My translation of Isidore Isou’s “Considerations on the Death and Burial of Tristan Tzara” is published by Black Scat Books, as the eighth in their elegant chapbook series, “Absurdist Texts and Documents.”  Isou, founder of that unusual literary movement, Letterism, describes his hilarious, often embarrassing, behavior at Tristan Tzara’s funeral.  It’s published in a limited […]

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Jim Moore created the character of Baron Otto von Tu, an aristocratic hermit.  The Baron, in turn, founded Club Recluse, a society for the anti-social.  I wrote the handbook, which included information about the society, tributes to great recluses, and tips for solitary living.  Jim tried to sell membership kits, containing this manual, a certificate, […]

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An asemic sound poem, from around 1977.

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I sometimes read this asemic list poem out in San Francisco, back in the ’70s.      

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I delivered something like the following at an event called “Bigfoot Night,” curated by Kevin Maher and Meg Sweeney Lawless, at the Sci Fi Screening Room in NYC, November 17, 2008.

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I wrote and performed “A Campaign Speech” for “The General Election Rally Vote Ballot,” an event curated by Mel Brimfield for the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2007.  I appeared via DVD, videoed by Anthony Matt.

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Mark Maynard thought this up for his zine Crimewave USA.  I bear Marilyn Vos Savant no ill will; I hope she learned something.  I also did this on stage once, with Michael O’Connor reading the questions, at the late lamented Surf Reality in NYC.  

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For my last FortFest appearance, I gave a talk on some drawings by contactees that John Keel collected and circulated in the ’60s.  I posted most of it over on the Keel site.

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The Ullage Group deserves a mention on this site. Anthony Matt and I had contemplated forming a Fortean Society, along the lines of John Keel’s old group, and like those currently meeting in pubs in Dublin and Edinburgh. We finally opted for a semi-fortean group, and chose as our emblem “ullage,” a fine old word […]

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