Introducing Peloquin*

from In Concert: Sasquan 2015 by Tom Smith

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Clive Barker's novel Cabal (upon which the movie Nightbreed is based) tell of Midian, the hidden city where the monsters dwell. Here is a sketch of one of the characters:

Known in certain quarters as the Great Virility, Peloquin has little time for anything but adventuring and the pursuit of the female. He makes no excuses for the breadth of his taste. It is the idea of the female he claims he is obsessed with; to make too nice a distinction between species is in defiance of one of Midian's fundamental principles: that Breed can be part animal, vegetable, or mineral. If a rock is possessed of a cleft, he says, then it demands his affections. He has no children, however. The only way he can lay claim to a family is with his bite. Even though expressly forbidden by the laws of Midian, he regularly ventures into the Natural world and swells the number of his tribe, the Qualm, by passing their attributes into innocent blood. Though he should have been exiled for these transgressions years ago, he is one of Midian's most powerful creatures; a rebel whose crimes are countenanced because the spirit of the Breed burns so brightly in him.

-- Excerpted from The Nightbreed Chronicles
© Clive Barker. Reprinted without permission.

The song PQR ("PeloQuin's Rap") relates one of that character's "nights out". It has an, ahem, intense effect on some of my female fans. (The best review I ever got: a friend of a friend, hearing PQR for the first time, whispering, "That sound you hear is my nipples ripping through my brassiere.")

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from In Concert: Sasquan 2015, released August 9, 2016

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Weird Al with more books, JoCo with more jokes, Carlin with more Cthulhu. Since 1985, Tom Smith has been breaking hearts, minds, and laws of propriety and physics with his insane blend of sf/fantasy, Life With Computers, pop culture, politics, and puns. More than twenty albums later, he maintains the best is yet to come. ... more

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