Imitations of Immorality

Home of the Immoral Bard

All of these works are copyright Christopher J. O'Brien, World Rights Reserved. Don't steal my stuff. But enjoy it if you are so inclined.

This is a project I've been working on, of literary parodies and comic verse. I haven't completed too much of it yet, but I hope to keep at it until I have a book-length collection.

Please note:

The Immoral Bard does not condone worldly immorality; instead, he is only in favor of behaving rather irreverently towards words, language, and literature--and music--encompassing a kind of (post)modernistic attitude that traditions, and rules, are made to be broken--stagnancy stifles life! We should "sing. . .a new song," one that sometimes recalls, playfully, the great old songs.

Much of this material comes from ideas murkily dreamt up during my study of Literature at the National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

"http://www.geocities.com/immoralbard/" will also be a home for the foundling fathers of larger playful progeny, including wordplay like palindromes, anagrams, puns, and silly but non-parodic writings.

Other creative writing projects, (mostly fragmentary, I'm afraid!) will be kenneled here too.

So will appreciations and musings on rather more-recognized parodists. Just to mention some of them, I will type the names of:
Spike Jones
Stan Freberg
P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele)
Tom Lehrer
Alan Sherman
The Rutles (Music by Neil Innes)
Monty Python's Flying Circus

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Titles by the Wondrous Immoral Bard:

The first poem written as the Immoral Bard, "Owed on a Grecian Urn" based on the wonderful "Ode" by John Keats

Two companion pieces, "Inspiration [Once Around the Block]" and "Expiration Date"

"Stanzas Written on the Road Between Pisa and Florence," taking a similarly-titled piece by Shelley a bit too literally

Other writings by Christopher J. O'Brien:

Four new Sonnets, written as instructional aids for the Sonnet Celebration at NSYSU 2002

Unfulfilled Dreams, or Grate Expectations
Coral and Tonkers
Greta and Garret
Walter's Adventures in Literary Land
Virginia Woolf parody: "The Good Ones"

Song Parodies by Chris O'Brien

Midnight Oil Parody
A parody of "Diana," a corny song from the 'fifties
A parody of "Ghostbusters," by Ray Parker, Jr.
A parody of "Ring of Fire," made famous by the late basso "countralto" Johnny Cash

Chris O'Brien's general Parody page

A dramatization of the traditional tale "The Three Little Pigs"

Here There Be Palindromes and Anagrams!