So far this weekend: I taught some of our volunteers on Saturday about the joy and wonder of handset type. Letterpress is all about controlling chaos, I explained, demonstrating how to keep small pieces of metal from flying into the air.
Tonight I ate dinner alone and came home to read this here. Huzzah!
Raise your hand if this was your wish. I need to know who was responsible.
Yesterday while walking away from the Hudson along Chambers street, a nice young man came up to me and announced that he’d been given a deformed avocado by a pair of Turks and he thought it was a bad omen, or no, not a bad omen, he just didn’t want it, so would I take it? I live in Brooklyn, right? I can plant it in my garden? He thought this was all the deformed avocado would be good for. I told him I unfortunately had no garden to plant it in, and he said, but you can throw it at a taxi? Or a cop car? And I said, well, no, no thank you. And he said, But I want you to take it! Please!
I didn’t take it. I’m difficult like that. But I think he was just kidding.
This is why I like the longer hours of daylight in the summer: so I can wander around the city after work and collect stories like this one.
I almost bought this today, in honor of my brother, who Must Rise Above It, unfortunately. It’s one of Penguin’s Great Ideas series, which all have these fake letterpress covers, which I’m a little mystified by. You can read the essay that gives this book its name here. It’s a fun rant.
Stop in to The Print Center if you’re in Philly:
June 4 – July 30, 2011
Saturday, June 4
Opening Reception: 3:00-5:00pm
Gallery Talk with Juror Sarah Suzuki and Award Ceremony: 3:30pm
85th Annual International Competition: Printmaking
Jurors:
Emi Eu, Director, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
Sarah Suzuki, Associate Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Exhibiting Artists:
Katie Baldwin, Philadelphia, PA
Anders Bergstrom, Brooklyn, NY
Annie Bissett, Northampton, MA
Tonia Bonnell, Denver, CO
Daniel Brewer, Philadelphia, PA
Nicholas Brown, Seattle, WA
Victoria Burge, Philadelphia, PA
Simond Chew, Singapore
Ann Conrad, New Canaan, CT
David Curcio, Watertown, MA
Kip Deeds, Newtown, PA
Sarah Dekker, Philadelphia, PA
Karla Hackenmiller, Athens, OH
Brian Johnson, Austin, TX
Nils Karsten, Brooklyn, NY
Anthony Lazorko, Mesilla, NM
Kakyoung Lee, Brooklyn, NY
Kristine Mallari, Denton, TX
Jiha Moon, Atlanta, GA
Kae Murakami, Kanagawa, Japan
Sarah Nicholls, Brooklyn, NY
Jonathan Nicklow, Evergreen, CO
Matt Phillips, Brooklyn, NY
Jenny Wiener, London, England
Rick Wright, Philadelphia, PA
The Print Center’s 85th Annual International Competition: Printmaking will feature new works by several of the finest contemporary artists from around the world. The Print Center’s Annual International Competition is one of the most prestigious exhibitions of its kind and is the oldest juried exhibition for printmaking and photography in the United States.
This week I plan on eating an entire strawberry rhubarb pie.
Because I can. 
And will be meditating on the various ways to express both positive and negative emotions.
I’m just not comfortable with the awesome radicality of your text collages.
Greetings to the reader who found me by googling “book arts is boring”!
