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 morningbefore leaving for job. The novel is going really well....
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Friday, 25 April 2014
Here's a photo I tookof a dandelion. Lookslike a planet.Speaking of which, I was on the Wilson 4th floorand I walked past a bright yellow book by Dave Barry.I stopped and went back and opened it up to a chaptercalled "The Elephant and the Dandelion" (which is afitting title--but it's not the actual one--for the novelI'm writing! Then I took the elevator to the 2nd floorpushing the bookcart. I passed a student who lookedso much like a Martian, I had...
Thursday, 24 April 2014
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Paul Piper and I finally self-publishedour book of poems. We each wrote 20poems of praise. You read my sectionthen flip the book and read Paul's.The beautiful cover is the handpaintedwallpaper by Michael Paulus.We'll be giving a reading from the bookApril 29, 4-5 PM in the Special CollectionsReading Room in Wilson Library, 6th Floor.Everyone's welcome, even time travele...
Monday, 21 April 2014
This weekend I watched SABOTEURthe film that played at the Grand in 1942.I haven't seen this movie for yearsbut 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 cameto Bellingham in July, 1942 when my novelis 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 Orpheu...
Wednesday, 16 April 2014
We went to see the great Wes Anderson's new film THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL this weekend. This is a movie I urgeeveryone to see. He's one of the fewgreat artist directors still around andthis film is another world.While I was in the lobby afterwardsI saw the 1919 photo of people dressedas Chaplin at the Liberty Theatre.Due to an error in the 1942 City Directory,I didn't include this theater in my recentblog entry of Bellingham 1942 theaters!(See the...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Friday, 11 April 2014
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
I just went to the bookstore to buy a third notebookfor my new novel in progress. I tried to use a 10 % offcoupon for Art Supplies, but the cashier didn'tconsider the notebook an art supply, so I was denieda discount. However, upon leaving the bookstore,out on the rainy bricks, I found eleven cen...
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