My Podcast

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Yep, I’m going to embark upon a podcast route and, with the help of the entire tech staff here at the Home, I ought to have one of them newfangled things up and running before very long.

The idea I have in mind for my podcast is to do live readings of my books, pamphlets, lost works, that sort of thing, each episode being a complete reading of something or other, starting with something not overly ambitious, something on the order of anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes’ worth of vocals, as it were. Continue reading

In the Style of…

 

Much stuff has flowed under the thing since I heard pianists play the game of “Happy Birthday”, in which the musician tries to guess how each composer might have done it, and of course they started with Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Brahms, and such, but they often wandered into jazz and other musical artforms.

I thought I might search out some examples for you, and here they are, in order of findingness:

Wasn’t she terrific? Talent at the keyboard and composing skill go along with the game — it’s really not the same if you play a more or less rancid brand of piano, and I certainly wouldn’t elect to include it here. Continue reading

Relics & Artifacts

Yes, we’ll get to the Relics and Artifacts in a minute. I just wanted you to take a peek at the video above, to get yourself prepared for what’s going to happen in the realm of antiques and such.

We used to call them “junk stores” — overcrowded, dry and dusty with undisturbed age, the objects lanquished in the darkness, waiting for a new owner and new life.

Sometime around 1950, those same junk shops switched signs, and became “antique shoppes”, with fewer items, better arrangement, and much higher prices.

There were, in the 1960s and 1970s, a smattering of shops that sold things older than antiques — those items that are 2,000 years old or older are now called “antiquities”, to distinguish them from “antiques”, things that are 100 years old or more.

Stuff that’s around 1,000 years old are downright Medieval, and are collected as such. Medieval things are generally at about neolithic or at most, bronze-age in nature. Continue reading

He Wants to Kill Us All

Now do you see the resemblance? That’s Mussolini on the left.

It’s the same guy. He’s taken rebirth and he’s back again, to kill us all with insane glee. He’s dancing while Rome burns. He really wants to kill us all, and get away with it.

Killing one man on Fifth Avenue will no longer satisfy him.

He wants to make “do nothing” the national policy on covid, and he’s doing just that. Everyone who dies is contributing to the great nation of Trumpland.

On election eve, Trump is planning to activate the National Guard while invoking the Uprising Act, just as Hitler did and, just as Hitler made his move the night before election, Trump’s plan is to declare himself the winner, and invoke the Uprising Act to cover himself, and to destroy any opposition.

The Poll-Watchers will be heavily armed former military commandos, and the idea is to scare the Hell out of anyone who comes around there looking even slightly off-white.

He’s counting on his personal army — his street militia — to keep him in power, and they’re ready to go to war for him, to re-fight the Civil War, and to re-instate slavery as a way of Amerikan life.

Yes, slavery. No bullshit, and I’m NOT making this up or being in any way hysterical.

I mean Actual Slavery. Keeping slaves is an accepted theory of business, and a slave-based economy and slave-holding business practices are in use and are accepted in many countries around the world, including — now — Washington, D.C., the new capitol of the New World Order, the Slave-State of Trumpland. Continue reading

Something is Rotten in Denmark

Hamlet says it best — “Something is rotten in Denmark”, and he’d be referring to his very own country, of which he is, for the moment, a prince in line for the throne, after his uncle, who murdered his father and married his mother — oh, it is all so COMPLICATED!!!

Did you know that things are going totally to Hell?

If you’ve been paying attention to the circus, the chief clown is planning to infect the entire nation with his Covid 19 virus, to which he is apparently immune.

Is he infectious?

Yes.

Does he care what happens to you? Yes, he does, in a strange sort of way — he wants to kill us all.

It’s his calculation that it won’t affect his loyal followers — they’re immune, too.

It’ll only kill off every last Democrat or anyone else who wants to give people who don’t happen to be his particular brand of loyal white Christian society a chance to live a life, and believe me, you’re on the list. Continue reading

Mike Pence’s Dancing Fly

If you made yourself watch the VP Debate last night, you’ll know what I mean when I say that the fly that landed on Mike Pence’s head and kept landing on it and dancing on his ever-thinning hair was the most exciting and informative part of the show, and I do mean “show”.

It was comical to see both candidates trying not to answer the toughies while attacking full-on and dodging oncoming slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, to coin a phrase.

Most folks have no way of knowing this, but Trixie Drosphilia, Mike Pence’s famous dancing fly is a personal friend and, as a matter of fact, I was her personal dance trainer for the film “Flies In My Soup”, which featured Harry the Termite and his band of renown.

I did some of the choreography for these first trial balloon videos for youtube featuring Trixie, who can dance ballet, concert-modern, flamenco and just about every modern dance you can name.

I’m up on all the latest dances, even hippity-hop. Yessir, you won’t catch me napping in the dance department.

I’ve even got her trained to perform ancient ritual sacred dances, which I’ll be posting soon enough, believe me. I’m braced for the complaints already, and I’m quite prepared to toss out any ballots I don’t like.

Oh, no, sorry, that’s not me talking there — for a moment, I started to channel Donald Trump — actually, the ghost of Donald Trump through a spiritual channel to which I never subscribed.

I don’t know how I got on their spam list, but there it is in a nutshell — I have dozens of FAXL albums and nobody to whom to send them — are you interested in geezer band music?

So, like I said in the virtual Ashram, I have about a hundred different avatar suits which happen to include several insects, one of which is a giant fly, and that’s the costume I wear for the dance videos. Continue reading

Open Letter to Kasie Hunt at MSNBC

An Open Letter to “Kasie” Hunt:

Day before yesterday, Kasie Hunt personally invited me, right there on her “Way Too Early” morning show, to email her and tell her why I’m up this early — right now, her show is just starting — I’m missing part of it because I came out here to the office to get this up on my blog page, and here it is:

Hunt. Your last name is “Hunt”. I only mention it, because there was rampant speculation that, after your “D.C.” program, nobody knows your last name. Well, in at least one case, that’s not true.
Now that we’ve got that over with, Hi, Kasie!
Like the London gardener in “Beyond the Fringe”, I’m always up around nine-ish, planting oats and carrots for the night-fighters. I’m a writer, artist, jazz musician and teacher of all those and more, and have always been a night-worker, the kind you don’t see in the shadows. I burn the Midnight Oil — always have, always will. Continue reading

Who is Jack Aiello?

 

I think you’re in for a few minutes of solid laughs here — I can’t imagine anyone getting through it without at least one break in the squalor of daily life.

The kid is amazing — he has a lot of talent, and clearly can break out of just the one gag.

That’s it for now — just wanted to share these unique comedy moments with you.

See You At The Top!!!

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Donald Trump has the Virus

The FIRST October Surprise is Here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXRBFWi1lHM

FIRST VERSE:

Donald Trump has the virus, Melania, too.

I know how I feel about this. How about you???

I’ve never wished anyone to get covid 19,

But just in this one single case — well, you know what I mean.

SECOND VERSE:

I had hopes that Biden would handle this guy,

But here is a new hope that fell from the sky.

I hope they live through it but get super-sick,

Melania deserves it, and so does that prick.

THIRD VERSE:

Let this be a warning, that this is no joke,

Whomever thinks that the virus is a Democratic hoax,

You really can’t fool us with fake legislature,

You can’t fool all the people all the time,

and it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.

FOURTH VERSE:

There’s more to this world, than Donald can know,

There’s spirit and kindness, and the Devil below.

Let Trump and his enablers, heed this advice,

You’d better be good, and you’d better be nice (Ho, Ho, Ho!)

CHORUS:

It’s all about the Mask – and the distance – and the washing,

It’s all about the Mask,

All about the Mask, yeah,

You’d better wear a Mask.