Happy New Year to anyone reading this! Here are a few updates. My book on anomalous and paranormal music, Music from Elsewhere, is now slated to be published by Strange Attractor Books in May. Here’s hoping there are no further delays… I was invited to give a presentation of this material in February, at the […]

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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 […]

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Happy New Year! I hope the few of you who read this are enjoying your lockdown. That fine singer, Meg Reichardt, has revived her Holiday Recording Party after a hiatus of seven years. She’s posted it, along with the past sessions, on Bandcamp. My contributions for 2020 are a new song, “When a Snowman Melts,” […]

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I have been asked by Norman Conquest, the indefatigable director of Black Scat Books, to post this announcement. Perhaps some of you will see fit to contribute to this useful reference work. (Posted by Doug Skinner)

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I will be presenting the latest version of my concert/talk on music attributed to fairies, aliens, and other shadowy entities, “Music from Elsewhere,” on March 5 at 7 pm. It’s part of the series Utopia/Dystopia, curated by Morbid Anatomy and Hauser & Wirth. It’s at Hauser & Wirth, 548 W. 22nd St., NYC, and admission […]

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I will be presenting the latest version of my concert/talk on music attributed to fairies, aliens, and other shadowy entities, “Music from Elsewhere,” on November 15 at 7 pm. It’s part of the series Utopia/ Dystopia, curated by Morbid Anatomy and Hauser & Wirth. It’s at Hauser & Wirth, 548 W. 22nd St., NYC, and […]

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Six of the videos Michael Smith and I made back in the ’90s will be screened in London, as part of the series TBCTV, curated by Mel Brimfield. Screenings are from 11:00 to 6:00, Friday Oct. 5, in the Lancaster Rooms of the very large and historic Somerset House. It’s free; also on the program […]

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My next translation of that peerless French humorist of the Belle Époque, Alphonse Allais, will be published by Black Scat Books this summer. This one is No Bile, from 1893. My horror story in sonnets, “The Werechurch,” will make its appearance in Dagger Magazine this summer too. It may give you nightmares. A choice selection […]

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I will be appearing on Bob Sikoryak’s long-running series “Carousel,” at Dixon Place, on Thursday, Oct. 19. Dixon Place is at 161A Chrystie St. (NYC), and the show is at 7:30. I’ll join other cartoonists in showing cartoons on the wall, and sing while Bob paints. There’s more info here. My cartoon “Musical Instruments” continues […]

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Black Scat Books will soon publish my translation of Alphonse Allais’s first book, Double Over: Blackcattish Stories (A se tordre: histoires chatnoiresques), embellished with my introduction, notes, and illustrations, as well as seven extra stories. I’ve almost finished a translation of The Cocktail Hour, a 1927 guide to cocktails and cocktail etiquette by Marcel Requien […]

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