This website counts as a published work, I
suppose. I have spotted visitors in my log file from every
continent except Antarctica. Since I used to work for the US
Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab, I know
people who travel to Antarctica regularly, so someday I will
probably get some hits from there as well. (Perhaps I have
gotten some Antarctic hits already, ya never know!) I would love
to get more hits, and I would also love to get more people
clicking on the links on these pages.
Here is a link back to my Home page, just in case you haven't seen
it yet or want to go back.
Occasionally I will post links to things I
have written on the site, even though they might be of
peripheral relevance to whatever the heck it is that this site
is about. Like, ya know:
You probably already know about this book
unless you got here without seeing my home
page first. The Forgotten Liars
is my version of the Great American Novel, a
sweeping view of a tiny slice of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
If nothing else, The Forgotten Liars certainly is American and it certainly is sweeping.
This is a technical report I coauthored with
Roy Bates while working at CRREL
in Hanover, NH. It contains a few ideas for
estimating average snow depth based on more readily available
climatic parameters such as snowfall, precipitation,
temperature, etc. There are many references to it on the web.
I was one of several
dozen artists who contributed to a 2-CD anthology on Larry
Polansky's Frog Peak
record label. The pieces are all exactly one minute long and are
all derived from the same sample, of Chris Mann reading one of his
poems. I originally intended for my piece to be called "The
Pragmatic Signal" but it ended up being entitled "Untitled." I
created it using CoolEdit
shortly after Princess Diana died. Frog Peak Catalog
#FP19.
The
simplest way to get the actual CD is to buy it from Frog Peak. It is catalog
number FC19. You can order it from the CD Catalog
page on the web site or by phone or mail. The last time I
checked the price was US$20 for a 2-CD set. The contact info is:
This is as good a place as any to mention the
fact that I was an extra in Jay
Craven's 1998 film A Stranger in the Kingdom, based on the novel by Howard
Frank Mosher. The novel is a wide-ranging magical-realist
epic which weaves together over a dozen subplots spanning 200
years of history in the fictional town of Kingdom Common,
Vermont. The movie concentrates on a recent subplot, about a
black retired Air Force chaplain who comes to town in the mid
1950s to be the local minister and ends up getting framed for
murder. It's an interesting movie with a great cast, starring Ernie
Hudson as Rev. Walt Andrews. I
got to work with Hudson in the scenes I was in, and I played a
beer-soaked onlooker during the climactic scene where Rev.
Andrews punches out a local bully named Harlan Kittredge (played
by Rusty De Wees.) This is a rare example of
a film about Vermont made by Vermonters, showing what goes on
outside the frame of the quaint picture postcard.
As a writer, I am pleased to note that the
novelist Howard Frank Mosher was fully involved in the making of the film.
Mosher's involvement went far beyond simply collaborating on the
screenplay: Jay Craven actually used Mosher's barn in Chelsea,
Vermont as a soundstage, and he also pitched crafts tents on
Mosher's lawn. This is one case where the writer was not banished
from the set!
In the 1980s, I appeared in several very small
literary magazines, including The
National Poetry Magazine of the Lower East Side, Shiny
International (the arts and
poetry zine edited by Michael Friedman and Stephen Hall, not the
fetish porno mag), Big Scream
(edited by David Cope), and Contact II.
And, I published poems in several student
publications while attending Columbia and USC. One of
these magazines, The Columbia Review, actually does have a website.
At Columbia, I was
on the editorial board of The
Columbia Barnard Course Guide (now
defunct) and the Jester of
Columbia (still
in existence.)
[September
9,
2009] I have made 
