Month: November 2002

This baking website [Joy of Baking] seems quite useful. Heaps and heaps of information about baking and baking’s most used ingredients. A bit of the “science of baking”, if you will.

crane dream–goon drowns in crane guano after being smashed in head with peevish ex-wife’s handbag (brick inside)
but what the hell were the crane’s for?

Washpots are sliding
down underneath
the darkling
winter’s chalk

“awfulnesses”
onesies & twosies
threesies & sixsies

Ruprecht the Dancing Mule
(tap? salsa?)

Towards the end of sparkle shot flying outward into perspicacious night–dance! ye clowns, dance in fuddlement at the orneriness of starlight

Contrary to concepts of great and serious mindmatter, there is no “it” to toss around like a ragbaby, trainwreck bedamned, Horatio! With friends like Horatio, Hamlet (Hamlet, Horatio) who needs fingertwisters, torturers and bagmen?

Concepts bedamned–there’s plenty to go around!

+armadillos creeping in to take over SW military installation–under whose direction?

+magic coffee which causes people to never sleep–hence, sleep deprivation, hence, hallucination and other assorted sleeplessness related dementia

+but who could be protagonists?
—–mushroom farmer (“ordinary” mushrooms) in the sewers of… NY(?) Cleveland(?) Albuquerque(?) London(?)
——Lion tamer from Scandinavia
albino, afraid of rats (weasels? rodents?) and parrots. why? agents of…
——Scapparah, King of the Indies. S. wears a crown with a duck, seven stars, a pentlaganet, several South American diseases/parasites, loves scrabble and other wordgames, has 17 children of 14 wives/concubines etc. (maybe he’s the emperor of the Indies?)

Man can never leave diner, but he has a bottomless cup of coffee–cast of characters visit him… (literary)

Masks–used to represent the roles/characters people take on
what if in a “realistic” play actors wore marks, removed them at points when the “real” pokes through–or maybe a good acting exercise…

afternoon taffies in the sun/heat

Realism but include morality play chars—->
[Everyman
Delectible Temptation,
etc etc]
Punch, Judy, et al
Revenge tragedy
bedroom farce
historical/pastoral/comical
lots of “doorways”–no doors?
lots of rushing about/props “backstage”
only what? notihng btwn audience/backstage
needs to be funny, not stopping
oh, perhaps Horus could show up,
deliver some milk
Set could be a dogcatcher
How much can I cram into one thing?

Who knew A’s true name?