A Day off (for Me)

 There’s a phrase that just doesn’t sing: “the libertarian obstetrician.”

Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

It takes a long time to grow young.

— Pablo Picasso

Today, I heard my friend and colleague Todd Brunel perform at two different events: an afternoon poetry reading at Longfellow House, where he played an Eric Dolphy-inflected fantasia after Billie Holiday’s “God Bless the Child.” and a collaborative concert of the Improbable Beasts, Courtney Swain and Curtis Hartshorn at a trap set.

Also, when I was working on the Viola Sonata:

Now just past the halfway mark with Fair Warning. 20 July 2010

And: practiced the [Heedless] Watermelon. 20 July 2009