That gentleman of the pen, Danny Hellman, published this comic strip in his anthology Typhon, in 2008. I originally drew it for performance, which is why the dialogue is not contained within the balloons. Here’s how it begins.

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How did I ever end up in a movie? I don’t even watch movies. However — I was appearing, yet again, in Bill Irwin’s show The Regard of Flight, and casting agents noticed me. I auditioned for a movie called Three Men and a Baby (as one of the three men, not as the baby). […]

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A round on a trenchant scrap of Yeats. Hear, hear!  

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A funereal snippet, to illustrate a point of physical comedy in a performance with Bill Irwin, at the Walter Reade Theater (NYC) in 1999.

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Having long been a fan of both Richard Shaver and Fate magazine, I was happy to play a part in putting him on the cover. My article for this issue, “What’s This?  A Shaver Revival?” can be found here. Or, to be more precise, the beginning of the article: you have to buy the issue […]

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In 1977 and 1978, I drew a comic strip for a paper in Oakland, CA, The East Bay Review. It was called “Art For Art’s Sake,” and took a cast of anthropomorphic creatures through the Bay Area arts scene. It seems pretty jejune to me now, in my dotage, but the discipline of meeting deadlines […]

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Back in 1981, while touring in Florence, I picked up a facsimile copy of this peculiar alchemical work. I was fascinated, and started a translation. Then, many years and moves later, I found my notes, and realized that I should either discard it or finish it. So, I Googled Nazari; and found that the book […]

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I’ve often performed this song on the ukulele. I recorded it with an obbligato for baritone uke; in performance, David Gold has joined me on viola. Here’s how it begins:

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A brief crab canon. I notated it in the style of a baroque puzzle canon; that saves ink.

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