The monkey played harmonicabeside the highway diner sign,small hands gripping metallike a secret he could almost translate. Truckers stopped laughing first.Then the children.Then even the waitress carrying coffeepaused beneath the […]
We went to Ikea for dinner on Valentines day. It was a good choice. Trays sliding forward like well behaved measures in 4/4. No candlelight. Just mashed potatoes, lingonberry sauce, […]
The piece I wrote for the German magazine called Improfil came out this month. It’s odd everything is in German yet my article remains in English. Earlier they told me […]
I don’t believe in reincarnation, but then the brown sugar dies and turns into a rock, and I add a fruit peel, an orange, most days, and hours later it’s […]
Near the end of Robert Priest’s show, I get waved onstage to sit in. Bob Cohen starts flashing chord shapes at me helpful like hand puppetry. I say, “No thanks, […]
Improvisation is doubt with good posture. You walk out there pretending you know what you’re doing, which is the first lie necessary for the evening to continue. The audience wants […]
There is a guy on Instagram named Darren Walsh who improvises puns. It’s astounding. He stands in public places, in the UK, and offers puns to walkers by. People try […]
The universe is so tightly wound. Everything follows rules as if machine-driven. Planets rotate, flowers bloom, dogs bark, ants scurry and predators eat minnows. Humanity moves through all of it […]
I ask the Lyft guy about his car. I always do. It’s a reflex at this point. I know the rough prices, the dealer choreography, the creative interpretations of larceny […]
On the subway a guy across from me, big white hair pompadour,exactly like Jim Jarmusch, film-ghost of a downtown dream,and I liked believing it was him,this artist of smoke and […]