Hundred Mountain

A Facebook Exchange Considered as a Script by Beckett.

I created this video for an event honoring the Winter Solstice, called The Solstice Ball. Consider it my unconventional seasonal greetings to you, a bit of meditative, ruminative imagery and music.

ROADWORD An occasional series on notable road trips into and out of WestVirginiaVille Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens, right before their Nov. 6, 2010 ‘Purple Wedding to the Mountains’ on the campus of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio photo by douglas imbrogno | click bigger Part 1: Annie Sprinkle Comes to Dinner PART 2: Zoot-Suiting [...]

My work has yet, alas, to make it to the New York Times. But I’m glad to report one of my songs is currently mentioned in a New York Times blog, “Paper Cuts: A Blog About Books.” That’s a start. I got an e-mail yesterday from a writer named Bill Peschel who has a new [...]

Encountering former porn star Annie Sprinkle in an Indian restaurant in downtown Charleston, W.Va., she and her West Virginia native wife reveal their upcoming Purple Wedding to the Mountains. And your intrepid narrator bags an opening gig to the event.| READ ON …

Backyard Still Life with Wine, Cigar & Sun.

“The only hope is setting out to find/A form of honest discourse to reclaim/ The honest discourse fools have undermined.” ~ Elomire from David Hirson’s play “La Bête,” quoted in John Lahr’s New Yorker review

Mobile phone visitors: If you cannot view the video player, watch the video at YouTube at this link: Here’s a quick take video slideshow by your faithful citizen of WestVirginiaVille, standing amid the huddled, laughing masses at the Rally to Restore Sanity held today in Washington, D.C., hosted by the inimitable Jon Stewart and Stephen [...]

I have been missing in action from this blog for more than a month, toiling over this blog instead. Take a look – and do subscribe in the uper right-hand corner if you want to kep tabs on this latest project/experiment to attempt a multimedia web mag and then some. The ‘then-some’ is coming next [...]

“Love the Earth and the Love will bring you Down to Earth.” ~ my dear carpenter compadre Raymond (signing off in a letter written on a very thin slice of wood)