I read the entire 120 Days Of Sodom by de Sade in two days. I came across it in my cousin’s attic, wiped off the dust and engrossed myself in the most despicable, most disgusting piece of literature I have ever seen, never for a moment tearing my eyes off the page, pausing only for cups of tea and cigarettes. I did not sleep all that weekend, surrounded by the dusky grime and darkness of the upstairs loft — a fitting scene in which …

The night Max made mischief of one kind
and another.

Picture: A little boy, dressed in a white wolf costume, chasing a small dog down the stairs with a fork in his hand, to stab.

He is Max. He is no ordinary little boy. He is wild. He can?t be tamed. He is energetic and creative and mean.

But, in a reversal of the normal arc of children’s books, in which things get crazier and crazier, Max’s mom steps in, quickly, to put the kabosh on Max’s misbehavior. …

Cabaradio
November 23, 2003



We rehearsed at the house of doreen peri and Clay “Lightning Rod” January, in Sterling, VA. Beautiful house. Spacious. Splendid art and photos on the walls, much of it the work of doreen herself. Amps, books, couches, plants, wide windows & windchimes, and plenty of electrical outlets to plug in our gear. Food. Doreen had cooked chili! I was in Heaven.

Kevin Pierce, an airplane pilot who currently performs in an aerial show, did a run-through of his “Jungle Buck” routine. This guy should …

It’s common among Beat aficionados to scorn the popular media version of the Beats, especially the term “beatnik”, and the stereotypical goatee-sporting hipster. But to a youngster growing up in a small town, like me, sensing there was more out there than what they taught in middle school, even the cliche hints of downtown jazz and nightlife and hip lingo were welcome. I could tell right away that Rod Serling was cool, from the subdued bongo drums in the opening theme to his sly, out-of-this-world …