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Molecular Breakfast

October 25th, 2013 · 2 Comments

“Molecular Breakfast” was a 1978 collaboration with dancer and choreographer Helen Dannenberg.  Its ingredients included music, dance, pedestrian movement, sign language, speech, and found material.  Here’s the first page of our notes (including a demonstration of the difference between a Brooklyn and mid-western accent), and a review.  My, it seems long ago.

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A Martyr

July 30th, 2013 · Comments Off on A Martyr

A brief round, featuring a martyr.

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My Face Is in the Sand

July 23rd, 2013 · Comments Off on My Face Is in the Sand

If you draw a picture of yourself in the sand, it probably won’t last.

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The Mischievous Elf

June 20th, 2013 · 2 Comments

He’s very mischievous!

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Missing Persons Deck

May 2nd, 2013 · 2 Comments

In 1996, listener-sponsored radio station WFMU issued a set of playing cards as a premium for subscribers.  The theme was “Missing Persons,” and each card illustrated someone who had disappeared.  I was assigned the clubs, and drew each from the viewpoint of the person who vanished.  The ace and face cards were drawn by other […]

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Merdrigal

March 12th, 2013 · 2 Comments

A round on a quatrain by Léon-Paul Fargue, in my translation.

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The Moon Show

November 7th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Here I am performing my illustrated story, “Bimbo and Bombo,” at “The Moon Show” (Williamsburg, 11/5/12).

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Modeling for Scarlot Harlot

September 4th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Sometime in the early ’80s, sex work activist Scarlot Harlot asked me to portray a phone sex addict for a slide show she was doing. Naturally, I agreed; I had, after all, a number of prop and toy phones that I used in my shows. She used the images in this birthday card.

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Monthly Calendars

August 21st, 2012 · Comments Off on Monthly Calendars

From 1992 to 1994, I mailed out a monthly calendar to promote my performances.  I seem to have been very busy.  Here are a few of them.

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Mozart Meets Bigfoot

July 12th, 2012 · Comments Off on Mozart Meets Bigfoot

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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