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Japan Cottage Musings

Haikus, Garden + Baby News / Japan Cottage Musings

Video April 9, 2020 daveo Leave a comment

Wearing a smoking jacket at Tsuchida Cottage, Dave riffs on recent activities including: planting vegetable garden, playing piano, buying baby clothes, and sort-ganizing archives including digging out loads of books. As such, shows books by Douglas Coupland, Nick Bantock, Gary Snyder, Ethan Hubbard, and reads from Jack Kerouac’s American Haikus, plus riffs about Tintin, fire lookouts and mailing postcards. 

Consider Perusing:

  • Gallery Exhibit: Douglas Coupland mixed-media at VAG, vol. 2 (collections)
  • Escalante Flashflood – From Community College to Canyon Bottom (draft)
  • Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything | VAG
  • “Brushstrokes and Backpacks” – a brief autobiography
  • Exhibit: Douglas Coupland mixed-media at VAG, vol. 5 (cityscapes)
  • “Akiya” abandoned, cheap/free* houses in Japan / annotations, resources, riffs, musings, stories
  • “On The Road” to Kobe for Kerouac – scroll exhibit and story workshop
  •  “Hemp culture in Japan” in Journal of Industrial Hemp Association, 1997
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