by Splabman | Mar 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Gigs Ahoy! I’ll be participating in several readings over the next few weeks. I’ll have manuscript versions of Pig War & Other Songs of Cascadia and other merch. Saturday, March 7th, 2-6P at the Cornish Blackbox Theater, 201 W. Mercer at Seattle...
by Splabman | Mar 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
The photo did not crash the internet, but got my friends talking, or expressing concern from Seattle to Cuba to Moscow to Morocco and beyond I am sure. As reported in an earlier haibun, I am undergoing tests to see if I have Sleep Apnea. Responses to my posting of...
by Splabman | Mar 1, 2015 | POPO
I am so envious of these four chapbooks and delighted they were gifts recently given to me. All from Cascadians and all quite worth while. Wikipedia (by way of the O.E.D.) says: “Chapbook is first attested in English in 1824, and seems to derive from the word...
by Splabman | Feb 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
I should not have been so naïve to think a post that referenced religion would have gone by without someone reacting as if I’d just stabbed a pig. But add Facebook and the culture of narcissism and you get camps and an internet sh*tstorm. What I get though, is...
by Splabman | Feb 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
Going through Fatherhood a second time, there are many notions that go through my mind on a regular basis. One is what will be my youngest daughter’s earliest memory? I think about dancing in the kitchen to Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Orchestra, or to the...
