The practical payoff of waking up could almost be reduced to:
Wake up soon enough to make less of a mess of your life. Continue reading
running a script
Am I Just Running a Script
A Practical Laboratory in Self-Awareness
Every device runs scripts.
A biological device runs habits, emotional reactions, social conditioning, memories, appetites, fears, inherited tendencies, and learned routines. Continue reading
I walk the streets
Walking the Streets of Bardotown
For some time now I’ve been wondering whether the Norton Street musical projects might be more than simply albums.
What if they were places? Continue reading
One Lifetime? Oh, Yeah??? Who Says?
One Lifetime? Or Many?
Every human being develops skills during a lifetime. A carpenter learns woodworking. A physician learns medicine. A musician masters an instrument. We generally accept that expertise grows through years of study, practice, failure, and experience.
But occasionally we encounter an individual whose range of abilities seems to ignore those normal boundaries. Continue reading
norton street by zulu village
Norton Street on Kay GOD
Zulu Village
“From somewhere between the campfire and the transmitter…” Continue reading
nightlong project
Devoted the entire evening to restoration of long-forgotten photos. I’ll show them today at our zoom meeting. Continue reading
Fantasy Writers
A common bumpersticker from the early sci-fi and fantasy cons was: “fantasy writers eat their dead”.
Thinking about that certainly brings back a smile. “Fantasy Writers Eat Their Dead” was widely recognized as an inside joke of science fiction/fantasy convention fandom, especially on bumper stickers and badges in the early 1960s through the 1980s. I don’t know the definitive origin story or a first appearance in print, but you might find it in Zap Comics. Mr. Natural may have said it first. Continue reading
victorian comic opera
Norton Street on Kay GOD
Victorian Comic Opera
“Where the impossible is performed with impeccable manners.”
There are certain evenings when one wanders into the theater expecting respectable entertainment, only to discover that reality itself has misplaced its libretto. Continue reading
Polly Barton Expanded Album Drops Today
Norton Street on Kay GOD
Polly Barton – Expanded Edition
Some journeys refuse to stay the same.
When the original Polly Barton album first arrived on the airwaves of Kay GOD, it quickly became one of our favorite musical explorations of the Norton Street universe. But as often happens in the studio, new ideas kept appearing, new performances emerged, and the story continued to unfold. Continue reading
