Th. Metzger is a writer and musician who lives in Western New York

Western New York

Western New York is the westernmost region of the state of New York. It includes the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Niagara Falls, the surrounding suburbs, as well as the outlying rural areas of the Great Lakes lowlands, the Genesee Valley, and the Southern Tier. Some historians, scholars and others...

. He teaches writing and literature at the State University of New York at Geneseo and Brockport.

Writings

Th. Metzger is the author of:

Books:

• Big Gurl - Penguin 1989
• Shock Totem - Penguin 1990
• Drowning in Fire - Penguin 1992
• This is Your Final Warning - Autonomedia
  Autonomedia
  Autonomedia is one of the main North American publishers of radical theoretical works, especially in the anarchist tradition. For many years, it was linked with Semiotext, one of the major sources for English language translations of post-structuralist literature, especially in the 1980s...
  
  1992
• Blood and Volts: Edison, Tesla and the Electric Chair - Autonomedia 1996
• The Birth of Heroin and the Demonization of the Dope Fiend - Breakout Books 1998
• Select Strange and Sacred Sites: the Ziggurat Guide to Western N.Y. Exit 18 Books 2002
• Hydrogen Sleep and Speed - http://www.poetspress.org/index.shtml Poet's Press 2011

Short nonfiction:

• "Transform and Rebel" Loompanics
  Loompanics
  Loompanics Unlimited was an American book seller and publisher specializing in nonfiction on generally unconventional or controversial topics, with a philosophy considered tending to a mixture of libertarian and left wing ideals, although Loompanics carried books expressing other political...
  
  1992
• "Vicious Protoplasm: Eugenics and Modern Sex-War" Loompanics 1994
• "Tobacco in Chains" Loompanics 1994
• "Dr. Ripper: the Rise of Gynecological Surgery" Loompanics 1996
• "This is Your Lobotomy" Loompanics 1997
• "Who Put the Coke in Coca-Cola?" Loompanics 1998
• "Descent into Hell" 1998
• "Masturbational Insanity" Loompanics 1999
• "Destroy all Goo-Goos: America’s Forgotten War" Loompanics 1999
• "The Satan Sellers" Loompanics 2001
• *"Nameless Dread: The Function of Fear in a Controlled Society" Loompanics 2003
• "Seized by Meat" Flurb
  Flurb
  Flurb is a science fiction webzine, edited by noted science fiction author Rudy Rucker. In addition to short stories, Flurb features paintings and photography by Rucker. It is released biannually...
  
  2007
• "The Masonic Dream Engine" Flurb 2008

Short Fiction:

• "Black Wax" and "X-Axis Versus Jocko" Semiotexte USA 1987
• "All Right, Everybody on the Floor" Semiotexte S.F. 1989
• "Downbound Train" Air Fish 1993
• "Dark, Dark, Disco Days" Snake Eyes 1993
• "Severin Hedz" Shock Rock 1994
• "Star Time" Proud Flesh 1994
• "Pyre" Fear Itself 1995
• "The Meat Specter" Ritual Sex 1996
• "Juice Boy Bucktooth Orpha Toy" Shock Waves 1996
• "The Fly Room" Love in Vein II 1996
• "Sphincter and Sphinx"Flurb
  Flurb
  Flurb is a science fiction webzine, edited by noted science fiction author Rudy Rucker. In addition to short stories, Flurb features paintings and photography by Rucker. It is released biannually...
  
  #10, 2010

Poetry

• "Cinnabar Charm"
• "Red Virgin" Poet's Press 2009

He was a feature writer and columnist for City Newspaper (Rochester, N.Y.) from 1999-2006.
He is represented by Christopher Schelling of the Selectric Artists Agency.

Music

In the 1980s, he performed solo under the name Blind Dudu Process.

He has sung with and played tenor sax, ontic trombone, trumpet, guitar and percussion in a number of bands, including:

• Metzger, Landers, Seman (1983–1985)
• Health and Beauty (1985–1988)
• Nemo's Omen (1992–1995)
• The Fabulous Rectotem (1996–1999))
• The Badenovs (1999–2001)
• Invisible Stain Removers (2010- present

The Badenovs produced two CDs: Step on it Big Boy and Fearless Lieder, which feature the following songs written by Metzger:

• "Who’s Been Raising the Dead Since I’ve Been Gone?"
• "(It’s Time to) Party With Hitler’s Dog"
• "Codeine and Corn Liquor"
• "I’ll Never Eat Human Flesh Again"
• "Dead Pope in the Road"
• "Old Devil Spam"
• "Stinkmeat Jubilee"
• "I am the Other White Meat"
• "High On Depression"
• "Sweet Empire of Filth"

External links

• Metzger's weblog