Mixed Meters

We live in the vicinity of a high school. The local litter has a certain sophomoric cast. I've learned to pick up odd bits of paper in...

You can visit Bird Brains of Pasadena 1 which shows pigeons and a hawk and a poor lost finch and a dead something and the pelican in our ki...

This is the twenty-first Mixed Meters post about politics. It is a review of a book called Young J. Edgar: Hoover, The Red Scare and The As...

In classic 30 Second Spot fashion the long title of this short quarter-tone piano piece was a sentence spoken by a high school student to n...

I haven't composed anything in some time - several months at least. And I've been feeling bad about that. There are several nearly ...

Walking down Fair Oaks Avenue this morning I noticed an empty lot which looked like it was straight out of my days in graduate school. You s...

Recognize this tune? . Of course you do; even though this midi sequence is just the chord progression. But it represents my first encounter ...

I scanned five of my old doodles and altered the background color using Photoshop to create a sequel to the earlier Mixed Meters post entitl...

A link to this article: Collins dictionary asks public to rescue outdated words appeared in my email thanks to Scott, Mixed Meters' rea...

A lot of this post deals with Yoko Ono. One night many years ago when I was a freshman in college I spent what seemed like hours, stoned out...

Here's a picture I took in October 2002 from the Hill Street Pasadena Starbucks looking east. Not long afterwards this lovely building w...