Friday, February 23, 2007

Go Go Gadget Beatbox

You must check this out.

50 points if anybody can tell me the name of the song he breaks into in the middle. 100 points and a batch of chocolate chip cookies (seriously) to anybody who can tell me the format that made the song popular in the early days of personal computing, and the name of the program I would've used to play it on with my Mac SE.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

(Lucid bent the cover tree,)

This is one of my few sketch poems. A sketch is a literary form wherein the author sets out simply to describe a scene, generally in prose. I think of this form as a cross between poetry and photography, the other art form I'm most heavily involved in. If I ever find the cover tree, I will certainly take a picture and post it here.

Lucid bent the cover tree,
only scattered fragments falling from
sun to field's floor,
quiet, ringing warm against
blanket comforted roots and grass,
and curled figures, soft in sleep below.
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