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New Track: Alger

Wrote this song a long time ago, but it sadly cycles around to relevance every so often and I have to update the last verse.

21h ago

21h ago

Final cover reveal for Pirate Cove Music Fest

Final cover reveal! Posters from all 52 weekends of the 2024 Pirate Cove Music Fest, with weird album covers and annotations. Gorgeous…

1d ago

Two-page spread showing the cover of a book, right, and its back cover, left, with a typical sales blurb. The book is “A Year of Weekends” which appears in white text at the top of the cover, in a pale blue sky from which descend business-suited skeletons holding black umbrellas. Each clutches a dark blue briefcase that matches their suit. They hover over a cemetery, with pine trees in the distance and old stone monuments closer up. In the foreground, a road stretches off to the right, toward th

1d ago

Bringing all the weird to the Cove

What a weekend at Pirate Cove Music Fest. Ever wonder what would happen if Kafka’s nightmares got loose in a 1980s cyberpunk garage…

3d ago

A colorful poster for a music festival headlined by the bands Maudlin Roger, jolly, Pronounced “Eeeee”, and Bear Trap on a Stick

3d ago

Rinzai Homiletics (and more!) at Pirate Cove

One of my oldest and dearest friends is in town this weekend for #PCMF, and let me tell you, this is no ordinary reunion.

Nov 29

A colorful poster for a music festival headlined by the bands Answers in Abiogenesis, Tintenangst, and Rinzai Homiletics

Nov 29

Geek week at PCMF

It’s full-on geek week at Pirate Cove. Just look at the closers: Friday is [Rock|Space] Vegas, with their glitzy Elvis-in-Bedrock mashups…

Nov 22

Geek week at PCMF

Nov 22

PCMF: Tax haven chanteys and Gilgamesh

Really looking forward to this weekend’s closer at PCMF. Like you, I first heard Friend of the Show when they were a Big-Five house band

Nov 15

PCMF: Tax haven chanteys and Gilgamesh

Nov 15

When are we this time

PCMF’s temporal autonomous zone comes back to bite us

Nov 8

When are we this time

Nov 8

It’s LITERARY AF at PCMF

It’s LITERARY AF week at the Pirate Cove Music Fest. Not only is Ass Sadness closing us out (hello, a little thing called “Waxing My…

Nov 1

A colorful poster for a music festival headlined by the bands Eposure Zone, A Fistful of Mullet, and (He has the) Ass Sadness

Nov 1

Awe at PCMF

I am totally in awe of the musicians at this weekends Pirate Cove Music Fest

Oct 25

Awe at PCMF

Oct 25

High concept week at PCMF

High-concept music this week at PCMF, with groups that probe, fill, and extend just about every idiosyncratic rabbit hole…

Oct 18

A colorful poster for a music festival headlined by the bands Morcellated, Riding the Pine, and Evolving Into Crabs

Oct 18

John G. McDaid

John G. McDaid

(he/him) Science fiction writer, folk/filk singer-songwriter, media theory professor, and theatre reviewer from Rhode Island.

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