Thomas Wictor

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A Druid in Los Angeles

Stephen Jay is a druid. He’s also been “Weird Al” Yankovic’s bassist for over thirty years. However, he’s also a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, lyricist, and classically trained composer who studied with John Cage, Lukas Foss, Max Neuhaus, and Charles Wuorinen, and he’s a music ethnographer who’s traveled the world playing with and recording folk musicians from…

 

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My interview with Fanfare

Fanfare has published a very long interview with me. The deal was they’d send me copies of the magazine and tell me when the interview would go on the Website. Neither promise was kept. Color me SHOCKED!!!!!!!!! The interviewer was Robert Schulslaper. Note that it’s a classical-music publication. The was Mike Albee’s idea of publicity….

 

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Excised Snippet Number Four

This is the fourth passage from my novel Invisible Idiot, which became Chasing the Last Whale, Volume Two of the Ghosts Trilogy. It was necessary to remove these scenes, but since I like them, I’m publishing them here when I get the urge. Mike Albee and Lura Dold of Sandpiper Publicity—who defrauded me of $40,000…

 

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Mike Albee is a proven fraud

Well, I was wrong. Earlier I said PayPal doesn’t get involved in disputes over services. From July 5, 2013, to January 7, 2014, Mike Albee and Lura Dold of Sandpiper Publicity defrauded me of $40,000 by exploiting my mental-health issues and the suicides of my parents. Today, PayPal refunded me $9000. I provided PayPal with…

 

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