McPuzo & Trotsky The Wandering Minstrels of 1921 & The Armchair Geographers May 20, 2009

McPuzo & Trotsky the wandering minstrels of 1921. Let the New Listener make no Mistake! McPuzo and Trotsky present to the Audience a thoroughly original Revue, untainted by the Base and Vulgar Leitmotifs leaned upon by others who purvey themselves as "Artists".

We shall not Name them, eh, O'Genovese and Ivanovich? McPuzo and Trotsky have been writing fine Songs which Satirize and Amuse since 1917. Before that it was pretty much all crowbars.

Heinrich McPuzo - trumpet violin, vocals, Sid Trotsky - vocals, banjo.

Uh, wait, trumpet violin? Yes, this early 20th Century instrument was a must for the vaudeville stage and wax recordings where the trumpet horn amplified the sound of the violin. McPuzo & Trotsky make music the old-fashioned way.

Armchair Geographers - Armchair traveling music. The 16th Association Of Armchair Geographers, six great academicians—Lombard, Gaines, Higgensengenensen, Henderson, Macgreggor and Pinsford—focus their boundless energies on the problematic, though no less salient diatribes of missing anthropological theorist and pie eating champion, CF Hibbens.

It was through the early efforts of Hibbens that the Armchair Geographers were reformed after nearly 400 years of dormancy. The oft maligned anthropologist is known not merely for this singular achievement, but for his vast contributions to the study of tribal penis sheathes and for his devotion to an outsized, 400 pound Middle Caledonian manwife, "the womanly Mertz." (See, More Notes On My Savage Manwife, ch. 11-16, Knopf, '03).

Perhaps the most astonishing of CF Hibbens' great discoveries, however, are the great wooden balls, or "sailing balls" he allegedly unearthed during the problematic Third Trobriandian Expedition of 1915. The Armchair Geographers now continue on where the great Hibbens left off.

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