Chenelle and I are producing a series of one acts by women. It’s all new work so please! Submit your stuff! And please! Repost on your Internet haunts! The deadline is December 15th. Our Facebook group has all the details.

Sent off the prints for the Greenville Presents show. Very pleased with how they turned out. I do best with juggling many projects, my attention span is terribly short, but invariably that means some never get finished and some slip through my fingers. The ones that slip away cause me a great deal of anxiety. I like faithfulness, I like knowing deeply. Even so, I am learning that not everything ought to be completed. It’s alright to let some things go. But it’s the discernment I am having difficulty with. I’m never sure when to be faithful and see something through and when to release. Maybe that’s a knowledge that comes with age and experience. For now my filter seems to function by piling it all on thick, seeing what has the strongest hold. I’m busy, and I like that.

I’ve traded in my usual writing music, Cat Power, Animal Collective, Nick Drake, ETC, for Wu-Tang Clan, Lil’ Wayne and that Matt and Lil’ Kim mash up, Double Ice Creams Tonight. I’m producing some seriously quality writing right now.  Coincidence? I think not.

Let’s start at the beginning with these posts. Before I left for Nashville, I did some printing at my home studio, the San Francisco Center for the Book.

My friend Colleen’s 2009 calendar was up in the SFCB calendar show.

Last year Colleen completed a gorgeous book done completely in graphite. She has an interview in the upcoming issue of Ampersand regarding the work. You can see much better photographs of Elemental Edifice on her website, Colleen Stockmann & Analogue Anatomy Press.

I neglected to write down the name of this artist. One of my favorite pieces in the show.

Self printing on a Vandercook SP-15, wearing what Les called “The California printer’s uniform.” Black shirt, blue jeans.

. We finished designing the poster we are working on together. We’re all pleased with how it’s turning out. The poster is a three color job and I’m looking forward to the challenge; printing multiple colors has always been daunting to me.

. Almost all of Hatch’s type came from Hamilton Wood Type. I would love to visit there.

. Today we were hand inking a ton of posters. It was a blast, the day absolutely flew by. Color color color color texture texture texture texture.

. B also taught me how to use a Table Top Pilot C&P today, a skill I’ve been wanting to acquire for ages and ages and ages. I helped print some Elvis postcards.

. On Wednesday Jim will be lecturing at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, in conjunction with the Hatch exhibit currently on display there. If you’re in the area, you should go!

I don’t even remember how I first heard about Hatch Show Print. Hatch is such a significant part of American letterpress that it kind of seeps into your consciousness via osmosis if you hang around a studio long enough. As I use letterpress primarily for book making, Hatch is a vibrant reminder of the possibilities of color and space and graphics. And as I am magnetically drawn to French Renaissance typography and fonts, I tend to become mired in a heavy golden dream of the 15th century, to which Hatch also serves as an inspiring wake up call, boldly announcing the goddamn modern *A*M*E*R*I*C*A*N*E*S*S* of printing in these United States.

An exhibit of Hatch Show Print posters just opened here in Seattle at the Experience Music Project - Science Fiction Museum Hall of Fame and I am THRILLED (both to see the exhibit and to actually go inside the EMP - SFM, the name of which always makes me ask Seriously what does that mean???). It’s long running, till July, so you have some time to make a West Coast pilgrimage if you need to. Or if you’re local, you have time to go twice. Or three times. Or four.

(PS Dear Bauhaus, please do not ever, ever, ever again play the instrumental version of the soundtrack to CATS that’s playing right now. Please.)

Human Parts of Me Want to Eat the Flowers off of Trees will be for sale at Colette in Paris in conjunction with the Off Off Bowery exhibit, which opens today and runs until November 1st.