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Thursday, August 24, 2006

 

You know you've had a great day when it's nine p.m. and you're sitting at your desk at work, pouring airplane-size bottles of Bacardi Gold into a mostly drunk 20-oz bottle of flat Coke.

In other words: ugh.

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Jordan's latest bit of pastry blogging, featuring a lattice-work pie, fills me with much less existential dread than last week's frightening apple charlotte. Perhaps we can work our way to an innocuous bran muffin or streudel over the coming weeks. A girl can hope.

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

 

Tinysides 7 and 10 are sold out. 6, 8 and 9 are available individually or as a set o' three.

Ridiculously enough, Tinysides 11-15 are done. I'm going to hold off on releasing them awhile. I'm afraid I'm saturating the market for wee little books, and exhausting my customer base's demand. A once-a-month program might be better.

I've started the cover designs for 16-20. Funnily enough, 11-15 are all by men, and the covers are mostly very feminine -- lots of flowers and soft colors. 16-20 are all by women, and thus far my cover designs are full of bold colors and suits of armor.

Seven poems into "Postcards from Planet Death" and three for another genre series, "A Captivity Narrative." I make my own self laugh, at least.

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Six poems into "Postcards from Planet Death." I'm forcing myself to keep to five lines, which means wiseacre-y "archy and mehitabel" type stuff. I would be more haiku-like, but it's hard to talk about nature on Planet Death.

I think I will try some more five-line "genre" poems after this. I will probably pick up "Travels with the Sea Monster," although there really isn't a genre of fiction/art about travelling with sea monsters, unlike, say, space adventure.

Many BookThug titles arrived yesterday, and I appreciate their clean and simple design. Also I got a stuffed viking from elsewhere in Canada. He has a tiny rucksack for pillaging with.

I was thinking I would pull out my tomato plants this weekend, as they produce only infrequently, and then only for the delight of the squirrels, but one of them is trying to put out a last, solo tomato, far up and along on a slender stalk where it stands some chance of not being devoured by rodents. I will monitor its progress.

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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

 

I am doing many readings this fall. You will all be sick of me. But I'll be sick of me, too. We'll be sick together.

I will post more about dates and such as they approach.

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I'm doing a new ten-poem project to be entitled "Postcards from Planet Death."

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Actually went out after work yesterday, and pretended to be a real person, eating dinner out and nosing myself into shops. Picked up a book by Eduardo Galeano, who writes these odd little parable/allegory/anecdote things, somewhat heavy-handed in English, a language that always likes a little flourish at the end to turn away from whatever emotions have built up in the text, but I think you can get away with almost anything in Spanish, which is the language in which I first encountered him.

Spanish train stations used to sell these tiny books, about two-and-a-half inches square, that came at 100 pesetas a pop -- about a dollar or so. They were all very beautifully designed, and I picked up a few on a trip from Valencia to Sagunto, where I also got to listen to a man speaking Russian to his child who answered back in Catalan.

I wish we had something like these books (I'm a fan of the tiny as always). We have the Dover Thrift editions, but they're not really pocket-sized and not very pretty. I think I'm going to hunt down some of my "Alianza Cien" books -- which included a collection of Galeano's odd fragments, and scan them, so you can take a peek. They were a good example of how something beautiful can induce you to enjoy something you otherwise wouldn't have picked up.

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Monday, August 21, 2006

 

Yo. Full sets o' tinysides 6-10 are sold out. Get the remaining four over at Big Game.

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Sunday, August 20, 2006

 

Happy Birthday to my Mom! Happy mom!

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