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Rust never sleeps

back out in the ink-hole otherwise known as the garage, where my old letterpress lives, quietly mocking me every day because I don't print much.

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Just keep pulling the handle, it’ll all be over soon

working on the poem-composed-on-the-spot and printed-in-the-garage project, and so far it's coming along nicely. first two colors are complete, just need to lay down the black poem text now, which will...

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Bad meat in the can

we certainly collect a lot of weird shit, there's no denying that. beer cans, civil war bullets, old radios, HotWheels cars, plates with shit printed on them...it's really a never ending list. but I...

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Z is for zealot

the Z channel was one of the first pay cable stations in the country, airing interesting films around the clock. obscure, weird films, director's cuts, foreign films that no one in america could see. Z...

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San Pedro Anarchy Press, Inc.

welp, the letterpress poem project is finally finished. it kind of dragged out over a long time, but things tend to do that when you are a lazy procrastinator. if you're a patron of the weird arts, you...

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(There’s Gonna Be A) Showdown

Well, I never have been able to say no to a 1970's rawkstar looking for a ride, so we all climbed into the Trooper and headed toward Hollywood proper. After a few wrong turns and near-fatal collisions...

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Shameless self-promotion or a desperate cry for love? You decide.

I paid a lot of money to an orthopedic specialist who did a lot of X-rays and measurements and stretching and prodding. I asked him, "Is it normal for this kind of injury to be painful for this long?"...

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Beware the fury of a patient man

Yes, it's true -- I have finally received the mythical Peace Card set, a letterpress project that started well over three years ago. I sent off my contribution in October of 2002, and as you may have...

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Dumb and dumber

I have in my hot little hands the final proof of the paperback version of Riding Out the Dumb Silence, and I'll be damned if it isn't right and tight and ready to go.

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Oh good lord, it’s a kid’s show

Well, I don't know what to say about Wonder Showzen. I recently saw the first five episodes and it's the funniest thing I've seen in a long, long time.

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Hotter than July

Carol made a detailed post about a Miranda July reading we saw last night, but I thought I would add my two cents, because that's just what I do.

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My baby, she wrote me a letter

Carol is working on a new book, and in an effort to make it as labor-intensive as possible, she is actually typing out the text on each finished page (hundreds of them) by hand on an old Underwood...

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The Holstee Manifesto, or; If you have to tell me how cool you are, you...

Have you seen “The Holstee Manifesto”? Holstee is a company – oh, sorry, I mean a group of “cyclists, illustrators, surfers, builders, yogis, pizza-lovers, climbers, and creators” – who sell $36...

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In your ears

Oh look, he’s back. It’s been a few months, for those of you who didn’t realize I was gone. You’re probably thinking I ran out of things to say, but that’s not it. I have a few posts here that I’ve...

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Polaroid rage

I’ve always loved Polaroid cameras. But apparently Polaroid didn’t love them as much as I did, because they stopped making film in 2008. That was bad news for everyone involved, or at least for me, and...

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