Gary Schwartz directed a two-day workshop to produce this short frame-by-frame animation. I joined in the class and also made the music (and Jeff Jimison voices the late Senator Thomas Palmer.

This incredible podcast documenting the Weird Al universe honored me by interviewing me across two episodes!

Fans from the newsgroup alt.music.weird-al mailed cassette tapes to my mom’s P.O. box when I was 15 so I could compile this: the first-ever “Weird Al” Yankovic tribute album. Long unavailable, it’s back on this site for free as of June 27, 2020.

5 hours and 44 minutes of rain and other sounds recorded with binaural microphones at the Western edge of Downtown Detroit on 5/15/2020 during Covid lockdown.

Trailerama

Greetings all! We have been busy this month. First, we made a new trailer for our Youtube channel…

A year ago, while bitterly complaining to someone working for a local transit provider about Detroit’s ineffective services, he asked me to write it all down. So here it is, presented as a blog post. This post isn’t satire, it’s not about Zelda and the Unibrows, and, frankly, it’s pretty dry. A few things have changed in the year since I wrote this commentary, and I’ve added those at the end. Enjoy, transit nerds!

Between Downtown Detroit and Corktown is an anti-pedestrian zone framed by the MGM Casino and some not-very-well-designed “green space”, all overwhelmed by giant roads. Revolutionary War General Thadeus Kosciuszko greets visitors to one wedge of this ephemeral land, once a row of shops in Corktown’s “skid row”, later destroyed by the 1960s construction of The Lodge expressway.