https://www.briancharlesclark.com A Journal of the Irrepressible Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:19:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dick Cheney is POTUS while George is under anesthesia for a "routine colonoscopy," say White House reporters. It's a chilling thought," one passerby told AXcess News when asked if they were concerned over Cheney's short-term rule of the White House. Girl-gone-wild Cheney says, "Give me my nuclear codes. Give me my ... https://www.briancharlesclark.com/a-cheney-saturday/ fiction by Brian Charles Clark “I’m in heaven,” Orkney sings as he and his little black bag bloom through the door. I’d swear he was gesticulating wildly, but no, it’s just his aura flaring. I’m smacking cornflakes, sitting stoic as a reader in bed. “Where ya been? Been specten ya.” Orkney trips another step ... https://www.briancharlesclark.com/bang/ More fun with the letter Q and the binary number of the beastbot: exQorpse, a PHP-driven dadabase from Shawn Rider. I say "more," because Shawn has done other things--many brilliant, weird, and irrepressible things--like this before. exQorpse is premised on a sound idea shared by surrealism and new media: conversation ... https://www.briancharlesclark.com/exqorpse/ a musical offering by DJSkrotekkki I'm not sure what all goes on in the mind of DJSkrotekkki, but it is surely wondrous strange. I'll let him speak for himself: My latest assault on the sonic front emerged from the trenches of a creative block. After countless months had come and gone without ... https://www.briancharlesclark.com/im2sexy/ music by DJ Funken Wagnalls, video by vjvz It ain't Hollywood, it's Puck. Less than 4 minutes long. https://www.briancharlesclark.com/birds-gonna-fly-away/ Beatmeister James Greathouse writes: Terrence McKenna reads the opening to Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Made with Audacity and Sony ACID XPress 5.0 (both free). Made on a Dell I rescued from a dumpster with a 930 MHz Intel Pentium III processor and 512 MB of RAM. All I did was add a ... https://www.briancharlesclark.com/second-shot-by-james-greathouse/ A few facts (some may be made up) about Permeable Press. https://www.briancharlesclark.com/a-brief-history-of-permeable-press/ Here's "Stein's Box" for your listening pleasure. I'm not sure how to categorize this piece: is it techno? trip-hop? drum 'n' bass (without the bass)? "Stein's Box" was inspired by reading Gertrude Stein's prose-poetry, especially "A Box" in the Collected Writings of Gertrude Stein. Your humble DJ adapted Stein's words, ... https://www.briancharlesclark.com/steins-box/ Help yourself to the MP3 of "I Think the Government Is Watching Me." This may be the world's shortest rap song. Cottonmouth and I recorded this a couple years back; it's been languishing on a hard drive for far too long. The image is from Robert Edward's film Paranoia. https://www.briancharlesclark.com/69/ I'm reviving Puck, which I published as an ink-on-paper magazine back in the 1990s when there were still trees. I'm looking for a few good contributors. Interested? https://www.briancharlesclark.com/puck-is-back/