We have here a rousing song about humanity’s fundamental perversity. I often sang this back in the ’90s, with Carol Benner playing a vigorous obbligato on the viola.
Entries from April 2021
The Worse It Gets, the Better We Like It
April 29th, 2021 · Comments Off on The Worse It Gets, the Better We Like It
The Cinematographer and the Megachiropteran
April 20th, 2021 · Comments Off on The Cinematographer and the Megachiropteran
“The Cinematographer and the Megachiropteran” was written for Le Scat Noir 227, devoted to formal constraints. You can find it in my collection The Snowman Three Doors Down. I devised a technique similar to Raymond Roussel’s famed process, which used puns and homonyms to generate ideas. I used anagrams instead; the longest anagram pair in […]
We All Work So Hard
April 15th, 2021 · Comments Off on We All Work So Hard
“We All Work So Hard” is a song taking umbrage at the work ethic. It can be found in The Doug Skinner Songbook, so you can sing it yourself.