Lemurian Congress

I didn't see anything interesting in the stores and I didn't have any money. When I talked to the boy at the shoe store he kept rear...

In the November 29, 1930 issue of The New Yorker, Robert Benchley concluded his weekly theatre column with this: I am now definitely ready ...

Okay, sure, in the brains of horny consumers you MIGHT find a link between CARS and sex. But MODEMS? I have previously mentioned the tras...

For the past six weeks or so I have been engaged in a Cooverthon...that is, I've been re-reading all of Robert Coover's books* in ...

I'm working toward the first Lemurian Congress album, tentatively (but with much certainty) entitled "A Storm Targets Your Childhoo...

After a year in University I realized that I needed to get a job. Fortunately I'd fallen in with the members of industrial/noise band ...

I picked you because of your sweet voice, your softened Rs and your awkward drawling vuh. "How vewwy stwange" you said to me whe...

The rumours are true: Mike Meyers can do no wrong! This is not because he hasn't tried. Before he starts working on any movie he wonders...

I'm re-reading " Aztec ," the Gary Jennings book that I first read many years ago, and I have a few things to add to my previo...

Over the years I have become a better person, but there is still a type of person who frustrates me: she (or he) who monopolizes the dancefl...

Once a year (approximately) I hear a song that is Pure Ear Ecstasy. It "sends" me. It gradually seeps into my brain and possesses ...

I don't know about insects eating oatmeal for breakfast -- I suppose they'll eat anything for breakfast, actually -- but I'll sa...

I'm sitting here watching " Xanadu " and trying to define the elements of it which make me slightly queasy. It's not the m...

The state of burlesque occasionally appears in the pages of the old New Yorker, and every few years the reporters mention Minsky's . The...

Some days, to pass the time, I read back issues of '80s computer magazines. It's a nerdy pursuit but sometimes I run across somethin...

I was an avid Doctor Who fan as a child, but I stopped watching the program midway through the Peter Davison era. So when I resurrected my f...

At Gen-X video they have a special rainbow-coloured sticker that they place on movies with homosexual themes. I'm sure that the primary ...

The man with the grey toque leaned against her, using her shoulder to support himself. He could come no closer because there were too many p...

Yesterday was the long-awaited day for my MRI. I'm not going to tell you about the more unpleasant parts because I don't think such ...