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Now Streaming: Meyer / Gourlay
I’m not actively updating this little blog — but I’m still an active fella’! Meyer / Gourlay Cabaret All the latest from the Meyer / Gourlay Cabaret can be found here. Stream the latest tracks, download albums and more from our Bandcamp site. Coming 10/25: Stream us on Spotify, etc. Desire Paths Season 2 of…
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Desire Paths
This very occasional blog has moved to a very regular newsletter, Desire Paths. Just click the link and the “Subscribe.”
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Vinyl, Man
Insanity manifests culturally. In Descartes’ day, people believed they were made of glass. Those people were objectively nuts to anyone but themselves. Similarly, I really got into vinyl after I got Covid for the first time in Sept. ’24. The friendly fellow who owns the Ifinder Antique store in Mineral Point, WI had a mysterious,…
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A Spell of Remembering, Woven in Eight Leaves
Note: The essay below is reprinted from my e-book, Nowhere Slow. Though I might word it differently now, I haven’t changed it. A Spell of Remembering, Written in Eight Leaves The first leaf makes everything smooth The flower of the likehdou blends from sunset purple at the edges to a deep bruised color in…
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Japanese Influence on American Poetry: Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey (1878 – 1914) invented a form called American cinquain based on Japanese tanka. Instead of a syllabic form (5-7-5-7-7 in the tanka) the cinquain is based on stress patterns with a 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 1 stress pattern. The pattern is often iambic (two syllables, with the second syllable…
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Alone in a Pesthouse
In commemoration of my first known bout with Covid, on Sept. 14, 2024 (yes, I had quite a run!), here’s a poem I wrote pre-pandemic. It’s a historical smallpox poem based on an 1892 NY Times article about one Mr. Green. He was a prosperous fellow whose family, a wife and six children, succumbed to…
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The Human World Youssef Chahine
The loss — of land, of food, of tradition — is due to who controls modernity, not from ignorance on the part of traditional society.
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Best Old Music of 2023
Time has marched on from year-end review season. I did think, briefly, to write a top-ten post but soon realized that I no longer really know what’s new, old, re-issued, re-hashed, re-recorded. Spotify says my top two artists are Alejandro Escovedo and Jean Sibelius. Only one is alive and neither had new music in 2023.…
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St. John Lutheran Church Centennial (1967)
St. John Lutheran Church in Forest Park, IL was established in 1867 in what was then known as Harlem. In 1967 they held a Centennial service. The service was pressed into an LP. You can listen to it below (keep scrolling) and follow along in the bulletin. Here are the mp3 files of the LP.…
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But is it art?
An artificial intelligence creating authentic art in 19th Century England. Image by Dall-E on Bing. (yeah, bing, OK?)