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  • x-post: And the Vortex and the poetry and the east coast of it all

    Another week, another episode of Monkey Vortex Radio Theater. This week: an all-new spoken word spectacular from east coast letter-chef (that’s right — “letter chef!”) Lee Kaye, featuring beats by west coast stick-sensation (!) Shoeless Adams plus guest voicework from the stars of UPN’s “Anarchists for Hire!”: Eileen Dahl and Shonny Vortex! (All sewn together by yers truly.)
    Well don’t just sit there reading these very words that you are reading right now at this very particular moment in time that is currently happening! Click on over and hear it for yourself!

  • In my blue house

    …by guest poet Shonny Vortex.
    In my blue house
    Everyone is I, I
    Talking about themselves
    In my blue house
    Hearts bang on your head
    With drum sticks
    And stars twinkle
    In the daytime
    And fish swim into your mouth
    So you can eat them
    And flowers grow out
    Of your head
    And people have square heads
    And people love squares
    And a blue moon
    Floats at nighttime
    and a yellow moon
    Floats at daytime
    With the stars
    A purple oval-shaped moon
    Flies at daytime and nighttime.
    And there’s a butterfly-shaped moon too.
    May 18, 2003

  • Serenity. Now.

    Serenity Now
    Something a bit more upbeat to end the day — a moment: Heading home with two good pals after a weekend spent canvassing in Oregon.

  • A world of tears

    a moment to mourn.
    that’s all.

  • x-post: and the vortex and the John. And the Paul, George, Ringo of it all.

    Welcome to another Monkey Vortex Monday. Congratulations on getting here. And most especially, on evading the many traps I set before you these past seven days. Particularly the thing with the stick. And the one with the swinging gate. And the bottle of rum, half-reflected in a shallow pool of just-fallen rain water. Did you stoop to quench your thirst, old friend? Of course you did.
    Now, to your reward: the answer to a pair of age-old questions. Questions about John Kerry. About George W. Bush. About the remaining Beatles. And about the thin line what separates the two. The four, I mean. The two pairs of two, I guess. Is what I mean. Anyways, it’s all based on a wee radioplay penned by yours truly, with voices by me also, plus Benson Hurst, John Kerry, and the aforementioned GWB. And you can play it for yourself right here.

  • x-post: Victory is nigh, baby

    The Angry Liberal reminds us how the polls looked in late October, 2000. Read all about it in all-new Edgewise post.

  • x-post: hereafter today, gone tomorrow

    A thought or three about one of the many subtexts of Tuesday’s vote, now up on Edgewise.

  • Stacks of digital photography books

    And a long line of
    enthusiastic
    neatly dressed
    retirees.
    They're pressing toward the front.
    And now they're strip-mining the table
    saying:
       tell me
    sell me
             how to stop time.
  • x-post: and the monkey, and the POTA, and the pathos of it all

    It’s another Monkey Vortex Monday. Now playing: two minutes and twenty seconds inside the mind of the most powerful human being on the face of the earth. It’s a Bill Cassel / Christian Crumlish script, starring the aforementioned Christian Crumlish, plus Eileen Dahl and the infamous M. Smith. And it all adds up to an all-free, all-mp3 experience the kids call: Sympathy for the W.

  • Zach Braff vs. Yu-Gi-Oh!

    OK, OK. So I haven’t written a feature-length movie about returning to New Jersey. But I ask you this: has Hollywood bigshot Zach Braff ever written a song about Yu-Gi-Oh!? And more to the point, has he ever written one in both the faux-classical and faux punk-folk traditions?
    No? I didn’t think so.
    Now me, on the other hand….
    Lyrics:
    Everybody’s playing Yu-Gi-Oh!
    Yu-Gi-Oh! is what folks like to play
    and when the cards are —
    — the cards are flying
    folks are playing
    Yu-Gi-Oh!
    Yu-Gi-Oh!
    Yu-Gi-Oooooh….oh!
    Faux-classical and faux punk-folk recordings…coming soon.
    ed note: turns out, not everyone is Yu-Gi-Oh! savvy. So in case yer excessively puzzled by this here entry: Yu-Gi-Oh! is a card game, much like Pokemon. Or pinochle. But more like Pokemon. Now Zach Braff, Zach Braff I explain to no one. He can go to hell.