I don’t see the point of sitting through a movie, so I wrote a song about it. I hope I made my position clear.

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What do you give a hypnotist for his birthday? Finally, the question has been addressed in a song. And you can hear all about it on That Regrettable Weekend.

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This biological alphabet can be found in The Doug Skinner Dossier, available from Black Scat Books. HYBRIDS the alligator bones the crocodile the dog enters the fox the goat humps the ibex the jaguar knows the lynx the mongoose nails the otter the pika quickies the rabbit the starfish taps the urchin the vole works […]

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A brief essay on the nature of humor. This page will appear in The Doug Skinner Dossier, to be published next month by Black Scat Books.

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Buttons showing John Dee’s Hieroglyphic Monad, to hand out at my recent talk about Dee.

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Horoscrapes is now available!  Here is the publisher’s blurb: Part Oulipian exercise, these meticulous scrapings reveal the future in all its sublime absurdity. The author approached the horoscope in his morning newspaper as if it were a puzzle, like the crossword or sudoku. By scraping out the middle part, and joining the beginning and end, he received a hidden message. Reading outside the lines […]

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At a recent reading/slideshow of selections from The Unknown Adjective, I performed a musical version of the last page.  Ralph Hamperian played the tuba.  

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The book blog “Wuthering Expectations” has posted a nice review of the Selected Plays of Alphonse Allais.  You can read it here. The book in question is available from Amazon. Norman Conquest, of Black Scat Books, has sent these photos of happy readers:

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A round on a bit of verse by Ambrose Bierce.  

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