Over on another Social Network, I was rejoicing that I’d written a sentence containing the phrase “fustilarian bellygods.” This occasioned a deal of speculation about what my sentence actually was.  I declined to answer, because I didn’t want to interrupt the flow of imagination that was going on. And I thought I’d stimulate imagination here, […]

Here I am, age five or so, charting the course into my future as I pilot the SS Mark Twain past the dangerous shoals of Walt Disney’s Adventureland. I still have my pilot’s certificate. I don’t remember the natty little jacket at all.

I saw fewer new acts the second night of Globalquerque, but that’s because some of the first night’s performers returned.  I’ll skip over those and get straight to the folks I hadn’t seen before. Tony Duncan is one of the talented Duncan brothers, all hoop dancers, and has won the World Champion Hoop Dancer award […]

I’ve been frantically busy and with little time for posting.   I’ve spent the last two nights at Globalquerque, the annual festival of world music, and will post more on that when I have a few free hours But in the meantime here’s a video of Maarja Nuut, who I saw the other night.  She’s […]