I delivered this brief talk at the “Congress of Curious Peoples,” at the Coney Island Museum, May 1, 2014.  It concerned the attempts by fans of the pulp writer Richard Shaver to build the machines he described in his stories.  Here’s the first page…

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This is the first page of four.  It doesn’t end happily for the woodcutter.

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A curious alchemical portal in Rome.

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“The Peculiar Bookshelf” was a segment that I performed on “No Shame,” a weekly variety show at Manhattan’s Public Theater in the early ’90s.  Having long been an avid accumulator of unusual books, I simply read a few selections from my shelves: visionaries, contactees, theorists, cryptographers, paranoiacs, and other worthy souls.  Occasionally I invited another […]

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Here, for your entertainment, is a one-page novel.

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As the chorus explains, “People don’t like people like you, people like people like me.”

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Some sketches from a trip to Prague in 2003…

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Robin Hoffman attends many performances at Brooklyn’s Jalopy Theater, and sketches what she sees.  She’s posted a picture of me with the tuba player Ralph Hamperian, over here.

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“Prof. Williams’ New System” was the first piece I toured with the Oberlin Dance Collective, back in 1974.  I was 19.  I don’t remember much about the piece, but did keep a rough score/script.  The title was taken from a 19th century manual on the care of horses and cattle, and the text came from […]

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An asemic sound poem, from around 1977.

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