Stumptown Underground’s 8th Issue “Everybody Do the Robot” is in production, and Book Bot made the cut! Come to the release party Thursday, April 22nd at 8pm at The Fez. Book Bot’s evil cousin, shown here using his books for nefarious purposes, will NOT making be making an appearance. He had to stay home and polish his shoes, because he’s vain like that.
To kick off 2010, my friend Jen Sbragia sent me this super cute card that she made with spraypaint. I tried some spraypainting the other day and it wasn’t that easy. I nearly spraypainted my dog Lucy and definitely got a dry eye out of the ordeal. I think I’ll stick to letterpress.
A while back my friend Jen from Under the Table was promoting an event called “It’s Not You, It’s Me: Stories from the Dark Side of Dating”. She asked some of her food loving friends to contribute their disastrous food-related dates…my submission unfolds as follows in a story from 2001 that I like to call: Turkey: 1, Mormon Boyfriend: 0.
Bringing your new boyfriend home to meet the parents is always a bit stressful…especially when said boyfriend is of the Mormon faith and your parents are of the faith where herpes, safe sex and religion in the Middle East are liberally discussed at dinner (maybe even at breakfast if the coffee is just right). Apart from anticipating the rousing and explicitly vulgar games of charades my family usually plays after dinner, I thought our first meal together would be a fairly stress free affair. Continue reading “Turkey: 1, Mormon Boyfriend: 0”
A book arts center that I am part of is celebrating their one year anniversary this month – you should come check it out!
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Opening Night and Celebration:
Saturday, April 17th
7pm – Midnight
407 SE Ivon Street
Portland, OR 97202
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Join the Em Space Book Arts Center as we celebrate our one-year anniversary and the opening of our second annual member show. The evening’s festivities will include a raffle, silent auction, a printing demonstration on one of our presses, and delicious refreshments. Show runs from April 17th – May 30th. (Fan Em Space on Facebook)
Over the years my Wacom has endured some all terrain handling, and recently the rubber grip area fell off in protest. So I bought a pack of those foam pencil sleeves and upgraded my pen to Delux Wacom Pen Gripper Status. Only 1 and 1/3 pencil sleeves were needed to make this baby look like it was sponsored by a gymnastics team.
Stumptown Underground sent out a call for submissions for their 8th issue, all about robots, and I answered. Book Bot had a few iterations but ended up in this get-up, which I equate in human terms to yellow tube socks and a strategically placed towel. He has his books, what more could he need?
