Bandersnatch is one of several villains/monsters to feature in my next novel, Hellikon, and is an homage, obviously, to XXXX’s creature of the same name. Butch Dante, February 11th, 2023 Bandersnatch… Eight legs moving in outlandish four-by-four syncopation. A spider,...

This is the opening to my novel, Hellikon, the sequel to Carybdis & the Boy. I’m about half way through writing it. Butch Dante, February 11th, 2023 Welcome Pilgrim, to The Bit Just Before the End of The World. Mankind’s eventual nemesis enters humbly, in the form...

This is a letter I was prompted to write after my hilariously unsuccessful attempt to apply to participate in the Master of Fine Art program at The New School in Manhattan. I was channelling Hunter S. Thompson, who was the master of this sort of thing. Butch Dante,...

What Becomes a Music Legend   Harbingers, Easter Eggs, & premonitions … the Devil’s in the micro detail   There’s a chilling moment in the documentary Gimme Shelter, about the pivotal 1969 Altamont Freeway music festival, that defines and confirms Mick...