Paul Piper and I read from our PRAISES book yesterday.
I actually sold a copy of SAINT LEMONADE, thanks Carol!
Wrote some more in the new novel this early morning
before leaving for job. The novel is going really well.
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Friday, 25 April 2014
Here's a photo I took
of a dandelion. Looks
like a planet.
Speaking of which, I was on the Wilson 4th floor
and I walked past a bright yellow book by Dave Barry.
I stopped and went back and opened it up to a chapter
called "The Elephant and the Dandelion" (which is a
fitting title--but it's not the actual one--for the novel
I'm writing! Then I took the elevator to the 2nd floor
pushing the bookcart. I passed a student who looked
so much like a Martian, I had to carefully stop and
back the truck up to sneak a peek at him and
suddenly all the library books fell off my cart!
Thursday, 24 April 2014
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Paul Piper and I finally self-published
our book of poems. We each wrote 20
poems of praise. You read my section
then flip the book and read Paul's.
The beautiful cover is the handpainted
wallpaper by Michael Paulus.
We'll be giving a reading from the book
April 29, 4-5 PM in the Special Collections
Reading Room in Wilson Library, 6th Floor.
Everyone's welcome, even time travelers.
Monday, 21 April 2014
My friend Michael Paulus
who created covers for my books,
THE WONDERFUL STUPID MAN
and SAINT LEMONADE
has made this amazing short movie:
http://michaelpaulus.com/artwork/3492117_Wind_Farm.html
This weekend I watched SABOTEUR
the film that played at the Grand in 1942.
I haven't seen this movie for years
but I remembered there was a circus in it.
The circus arrives across the desert:
And lo and behold, it's the same circus,
The Russell Brothers Circus, that came
to Bellingham in July, 1942 when my novel
is taking place!
Friday, 18 April 2014
Thursday, 17 April 2014
I got an email from friend Rob in Morocco.
I asked him to watch for anything to do with elephants.
He reported back that elephants are rare, it's "a little more
camel oriented here but attached is a picture from an old
Roman site we visited yesterday--Voulubilis. The end of
the Roman road in North Africa. Interesting ruins, with
many intact mosaic murals...the elephant was from
a floor mural about Orpheus."
Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Walking about downtown, I always admire
this painting up high on the corner of 1223
Commercial Street. It looks like an old 1940s
coffee mug. Was there once an amazing diner here?
After a little research on this site, here’s what
I discovered: Throughout the 1930s—1940s
this was the Clark Electric Company. By 1954,
it was home of Blackburn Office Equipment.
It became vacant, from 1978 from 1980 when
it became Café Rosa. In 1985, it was vacant again
until 1991 when it became an architect’s office.
Currently it’s an attorney office. Maybe the sign
was directing coffee lovers further south? Like Brazil.
We went to see the great Wes Anderson's
new film THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
this weekend. This is a movie I urge
everyone to see. He's one of the few
great artist directors still around and
this film is another world.
While I was in the lobby afterwards
I saw the 1919 photo of people dressed
as Chaplin at the Liberty Theatre.
Due to an error in the 1942 City Directory,
I didn't include this theater in my recent
blog entry of Bellingham 1942 theaters!
(See the photos two entries prior to this one.)
I promise to get to that soon.
new film THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
this weekend. This is a movie I urge
everyone to see. He's one of the few
great artist directors still around and
this film is another world.
While I was in the lobby afterwards
I saw the 1919 photo of people dressed
as Chaplin at the Liberty Theatre.
Due to an error in the 1942 City Directory,
I didn't include this theater in my recent
blog entry of Bellingham 1942 theaters!
(See the photos two entries prior to this one.)
I promise to get to that soon.
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Friday, 11 April 2014
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
My friend Rob Millis, musican, artist,
jokester and gad-about-town is currently
in Morocco, where he took this amazing
photo. I can't get enough of it! This should
be on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
For more of Mr. Millis' inspiring photos see:
http://indiantalkingmachine.tumblr.com/
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
I just went to the bookstore to buy a third notebook
for my new novel in progress. I tried to use a 10 % off
coupon for Art Supplies, but the cashier didn't
consider the notebook an art supply, so I was denied
a discount. However, upon leaving the bookstore,
out on the rainy bricks, I found eleven cents!
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