other sort of linked stories coming. The links being:
They’re all about music geekery They’re each set in a different alternate history 1960s The Beatles feature in all of them [...]
I’m kind of wondering, watching the trailer for and reading about Bobcat Goldthwait’s new movie, God Bless America, if he’s ever read Jack Ritchie’s short story “For All the Rude People.” It’s entirely possible – I first read it in one of the old Hitchcock anthos, and looking the title up, there are
When I was a kid, I loved Emily Cheney Neville’s Newberry winning It’s Like This, Cat. It’s about a kid in sixties NYC who gets adopted by a tabby tom cat who just walks into his life. Named Cat.
I read that thing a dozen times, [...]
I remember when this was going on, and heard over the years later about the most answer songs ever generated and etc. But I had no idea of the extent of the carnage. Blowfly did a song, even?
“In 1984, the hip-hop trio U.T.F.O., produced by the R&B group Full [...]
