Tag Archives: irony

Everybody’s Automatic Door

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Allen

Indeed, all souls ultimately pass through the Everybody’s Automatic Door (EAD). Chiron takes your token, while Haydes punches your ticket, and off we sail across (or down) the river Styx, singing in close harmony while whole foods float by on … Continue reading →

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Baffles

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Allen

Preamble Funding. We need funding. At least several hundred bucks. Funds for baffles. Baffle-Bucks. Support Absorbency. Down with Reverberation. Support absorbency. (I know; I said that, but it bears reverbing.) Mute the blurt. In a word: Baffles. (alternatively) Baffles, baffles, … Continue reading →

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Fractals

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Allen

There were some lucid moments in the discussion, and I got in a few votes for not calling everything that has some discernible pattern “fractal.” The word “fractal” is just too fracking fun to throw around. It’s all fractal. Amazing. … Continue reading →

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Swahili

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Allen

According to Google Translate, working from the English, the phrase “Unapaswa kula mavi ya tembo!” translates from Swahili into “You should eat elephant dung.” My Ugandan and Kenyan friends won’t tell me if that’s correct, so I’m not sure if … Continue reading →

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2015 Redux

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Allen

Upon closer inspection, 2015 has turned out to be almost indistinguishable from 2014. At least, the first week of ’15 sure as hell ain’t easy to differentiate from the last week of ’14. Come to think of it, I recall this same observation … Continue reading →

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Overdue Get-Together in the “New” Year

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Allen

Thank you all, once again, for the New Year invitations. They brought a strange synergy, augmented by reading your collective Skunk River Review pieces while listening to the Columbia University Orchestra playing the Fratres for Cello. Sadly, the outer walls of my … Continue reading →

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Leaving for Chicago?

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Allen

To all my clients, students, tutees, master classers, apprentices, assistants, disciples, and customers who are departing this week to Chicago: What to do in Chicago — hmmm — Leave? Since I’m in a poetry mood of late, I guess I’d … Continue reading →

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Hell

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Allen

Folks have widely varying views of Hell, ranging from other dimensions filled with fire and torture tech to psychological modes of self-torment and fear. I have a somewhat different view of the place. If you went there, you’d find Hell is … Continue reading →

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True Facts about Spaghetti

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Allen

During the years I lived in Seelisberg on Lake Lucerne (aka Lac des Quatre Cantons / Fierwaldstattersee) we often joined in the feast after a long afternoon watching the Swiss farmers (usually a mom and pop) harvesting. Curiously, the Swiss … Continue reading →

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