Here, if anyone’s interested, is an alphabetical list of the rounds I’ve written.

The Animals
The Bigot
Blackwell’s Isle
Captain Manning’s Catch
A Christmas Song
Common Sense
Ding Dong Bell (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Dr. Quack (verses from a card game)
Election Day (William Butler Yeats)
Fundamentalists
Give Me Clouds! (Remy de Gourmont)
Government Without Religion
Gravity
Here’s to the Longest Night
Hero, Sword, and Fame (Ambrose Bierce)
Herrick 1-4 (Robert Herrick)
Homo Sapiens
If You Base Your Life on Money
The Imponderable Pillar of Worlds (Benjamin DeCasseres)
Janus
Laughter
A Leaf (Remy de Gourmont)
The Little Lamb
A Martyr
Merdrigal (Léon-Paul Fargue, my translation)
The Moron (traditional)
Nature’s Way
No Noel
People Like to Lie
Philosophy: The Last Phase (Benjamin DeCasseres)
The Pigeon
Proverbs 1-7 (traditional)
Remember Me
Time
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing (William Butler Yeats)
To the Lions With Them! (Aleister Crowley)
Twelve

Christmas is over, but the holidays are still with us. Be careful.

Buttons showing John Dee’s Hieroglyphic Monad, to hand out at my recent talk about Dee.

John Dee, Part I: John Dee Through His Dreams

An Illustrated Lecture with Doug Skinner

Date: Tuesday, November 18
Time: 8pm
Admission: $12
Place: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, Brooklyn.
This lecture is presented by Shannon Taggart, Programmer in Residence of the Morbid Anatomy Museum.

In the first of this two evening series, Doug Skinner discusses the life and work of the extraordinary Elizabethan polymath John Dee: sorcerer, astronomer, astrologer, alchemist, mathematician, antiquarian, imperial apologist, bibliophile, historian, and adviser to the queen. Such a life defies chronology, so his many interconnected activities are approached through the dreams that he noted in his household diary. Each glimpse into Dee’s psyche reveals another facet of his unique career.

Part 2: Thursday, November 20: Sex and Spirits: The Dee / Kelley Plural Marriage – An Illustrated Presentation with Don Jolly.

More info at Morbid Anatomy.

Horoscrapes is now available!  Here is the publisher’s blurb:

Part Oulipian exercise, these meticulous scrapings reveal the future in all its sublime absurdity. The author approached the horoscope in his morning newspaper as if it were a puzzle, like the crossword or sudoku. By scraping out the middle part, and joining the beginning and end, he received a hidden message.

Reading outside the lines here one discovers an alternative fate more interesting than the fluff dispensed by run-of-the-mill soothsayers. Indeed, these predictions are pithy, profound, and astonishingly accurate.

In HOROSCRAPES, Doug Skinner offers up 366 clever twists of fate—something for every sign—guaranteed to alter forever how we view the universe.

Who knows what the future holds?

Doug Skinner knows.

Available from Black Scat Books.