Issue 16: Music

Welcome back, Pancake pied-pipers!

This instrumental issue is as well-written as a Rachmaninoff piano Prelude and twice as easy to pronounce! We’ve got more pentatonic prose, percussive poetry, and psalmic photography than you can shake a handbell at.

Composer and saint Hildegard von Bingen lays down her visionary advice in this edition of “Past Help.” “Whistle Stop” provides the soundtrack to a political microcosm on the train from Toronto to Ottowa, “Performance Notes on My American Quotidian—A Musical Memoir” recalls music’s power to transform the mundane into the transcendent, and “K-Joy Holiday” finds two misfits finding each other during this festive holiday season. Editorial intern Ruth “Rooster” Flanagan returns to objectify parts of this balanced breakfast in “Hot Men With Breakfast Foods.”

So shuffle that sheet music, crank those speakers to eleven, and drop the needle on the vintage vinyl opus of laughter that is Hobo Pancakes!

With musical sincerity,

The Hobo Pancakes Team

Letters to the Editor

by Ruth “Rooster” Flanagan, editorial intern

Screams & Grumbles

“13 Songs for the Freelancer”

by Lora Shinn & Peter Imbres

“Instant Credibility”

by Justin Laub

Salute Our Shorts: The News In Brief

“Ripping the Headlines”