The Snowman Three Doors Down is now available from Black Scat Books! It has 24 stories! It’s 246 pages! Hapless characters slog through tangled plots and formal constraints in this bracing collection. Will the Chromatologist find the shade of green that identifies the adulterous cosplayer? Will a group of tipsy scholars discover the secret to […]
Entries from March 2018
The Snowman Three Doors Down
March 21st, 2018 · 2 Comments
The Music of the Spheres
March 11th, 2018 · 2 Comments
Here’s a keyboard reduction of the 8th string quartet (see last post). Oh, those spheres!
String Quartet 8: The Music of the Spheres
March 4th, 2018 · 3 Comments
Athanasius Kircher gave a brief realization of the music of the spheres in Musurgia Universalis (1650). Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars correspond to the soprano; the sun to the alto; Venus, Mercury, and the moon to the tenor; and the earth to the bass. I expanded his four measures to a hundred. He suggested that the […]
An Interview with Horace Ballantine
March 2nd, 2018 · Comments Off on An Interview with Horace Ballantine
Black Scat Books has released a free Peek-A-Book of “An Interview with Horace Ballantine,” from my upcoming collection The Snowman Three Doors Down. The veteran cartoonist has to contend with an interviewer who never heard of comic strips, and it’s not easy for either of them. You can download your PDF here.