How to remain porous and ready for inspiration as an artist while not growing cynical and hardened in a topsy-turvy world? Sure go to libraries, be a good dad to a curious kid who is learning about Neanderthals… and talk about these things on a dodgy mic beside a crackly fire with a few chords on a ukulele
Libraries for Sensitive Neanderthals ~ Stellate Ganglion Blocks and History of Nothing Read Post »
January 22: Arbitrary check-in from Qinono RSK resto next to prefectural museum of art 42 cards, packets, and letters sent
Arbitrary postal and life task check in Read Post »
tidying up the caboose desk with Ichiro’s zines, stacks of postcards – from misprints to treasures from many pals and countries…
Ichi Zines, Postcards, Files and Folios (in the caboose) Read Post »
Remember when we all wore disguises? and made sourdough starters, send letters, did needlepoint, crafted casseroles, laid out charcuterie plates,
“I miss your sourdough starter” {spoken song} Read Post »
This is me, tidying up sacks of stuff accumulated the last few months which didn’t get sorted because of a
Kura, Tidyin’ up – sortganzing with ephemera Read Post »
Pleasant chitchat whilst going through a big stack of mail and talking about friendship, back-stories, geography, creativity, sortganizing – nothing fancy
Digging into a Santa size stack of Correspondence Read Post »
Found in the archive: a letter written, apparently to a friend from teenage days, travelling on Pacific Blue Drum Corps
Up to Here: “a life catch-up” letter to a teenage pal Read Post »
* Stonehenge sketchpad which appears large but is actually small, red cover, watercolor paper * Air mail stickers, some small,
Items: specs, sharps, notes, seals, pins, ashes, flag etc Read Post »
Rare hang out out in the kura barn (while wife’s band rehearses inside so a bit too much commotion for me) So instead, I’m putting away books and *trying to* tidy up stacks of scrapbook materials, ephemera, maps, passports, other treats / so much goodness! But first need space on the Workbench
What follows are artifacts, mildly documented, in situ, with brief annotations:
Items in kura, inventoried: (scrapbook poetry, letters, wallets, records, map) Read Post »
I mean, I know no one is really worrying about this or hardly paying attention, but I have a strange
The postal services of the world create a magnificent neural network of sorts – dispatches leaping across borders, bypassing squabbles
Postal services as neural networks #Ukraine Read Post »
In November 2022 I was very pleased to be a very lousy guest on the very gracious Jason Emde’s podcast
Lit-ish Artifacts: from Writers Read Their early Sht pod w/ J. Emde Read Post »
Some countries still don’t have air mail connections with Japan at this time, so, sending a letter envelope by surface
Post’d: surface transport (distant lands) Read Post »
Three views of mailing a letter (one for business, one for pleasure) and the broken vending machine on the walk
Post’d: 3 views (pleasure & bizness) Read Post »
“Good news” is over 300 pieces of postal mail dispatched the last 4-5 weeks. Mostly postcards but also bunch of
Post’d: new year mail-outs / postal odds and ends (& what happens next) Read Post »
Hangout in the Kura barn while i light sage, spin Ornette Coleman and fill up an accordion-style scrapbook with postcards
Accordion-style Postcard Scrapbook hangout (with jazz and sage) Read Post »
