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Gratitude For Summer Intern Expressed Through Semaphore (Etc.)
I wrapped myself in bacon yesterday for a phone interview withMpls. St. Paul magazine.
I was, I’m sure,delicious.
She wanted to talk aboutthe new bookbut I wanted to talk about the last episode of Long Island Medium.
She said she was too “busy” to talk about what I wanted to talk about.What? Too busy to care??
Moving on:
Zeichen Press found a new intern and she already promised to fold my laundry. I’ll give her this new card as soon as she puts my clothes away:
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This Blog Post Would Be Better If It Was Wrapped In Bacon
I live on a farm so I can swim through my gold coin-filled silos like Uncle Scrooge McDuck. My latest money-making scheme is sure to fill its very own silo: A downloadable collection of our cards turned cartoons!
I’ve requested that royalties be paid in gold doubloons.
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Hey, You Got Your Nature In My Peanut Butter
Clip-clop-clip-clop… I watched her gracefully stroll down 28th Street. She, a 125 pound White Tailed Deer, came towards me on the sidewalk. Her head turned left and right, taking in the scenery like a tourist. I sat as still as a frightened rabbit, hoping she would mistake me for something non-threatening. The air was perfectly calm and the smoke from my cigarette rose straight into the sky. Oh, but she noticed me! We were locked in a staring contest for what felt like forever, and then she bounced away. Faster than I knew a deer could run, she bounded across Hennepin Avenue.
And a bear wandered up to a strip mall last week in Cottage Grove. I felt it should be commemorated.
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Please Like This
Its time to free ourselves from the shackles of this social networking monster.
We are ignorant prisoners, dragging our metal cups across the bars while our wardenstuffs his fat face with naturally-cased wieners.
We are school children, wandering likeWii avatars, waiting for the bell to ring only to be called in to diagram sentences.
We are the Israelitescrushed by our taskmasters, waiting for the supernatural smiting of the Egyptians.
Rise up, people. Stop rowing the slave ship.The candy tastedso goodbefore we got in the van, butnow we must be deprogrammed. Make no mistake about it this is some sort of Stockholm Syndrome.Oh, the candy so sweet, so forbidden, so Turkish-Delighty.
Damn you, Facebook!
Iveflushed my precious time down the toilet. Time Ill never get back. Just like the year I got hooked on Partyof Five those orphaned Salingers led by their gorgeous brother/carpenter, Matthew Fox
Oh, but its donenow. No point in looking back. Friend requests, status updates, profile pictures word combinations unwittinglyadded to the English lexicon!
Ive got a word for you:insidious.
Never has there been such a tool, such a divisive tool.It wears a party hat and mixes the strongest drinks, watching the party-goers behave like jackasses.Why?
Ask son-of-a-dentist/billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg. Mr. Zuckerberg was unavailable for comment duringthe writing of this, and its no wonder. Hes in Palo Alto, counting his drug money. Im booking a flight to Palo Altoand am either going to personally punch him in the face or flatter him until he hires me as his personal secretary.The second scenario is obviously more lucrative. The point is, I will no longer be in this creepy symbioticrelationship.
I will be free. (cue the MLK footage)
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Living Near the Edge-ish
Print shops are full of danger.
Hands mangled, digits lost, clothes torn right off of bodies… (I better fact-check that last one).
Zeichen Press is no exception.
Behold:
Look if you must.Sometimes it is better to face the painful, it desensitizes the mind.That’s good, right?
Because I am so committed to my craft, I (by “I”, I mean “my son”) squished the spider, and finished laying out this card:
Mother’s Day is coming up but you don’t have to get your mom a card.
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Ever-Expanding Empire
Three new rep groups this Spring.
THREE.
These new (lucky) states are: Virginia, West Virginia, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and New Mexico. Each rep gets a box of goodies, packed by Jen:
I bet that’s a lot of work.
I wish I could help but I’m too busy watching Pam watch kittens on televison while I lay in bed.
I DID write/design some new cards I’ve heard that laughing is as good for your body as eating so I plan to airdrop some new cards to the starving people in the world.
I’m sure they’ll be grateful.
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Safe To Molt Now
Has Science gone too far?
Days and nights blurred as the scientist toiled alone well, not exactly alone his companions (experiments) lived in a collection of cages. His laboratory (pronounced:lah-boooar-atory) was nestled between the Russkoe Slovo Bookshop and the hydro-electric plant in Krasnoyarsk.
His mission?
To create super-species. Behold his first success… and his new friend:
Well, congratulations Doctor Hvorostovsky!And now on to my creations:
(not nearly as controversial)
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Such Strong Language
But how can I be tame when I am thrust into such an atmosphere?
I have only one thing to say:
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Purgatorio di Pesce
That sounds delicious!
If Spring would come I wouldn’t be forced to sit here and email sell sheets to hundreds of newspapers around the country.
I won’t complain about the weather because that’s about as interesting as listening to someone list their health problems. But I WILL say this:If I lived in Hawaii, there’d be no Zeichen Press.
See, I can always find the blessing in disguise.
Oh fine, here’s a new card inspired by the endless Winter:
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Always Winter but never Christmas (or Spring)
The woman gazes through her window. A window covered in dog-drool, a window with a view of only one season: Winter. She stares, slack-jawed, at the slow parade of life.
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call the Twilight Zone.
SERIOUSLY?!?
