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Sons of Dionysus, Chapter 12: The Round Table
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 30, 2011
Jim Knable’s Sons of Dionysus: a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. Chapter 12 A communal groan erupts when they all see me with my buzz cut. What have you done?! screams Cassius, though he has done much the same, having had his own trademarked hair shaved recently. Is it him? says Demetrius, a [...]
Sons of Dionysus, Chapter 11: Haircut
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 23, 2011
Jim Knable’s Sons of Dionysus: a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. Chapter 11 I make daily pilgrimages. One to the coffee house, one to the gate of the residential college. I know I don’t have time, nor should I be so obsessed as to stay for more than a minute or two. But [...]
Sons of Dionysus, Chapter 10: Roger the Bum
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 16, 2011
Jim Knable’s Sons of Dionysus: a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. Chapter 10 Charlegne was halfway to becoming Charles. The top half. S/he was still recuperating and would not be back with us for a little while longer. S/he sent reports to the group through Benjamin, who was still in recovery from his [...]
Sons of Dionysus: Burning Dove Video
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 13, 2011
The Sons of Dionysus’ first music video since 1927. Now in Color, with Sound! Meet the Sons of Dionysus Join the Dionysian Frenzy Follow the SODs on FB Mark Meatto (video) is the director of How To Grow A Band, a documentary film about Punch Brothers. The film has screened at Newport Folk Festival, Nashville [...]
Sons of Dionysus, Chapter 9: The Relatives
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 9, 2011
Jim Knable’s Sons of Dionysus: a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. CHAPTER 9 I did not go back home for the spring break. The SODs left in their vans and cars, heading south for their tour. I stayed in our room, in defiant solitude. Very few students remained with me. Those who did [...]
Sons of Dionysus, Chapter 8: Pig Roast Games
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: December 2, 2011
Jim Knable’s Sons of Dionysus: a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. CHAPTER 8 Every year before the spring tour, the SODs held a pigroast on top of West Mountain. Legend had it that the pigroaster was a man with no teeth, who drove up from the Appalachian Mountains with a dead pig in [...]
Sons of Dionysus Chapter 7: Cassandra
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: November 25, 2011
Jim Knable’s Sons of Dionysus: a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. CHAPTER 7 Something had happened to Arthur over the winter tour that had made him into a womanizer. Prior to that, our having bunkbeds was not an issue. He would pine over this or that girl from his classes, and occasionally fool [...]
Sons of Dionysus, Chapter 5: Acid Declarations
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: November 11, 2011
Jim Knable’s Sons of Dionysus, a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. CHAPTER 5 Violence, Moses said, is all men have to distract them from lust. Women, he said, are more evolved, except when they are overcome with lust, and then they are capable of behaving as badly as men. Men start wars because [...]
Sons of Dionysus, Chapter 4: The Eclipse
Posted by: Keith Meatto on: November 4, 2011
Jim Knable’s Sons of Dionysus, a lusty novel of myth, mirth, and music. CHAPTER 4 Every year the SODs did two cross-country tours. Winter and Spring. Two weeks each. In my imagination these were rolling orgies: drugs and booze and sex and mayhem, violating children and animals, leaving teenage girls devirginized and women pregnant and [...]
