The following is a selection of non-fiction written by the Editor during relaxed moments. Below that stuff is a list of links to various places around the web, pared down from an earlier version (since many of the old links are no longer valid).

Marshall Says Hello is the story of my son Marshall's birth. It gets off to a slow start but picks up a bit.
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet at CC is an account of the famed guitar foursome in performance near my home in the fall of 1996.
Earl and the Park is a story about a local homeless fellow who ran for mayor.
Roasted is one of the few pieces here that has actually been published (in Sacred City, a small Seattle mag). It's a bit of silliness about a coffee roaster.
BNL at Tower Records describes a Canadian pop band playing in a record store in Denver. This one is accompanied by photos.
Jazz Photographs This is not a piece of non-fiction, or even fiction, but some photographs I took when I was still living in Detroit, back somewhere around the dawn of time. The seven photos shown here are on display in a restaurant in my town, during the months of September and October.

Now here are a few links.

The Devil's Dictionary is at last online! Check out some vintage Ambrose Bierce for some wickedly scathing stuff. Perhaps a trifle more interesting is this Devil's Dictionary of the Day, which sounds like it is a daily offering from The Devil's Dictionary, but claims to be updated every thirty minutes. We haven't checked out the veracity of this claim.
John Kennedy Toole is the author of A Confederacy of Dunces and The Neon Bible. The former is one of my alltime favorite works of fiction. Last time I checked, this site included the Introduction to Dunces, and an excerpt from its first chapter.
Beer Styles are discussed in great detail on this page: ales, dortmunder, ice beer, porter...it may be more than you want to know. (My favorite is the substyle called bitter.) You can even download certain beers, provided you have the right binary-to-beer conversion software.
tribe.text is --- well, I haven't quite figured out what this site is, other than sort of an anti-Web site. I found it when I went looking for the dearly departed "Gabriel's HTML Editor List." Anyway, this place was pleasantly cynical.
The Daily Llama is a page with lots of goofy Monty Python stuff.
Musi-Cal is an excellent concept for a web page. This "musical calendar" site provides up-to-the-minute concert information --- "No weird pictures. No 200 kilobyte scanned album covers. No outdated listings. Just up-to-date music information," according to their text. It is, in short, a search engine for live music. We took a test drive and found some rock concerts we were looking for, but no jazz and no classical. But we weren't taking a scientific approach.
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet is a remarkable musical ensemble; if they come to your town, don't miss the show! I've had the pleasure of meeting member William Kanengiser on several occasions. This site consists of a review of an LAGQ performance.
The Abominable Lesbian Vampire Cappuccino Bar in Cyberspace is a site for the inimitable Jonathan Richman. There's also a second Jonathan Richman site to check out. Doobie dum de dum de dum dumma-dum-day...
Gordon's Place is a site given over to the Barenaked Ladies. No---there ain't no naughty photographs here. BNL is a Canadian pop band. If you visit Gordon's Place, be sure to check out Une Soir en Denver Avec BNL (under "BNL Concert Stories"), the editor's stirring contribution to the site, which describes the band's performance in Denver in Feb 95. Gordon's Place is unofficial. For an official BNL site, see the Barenaked Ladies Home Page. Lastly, here's another BNL story by the editor, complete with photographs. Everybody sing along: If I had a million dollars...
The Brothers Creeggan can be considered a spinoff of Barenaked Ladies, I reckon. Both brothers used to be in BNL. One split and the other remains. They do stuff together from time to time; their web site is basically a commercial page intended to sell you their new CD.
St. Alphonzo's Pancake Homepage What on earth?! This oddly-titled site has lots of interesting Frank Zappa stuff, like the late great composer's Playboy interview, and much much more.

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