Le Scat Noir #215 is now available, edited by Norman Conquest, and free for all in PDF! Right here! Right now! Hop to it! You’ll find a page of my musical instrument drawings in it, as well as pieces by Conquest, Paulo Brito, Jason Rolfe, and Paul Kavanagh. And remember the Black Scat fundraiser, while […]
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Le Scat Noir 215
October 3rd, 2016 · 1 Comment
Snowman
September 11th, 2016 · 1 Comment
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Somebody Said Something Offensive
June 6th, 2016 · 2 Comments
It’s distressing when somebody says something offensive. Your face flushes; your heartbeat goes up; it’s like getting mild exercise, or drinking coffee. Here’s a song for those occasions.
Sleepytime Cemetery
April 11th, 2016 · 1 Comment
Sleepytime Cemetery is now available! In the words of Black Scat Books, “In this new collection of short stories by the author of The Doug Skinner Dossier, you’ll discover a world of ostensibly human specimens behaving in peculiar and unpredictable ways. However, they are often recognizable in a manner we dare not admit. Skinner’s dark […]
Starnose Mole Brings the Cheese Plate
November 22nd, 2015 · 3 Comments
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Stereoscope
November 2nd, 2015 · Comments Off on Stereoscope
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Songs
April 20th, 2015 · 5 Comments
Here, if anyone is interested, is an alphabetical list of my songs. It includes art songs, cabaret songs, songs from shows, choral works, and everything else. Except, of course, for all the ones I wrote and threw out. Agnosticize [TTBB] Alba (Ezra Pound) [SAT] Alphabet Amerigo and Isabella Anecdote (Jean de La Fontaine, my translation) […]
The Squadron’s Umbrella
March 4th, 2015 · 10 Comments
The Squadron’s Umbrella is now out from Black Scat Books! In the words of the publisher: Authored by Alphonse Allais Translated by Doug Skinner Alphonse Allais (1854-1905) was France’s greatest humorist. His elegance, scientific curiosity, preoccupation with language and logic, wordplay and flashes of cruelty inspired Alfred Jarry, as well as succeeding generations of Surrealists, […]
Son of a Gun
October 6th, 2014 · Comments Off on Son of a Gun
A little song about guns: in the first verse, Fred’s son shoots himself; in the second, Fred shoots his wife; and in the third, the singer suggests that Fred shoot himself, so we’ll be rid of him. The son of a bitch.
Selected Plays of Alphonse Allais
September 15th, 2014 · 5 Comments
I’ve selected, translated, and annotated a choice selection of plays by Alphonse Allais for this book. First performed in the cabarets and theaters of Paris in the rollicking 1890s, these plays include satire, absurdism, he-she sketches, a burlesque operetta, even a play for dogs. You’ll find ten monologues, three one-act plays, and twelve shorter skits […]