Mon 8 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

To whomever mailed us tickets to the forthcoming Led Zeppelin show in London on November 26th—and even though there has been no sign of the tickets so we are not really sure they exist, come on, surely someone out there (besides us) thought it would be a great idea to mail us a set of them?—thank you, that’s beyond awesome. And sending air tickets? That’s just too nice. We’ll never be able to thank you enough.

See you there. We’ll be the ones in bell bottoms.

Of course the tickets haven’t arrived yet. They didn’t arrive today because it was a federal holiday. So they’ll probably arrive tomorrow.

Yup. Tomorrow.

Or Wednesday at the latest.

Right?


Mon 8 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

To whomever mailed us tickets to the forthcoming Led Zeppelin show in London on November 26th—and even though there has been no sign of the tickets so we are not really sure they exist, come on, surely someone out there (besides us) thought it would be a great idea to mail us a set of them?—thank you, that’s beyond awesome. And sending air tickets? That’s just too nice. We’ll never be able to thank you enough.

See you there. We’ll be the ones in bell bottoms.

Of course the tickets haven’t arrived yet. They didn’t arrive today because it was a federal holiday. So they’ll probably arrive tomorrow.

Yup. Tomorrow.

Or Wednesday at the latest.

Right?


Sun 7 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Ed Park gets swept away to Aegypt (with more to come next week):

Now that Overlook Press has brought out “Aegypt” as “The Solitudes” (Crowley’s preferred title) and will soon dust off two other works in the “Aegypt” cycle (1994’s “Love & Sleep” and 2000’s “Daemonomania”), and Small Beer Press has issued the Aegyptian finale, “Endless Things” (the subject of next month’s Astral Weeks column), it’s as though a string of curiously beautiful planets has emerged from a long, cold shadow. As if “Aegypt” had been waiting all along for me to discover it.

The new edition of The Solitudes is out this week, Love & Sleep is due in January, and Daemonomania is due out in spring. Endless Things is out out out.


Sun 7 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Ed Park gets swept away to Aegypt (with more to come next week):

Now that Overlook Press has brought out “Aegypt” as “The Solitudes” (Crowley’s preferred title) and will soon dust off two other works in the “Aegypt” cycle (1994’s “Love & Sleep” and 2000’s “Daemonomania”), and Small Beer Press has issued the Aegyptian finale, “Endless Things” (the subject of next month’s Astral Weeks column), it’s as though a string of curiously beautiful planets has emerged from a long, cold shadow. As if “Aegypt” had been waiting all along for me to discover it.

The new edition of The Solitudes is out this week, Love & Sleep is due in January, and Daemonomania is due out in spring. Endless Things is out out out.


Fri 5 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

From Critical Mass:

Yesterday, former NBCC finalist Edwidge Danticat testified before the U.S. Congress’ Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law. It is our priviledge to publish the text of this powerful testimony — which is the basis of her new memoir, “Brother, I’m Dying” – here.

Danticat’s testimony.


Fri 5 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

From Critical Mass:

Yesterday, former NBCC finalist Edwidge Danticat testified before the U.S. Congress’ Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law. It is our priviledge to publish the text of this powerful testimony — which is the basis of her new memoir, “Brother, I’m Dying” – here.

Danticat’s testimony.


Fri 5 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Thank you Yoana — our first LCRW subscriber from Bulgaria!

Maybe she is a reader of the Del Rey Internet Newsletter which just posted the Preface from The Best of LCRW. Or maybe she is a reader of the Romantic Times and saw this review. They know we are old (old!) romantics at heart.

Found a great review we had missed (how!?) by Adrienne Martini in the Baltimore City Paper—Baltimore, city of the awesome Atomic Books. Plus, look at that great illo by Deanna Staffo—it’s definitely worth putting a book out to get illustrations like that. Now, more! Can’t wait to see how the NYT book review illustrates it.

Cough.

The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Cover THE BEST OF LADY CHURCHILL’S ROSEBUD WRISTLET
by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, eds.RT Rating: ½

Fri 5 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Thank you Yoana — our first LCRW subscriber from Bulgaria!

Maybe she is a reader of the Del Rey Internet Newsletter which just posted the Preface from The Best of LCRW. Or maybe she is a reader of the Romantic Times and saw this review. They know we are old (old!) romantics at heart.

Found a great review we had missed (how!?) by Adrienne Martini in the Baltimore City Paper—Baltimore, city of the awesome Atomic Books. Plus, look at that great illo by Deanna Staffo—it’s definitely worth putting a book out to get illustrations like that. Now, more! Can’t wait to see how the NYT book review illustrates it.

Cough.

The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Cover THE BEST OF LADY CHURCHILL’S ROSEBUD WRISTLET
by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, eds.RT Rating: ½

Wed 3 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Kelly’s story “Magic for Beginners” is a nominee for the Le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. (Wow!) (via)

And: Kelly has a new story, “Light'” in the new issue of Tin House. She is reading with Lucy Corin, Shelley Jackson, and Samantha Hunt at 7 PM on Friday in New York City.

It looks like an amazing issue, check out the ToC. Also, you can read the whole of “Light.” (Thatlink will change in a couple of months.)


Wed 3 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Kelly’s story “Magic for Beginners” is a nominee for the Le Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. (Wow!) (via)

And: Kelly has a new story, “Light'” in the new issue of Tin House. She is reading with Lucy Corin, Shelley Jackson, and Samantha Hunt at 7 PM on Friday in New York City.

It looks like an amazing issue, check out the ToC. Also, you can read the whole of “Light.” (Thatlink will change in a couple of months.)


Wed 3 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

10/30: Mark the day on your calendars for an Interfictions event at McNally Robinson in NYC with Delia Sherman, Matt Cheney, K. Tempest Bradford, and Veronica Schanoes.

There’s a great review by Laird Hunt of Interfictions in the new issue of Rain Taxi, which makes for fascinating reading, more so than quoting. Besides, Rain Taxi is well worth seeking out. Most indie book stores carry it (it’s free) or you can subscribe. Seek!

And: There’s also a review of Endless Things in Rain Taxi. Since Aegypt the 1st (aka The Solitudes) is coming out this week in paperback—kicking off the whole series being reprinted in pb—expect a number of high profile reviews of the whole series.

John Joseph Adams digs for the truth behind The Best of LCRW.


Wed 3 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

10/30: Mark the day on your calendars for an Interfictions event at McNally Robinson in NYC with Delia Sherman, Matt Cheney, K. Tempest Bradford, and Veronica Schanoes.

There’s a great review by Laird Hunt of Interfictions in the new issue of Rain Taxi, which makes for fascinating reading, more so than quoting. Besides, Rain Taxi is well worth seeking out. Most indie book stores carry it (it’s free) or you can subscribe. Seek!

And: There’s also a review of Endless Things in Rain Taxi. Since Aegypt the 1st (aka The Solitudes) is coming out this week in paperback—kicking off the whole series being reprinted in pb—expect a number of high profile reviews of the whole series.

John Joseph Adams digs for the truth behind The Best of LCRW.


Blog Like Me 6: One For Ned Ludd

Tue 2 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Howard Waldrop

Skeptical HowardEverybody knows, I hope, these blogs are written in longhand, typed up on the last Adler manual portable typewriter ever produced (1975) and sent via US Mail to your capable Editors.

Then they do whatever it is they do, some arcane magic, and it turns into photons delivered to your house.

People (especially publishers) keep asking me when I’m going to get a word processor or computer or whatever.

“I produce words on paper,” I say. “ You print words on paper. How it gets from one to the other is not my bowl of rice.”

A tres charmant blend of practicality and Luddism, I think.

Norman Mailer ( who said a lot of crap, some of it very true indeed) wrote once years ago: “ You change, or you pay more for staying the same.”

Boy, did he have that right.

Just before they stopped making typewriters ( a fine tradition for @ 110 years) they got it exactly right. They began making true Universal typewriter ribbon spools—ones that fit almost every typewriter made after about 1920. They had two sets of perforations in the tops and bottoms of the spools, one side or the other fit the projections in the spool-carriers of almost anything. The ribbons were all-black cotton, and when you’d use them so long the ink was fading, you turned the spools upside down and used the part of the ribbon that had only been used when you pushed the “shift” key heretofore. If that didn’t work, you unspooled the ribbon, turned it over and respooled it to get at the new ink. With an all-black ribbon you got twice the usefulness.

They cost @ $2.89 in 1977 money.

But wait—when typewriters started getting scarce, the namby-pambies who didn’t want to ever see what was in a typewriter, demanded of the office suppliers they wanted Universal correcting typewriter ribbons; so for a while all you could find were half-white/ half-black ribbons that fit all typewriters. ( I cried out “ That’s what White-Out was made for! You effete snobs!”—but no one listened.) Or, horror of horrors, half black/half red, useless for a writer.

It was bad enough getting a half-correcting/ half-black ribbon when they first came out ( you were getting half the useful ribbon for a higher price, than formerly when they were still made of cotton. About ten years ago they changed them to nylon.)

That would have been a semi-viable alternative EXCEPT the ribbons tended to split and separate, jamming up in the ribbon guides sometimes, but most often being torn apart and jamming right in the business part where the keys strike.

Enough, enough I said. I went looking for something I could use.

I had spare sets of Universal spools—when even the second side of the ribbon became faint, I’d disconnect one of the spools, put the spool with the ribbon on it back in the box and writer –Used,  6/99 –or whatever on it, so I’d know how old it was.

(Many a time, finishing some mss on a deadline, I’d have to dig an old used ribbon out and finish the last three pages or so of a story—it was sharper and clearer than the ribbon that had just died on me while pounding out “ The Wolf-Man of Alcatraz” or “ The Bravest Girl I Ever Knew”—in fact, nearly all the xeroxes of my mss lately are sharper and clearer than the original typescripts.)

I found that OkiData, who still made ribbons for its printing calculators, used an all-black cotton ribbon for them, and that Carters—who were the people who had invented the Universal ribbon spools, were still making the replacements.

You guessed it: I bought the OkiData 62 Carters spools, unwound them and respooled them on the universal spools, a messy process, but one that left me with a ribbon that could be used twice, like in the old days. They cost, in the 90s, about $4.00 a ribbon, and they were about 15’ shorter than the typewriter ribbons had been.

Now, once again, there are so many Luddites still with typewriters, their voices have been heard, Carters is now making once again an all-black ribbon ( nylon now) on a Universal spool ( the kind men like!) They cost $5.95 @, or more than double what you paid in the 1970s for a better product.

But it is a lot easier than unspooling calculator ribbons on a cold winter’s night, and having to wash your hands in Go-Jo five times afterwards….

Next time : Pens!

—Howard Waldrop


Mon 1 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Sign your name, maybe help the Burmese? Who knows. Worth a try. Sign, forward, etc.

—– Original Message —–
From: Ricken Patel –  <mailto:avaaz@avaaz.org> Avaaz.org
To: sue.okell@dsl.pipex.com
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: Burma: Stop the Bloodshed

Dear friends,

The worst is happening – over the last few days, Burma’s generals have unleashed terror on the peaceful monks and protesters: shooting and beating many to death, and taking others away to torture chambers where at this moment they must be enduring the unbearable.

We can stop this horror. Burma’s powerful sponsor China can halt the killing, if it believes that its international reputation and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing depend on it. To convince the Chinese government, Avaaz is launching a major global and Asian ad campaign on Tuesday that will deliver our message and the number of signers. Our petition has exploded to over 200,000 signers in just 72 hours, but we need 1 million voices to be the global roar that will get China’s attention. If every one of us forwards this email to just 20 friends, we’ll reach our target in the next 72 hours. Please sign the petition at the link below -if you haven’t already- and forward this email to everyone you care about:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/p.php

The petition will also be delivered to the UN Secretary-General, and we will broadcast the news of our effort over radio to Burma’s people, telling them not to lose hope, that the world is with them.

The Burmese people are showing incredible courage in the face of horror. The fate of many brave and good people is in our hands, we must help them – and we have hours, not days, to do it. Please sign the petition and forward this email to at least 20 friends right now.

With hope and determination,

Ricken, Paul, Pascal, Graziela, Galit, Ben, Milena and the whole Avaaz Team

PS: if you would like to join in the massive wave of demonstrations happening around the world at Burmese and Chinese embassies, scroll down our petition page for details of times and events.

_____________________________________
Please add avaaz@avaaz.org to your address book to make sure you keep receiving emails from Avaaz. Avaaz.org is staffed by a global team of campaigners operating on 3 continents. We have administrative offices in London, New York, and Rio de Janeiro. Please direct mail to our NY office at 260 Fifth Avenue, 9th floor, New York, NY 10001 U.S.A.


Mon 1 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Sign your name, maybe help the Burmese? Who knows. Worth a try. Sign, forward, etc.

—– Original Message —–
From: Ricken Patel –  <mailto:avaaz@avaaz.org> Avaaz.org
To: sue.okell@dsl.pipex.com
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: Burma: Stop the Bloodshed

Dear friends,

The worst is happening – over the last few days, Burma’s generals have unleashed terror on the peaceful monks and protesters: shooting and beating many to death, and taking others away to torture chambers where at this moment they must be enduring the unbearable.

We can stop this horror. Burma’s powerful sponsor China can halt the killing, if it believes that its international reputation and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing depend on it. To convince the Chinese government, Avaaz is launching a major global and Asian ad campaign on Tuesday that will deliver our message and the number of signers. Our petition has exploded to over 200,000 signers in just 72 hours, but we need 1 million voices to be the global roar that will get China’s attention. If every one of us forwards this email to just 20 friends, we’ll reach our target in the next 72 hours. Please sign the petition at the link below -if you haven’t already- and forward this email to everyone you care about:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/p.php

The petition will also be delivered to the UN Secretary-General, and we will broadcast the news of our effort over radio to Burma’s people, telling them not to lose hope, that the world is with them.

The Burmese people are showing incredible courage in the face of horror. The fate of many brave and good people is in our hands, we must help them – and we have hours, not days, to do it. Please sign the petition and forward this email to at least 20 friends right now.

With hope and determination,

Ricken, Paul, Pascal, Graziela, Galit, Ben, Milena and the whole Avaaz Team

PS: if you would like to join in the massive wave of demonstrations happening around the world at Burmese and Chinese embassies, scroll down our petition page for details of times and events.

_____________________________________
Please add avaaz@avaaz.org to your address book to make sure you keep receiving emails from Avaaz. Avaaz.org is staffed by a global team of campaigners operating on 3 continents. We have administrative offices in London, New York, and Rio de Janeiro. Please direct mail to our NY office at 260 Fifth Avenue, 9th floor, New York, NY 10001 U.S.A.


Mon 1 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

This is awesome.  Go get a free, cheap, expensive (you choose) Radiohead album. (Album because it’s not really a CD or record—unless you want to pop for the $80 edition).

Meanwhile, Apple keep locking away their phone and mp3 players (and no doubt every other device they have planned) while Nokia are pulling a Radiohead and saying Go ahead, do what you want. Really hope Nokia do well with this because for all their great design and easy use (this post being written on a Mac), Apple’s corporate ethos is crap. Sorry, Apple, we have many of your products, but the love, well…. Defending your bad behavior? It’s getting old and so are we. Who has time for crap relationships? So maybe we will buy the machines, but sign out of the religion.

On Wednesday, go listen to Maureen talk about Alt. Reality Games.

A nice Best of LCRW review at SF Site.

The stories Link and Grant have selected over the past ten years are deserving of a broader readership and, with The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet now in bookstores, they will, it is hoped, achieve that readership.

Interfictions podcasts.


Mon 1 Oct 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

This is awesome.  Go get a free, cheap, expensive (you choose) Radiohead album. (Album because it’s not really a CD or record—unless you want to pop for the $80 edition).

Meanwhile, Apple keep locking away their phone and mp3 players (and no doubt every other device they have planned) while Nokia are pulling a Radiohead and saying Go ahead, do what you want. Really hope Nokia do well with this because for all their great design and easy use (this post being written on a Mac), Apple’s corporate ethos is crap. Sorry, Apple, we have many of your products, but the love, well…. Defending your bad behavior? It’s getting old and so are we. Who has time for crap relationships? So maybe we will buy the machines, but sign out of the religion.

On Wednesday, go listen to Maureen talk about Alt. Reality Games.

A nice Best of LCRW review at SF Site.

The stories Link and Grant have selected over the past ten years are deserving of a broader readership and, with The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet now in bookstores, they will, it is hoped, achieve that readership.

Interfictions podcasts.


Read a Karen Joy Fowler story

Fri 28 Sep 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Just posted “The Last Worders” by Karen Joy Fowler from LCRW 20. Enjoy!

Also: newsletter actually went out.

And: a page for The Best of LCRW.


Das Newsletter

Fri 28 Sep 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

A newsletter went out.

1) Preface
2) Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
3) Introduction (B Dan Chaon!)
4) Stuff that’s on the inside
5) The Ask
6) The Tell
7) The Noun

+ ……………………………………….. +


Thu 27 Sep 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Futurama Wall Calendar CoverWe’ve been picking up the Futurama calendars for a couple of years (they match the Greenpeace ones surprisingly well) and really enjoying the notes (such as the one on April 3, 2008: “Read Jeffrey Ford’s The Empire of Ice Cream“).

We kept the 2007 edition open at the centerfold (huge bees!) and missed looking at the actual months until yesterday when we picked up the 2008 edition and found that one of Kelly’s hopes and dreams had been fulfilled and she hadn’t known it. Her birthday is listed in the calendar. Wow, is all that can be said.


Thu 27 Sep 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

Futurama Wall Calendar CoverWe’ve been picking up the Futurama calendars for a couple of years (they match the Greenpeace ones surprisingly well) and really enjoying the notes (such as the one on April 3, 2008: “Read Jeffrey Ford’s The Empire of Ice Cream“).

We kept the 2007 edition open at the centerfold (huge bees!) and missed looking at the actual months until yesterday when we picked up the 2008 edition and found that one of Kelly’s hopes and dreams had been fulfilled and she hadn’t known it. Her birthday is listed in the calendar. Wow, is all that can be said.


SFWA?

Wed 26 Sep 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

It’s time (well, past time, but who, besides the late-fees administrator, is counting?) to renew SFWA membership. We are wondering about skipping membership and just donating the money straight to the Medical Fund? Any thoughts?


Seattle power couple interview

Wed 26 Sep 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

2 minutes each of Eileen Gunn and John D. Berry in Yokohama, Japan.

Eileen’s collection, Stable Strategies and Others, had just been awarded the Sense of Gender Award (1, 2) and John’s Dot-Font books had just come out (Talking about Typography & Talking about Matthew Carter):


BLOG LIKE ME # 5: Christmas EVERY Thursday

Tue 25 Sep 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Howard Waldrop

I once used to live in Austin, City Of. Now I live in Austin, City Of, but in the part of Williamson County that sticks a little finger of tax-grab down into Austin. ( The rest of Austin is in Travis County, the way God ((and Democrats)) intended it.)

What this has to do with anything: Twice a year, usually April and October, but it rotated, Services sent out an announcement to you U.S. Mail: the week of, say, April 13th will be Big Trash Day in your neighborhood. In other words, pretty much anything you could get to the curb, they had to take. There were rules; no broken glass, no nails in lumber, no demolition trash; don’t put anything near the mailbox or over the water meter; separate wood, metal and rubber—up to eight car tires at a time. Don’t put anything against a fence, blocking an alley, or under a low tree ( they have a flatbed truck with a big grappling device to pick stuff up on a long arm and put it in a regular garbage truck and they need, in the words of Larry Storch in The Great Race, “ some fightin’ room.” )

They also had Big Brush Day, another twice-a-year—yard waste; all the limbs that broke off during the last windstorm etc.—but that doesn’t concern us here.)

Through the years, on Big Trash Day, or the weekend leading up to when it starts on a Monday—I’d gotten several swell bookcases, stands, chairs, small tables etc. Absolutely nothing wrong with them except someone got tired of them, or they clashed with the new couch or something.
In South Austin ( and, I’m told, in Japan where they have Big Trash Day once a month, and the places are so small that if you buy anything new, you have to throw something out ) scrounging and scavenging is de rigeur. In the run-up to B.T.D., there anything swell put out at twilight is gone before dawn. Less nice but still servicable stuff may last right up until the grapple-truck turns the corner, but probably not. Every pile tends to get smaller; my guess is in S. Austin, the solid-waste people end up with about 60% of what was put out for them…

The last month I lived in South Austin, Doug Potter, who knew I was looking for a TV stand, called me—it was B.T.D. coming up in the next neighborhood and on his jog he’d seen a likely-looking pile with part of an entertainment center sticking out of the middle of it. I drove over in my ‘85 Toyota Tercel Wagon full of tools.

Skeptical HowardWell, that pile turned out to be a dud ( as many do) but the next one over was a goldmine—there was a pie-shaped formica-topped built-in corner desk that had once been part of a run of built-in cabinets. ( I may have mentioned this in reference to the tractor-desk I’d made, last time.) I could tell it had been custom-built judging from the style, in the 1950s, because the formica had been put on after the top had been nailed into the run of cabinets—over the nails.

Long story short: it didn’t work out as a desk ( balance problems after I put legs on it) but it’s now the yellow, half-moon shaped headboard of the bed in the new house, and a damned fine one, if I do say so myself.

This is high-tone suburban North Austin. Scrounging is not the Life Style. The great new is , every trash day is Big Trash Day. We’re on Round Rock ( the town that killed Sam Bass ) Refuse, and anything you get to the curb, they take. Every Thursday! Last week, at dawn, I went two blocks up the street, afoot, to see what was out. There, in three pieces, leaning up against a garbage can, was an, at least, 100 year old solid oak desk. I picked up the 3 ½’ x 5’ top (covered with hard rubber of the kind they haven’t used on desks in at least 80 years). It weighed around 150 lbs. I put it on my foot and pissanted it 2 blocks back to the house. I took the car back. The two side pedestals, filled with drawers, were too big to fit in the wagon without reconfiguring it completely, and the garbage truck was coming. So I took all seven 18” x 36” drawers, including one double-file drawer ( all solid oak) which I’m using now for files. The top and the other 6 drawers are out in the garage, awaiting my liesure attention.

Today, just before the first rain squalls from Tropical Depression Erin hit, I drove around the neighborhoods. A block down, in perfect condition, was a 40-yr–old Disney Hunny Jar Winnie-The-Pooh lamp with an illustrated E.H. Shepard shade, sitting on top of a garbage can. I brought it home, tried it out ( it needed a new $2.00 pushbutton socket, which had been replaced once already, as the socket didn’t have an Underwriter’s knot on the wiring) and found the sticker from the high-tone store it was bought at—$78.99.

I advise you all to check whether Your Town, USA has a Big Trash Day, or if it’s like Round Rock Refuse, every week.

Just because it’s out with the rest of the garbage doesn’t mean it’s trash….

—Howard Waldrop


Thu 20 Sep 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Best of LCRW reading at KGB: packed, great readers, martinis served (thanks to a reading of Mr. Butner’s “How to Make a Martini” and a free LCRW with every martini!). Ok.

Rest day.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao CoverNow go ye and order a copy The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and get with the new century.

Who is it for? Everyone.

Only read postmodern fictions? It’s pour vous.

Straight up sci-fi hardcase? It’s all you.

John Clute? It’s you, too.

Want a dark comedy? How about a modern immigrant tale? Like graphic novels?  It’s for you!

Understand? This one’s so rich it’s for everyone.


Thu 20 Sep 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Best of LCRW reading at KGB: packed, great readers, martinis served (thanks to a reading of Mr. Butner’s “How to Make a Martini” and a free LCRW with every martini!). Ok.

Rest day.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao CoverNow go ye and order a copy The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and get with the new century.

Who is it for? Everyone.

Only read postmodern fictions? It’s pour vous.

Straight up sci-fi hardcase? It’s all you.

John Clute? It’s you, too.

Want a dark comedy? How about a modern immigrant tale? Like graphic novels?  It’s for you!

Understand? This one’s so rich it’s for everyone.


Moved!

Tue 18 Sep 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Read, read, read.We have moved! We’re now in a lovely space in the Paragon Arts building (website may not be current) in arts-crazy Easthampton. Here are some pics. Going to have to sell some books, hmm?

Lucky we just sold a ton at the Brooklyn Book Fest, so that’s next month paid for. Ha ha.

The new address (see below) has been slowly rolling out across the website and into the world — although we expect that will take a while. The old address will still be good for a while, so no worries there.

The new address:

Small Beer Press
150 Pleasant St., #306
Easthampton, MA 01027


Tue 18 Sep 2007 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

Where did Howard’s blog go?

While we were in Japan Howard mailed us some more “posts”. So now they go off to our wonderful volunteer and next week or so they will start again with “Christmas Every Thursday.”


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