My translation of Charles Cros’s Principles of Cerebral Mechanics has garnered a nice review from Tom Bowden, over here. No doubt you’ll want to read it carefully and then share it with all your friends.

My compilation of anomalous music, Music From Elsewhere, has been delayed until next year, since Strange Attractor Press is so busy. I suppose that gives me a chance to fuss over it some more.

My next book for Black Scat Books will be Shorten the Classics, a comic book in which 52 classic works of literature are reduced to four panels. I’ve been enjoying aborting so many tragedies: Narcissus realizes he’s not that handsome, Jean Valjean gets a job, Dante asks directions, Helen rebuffs Paris. I hope to finish it in October.

Also coming up from Black Scat is my next translation of Alphonse Allais, Amours, délices, et orgues (Loves, Delights, and Organs). The title is familiar to all French schoolchildren, those being the three words that are masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural. This one is slated for December.

My album of songs, It All Went Pfft, is mostly done, but I want to redo a couple of numbers. There’s always something.

And lastly, I continue to teach ukulele classes over Zoom, through the Jalopy Theatre. A fresh round starts next week.

(Posted by Doug Skinner)