Yeah it’s hot but I’m outside anyway. Camp has begun next door at the school but so far it has been tolerable (no electronic bullhorns or high volume dubstep music).
The book details continue to be challenging. This morning I’m revising the all-important blurb (thanks Deb! Insightful as always).
Yesterday, in trying to get the spine dimension for my book cover designer (which requires knowing not just the number of pages but the weight of the paper), D2D’s support team supplied me with incorrect information (that’s Draft2Digital — a self-publishing aggregator). Groundwood paper? Really? The stuff that turns yellow with age and gets brittle?
Both on Reddit and Facebook, I posted this info and asked if others thought it problematic and if so who should I use for print-on-demand services instead.
The CEO of D2D entered the Reddit thread with the correct info (no, they don’t use groundwood paper). The CEO.
I was a little gobsmacked honestly. I don’t wish ill on the person who supplied me with wrong information, but if she were to be fired it should be for the terse “see my previous email” tone and not for her mistake. Bad form.
The NExT email came from someone else and instead of bitchily referring me to tutorials, explained what I needed to know in some detail. Apologized twice. Onward!
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This at-times-blurry video (below) of a work-in-progress is 54 seconds long. The wobble of cloth is caused by the air coming through a vent near my feet.
Shown: words printed on silk. I also printed them on a sturdy canvas but I think I like the delicacy of the silk. Now to decide where to put them and whether I want pink cloth behind them or not.
It’ll be 93 here in another hour and a half. Not radically unusual but hot and sticky nevertheless. My weather app says that, counting in the humidity, it will feel like 101 degrees.
Lots more mosquitos than other years. Ugh.
I wonder on days like this- what would Nixon have said and done. Just for the fun to it.
I think he’d feel vindicated for his statement “when the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.” He wouldn’t have had to resign. That isn’t my take but Ive seen others saying as much.
I think your “words on cloth” are GREAT. I wonder where it is that we can have such works of art publicly displayed? One in each voting place?
Probably too partisan? But it’d be great to have it “out there”
The CEO. Wow.
I agree, having yours…and other’s work -Out There – would be great, especially if out there was in a public space where conversation and a transfer of information could be had.
May you wear the heat well.
Walked Finn while it was still in the 80’s and although I keep making forays out to the garden, they’re brief and usually involve water. Thank god for AC.
It sounds like you’re having a Georgia summer. Thunder is curdling as I type. From a customer service provider most of my working life if you didn’t rise to the occasional challenge you would burn out of boredom. This was one of the reasons why I like working night tours. The strange can become wonderful if you take a stance as one who could perform magic.
I’ve been surprised over the years how often it’s been hotter here than there.
I’ve come back several times to read and re-read your words on cloth, wondering how they could be displayed, how these words could be read by many. Our local libraries here have displays that change every month so I though, a library could work. However, I also thought, this might be too political. As I continued thinking about this, I realized that, we go to libraries for information, to find books that enlighten, inform, bring us laughter, bring us joy, bring us questions, bring us answers…to me, displaying the words on cloth, in particular, the canvas cloth, that so looks like a book page, would be a gift to any community.
These days of unrelenting agony regarding the state of our country and this election, have caused me, at times, to simply, stop the reading, the discussing and find places to “veg out”. My recent “veg out was watching TV yesterday for the Euro semi-finals. My British son-in-law got me turned onto world soccer. This coming Sunday, there will be a huge rivalry in my daughter’s household. My daughter is all about Spain; has traveled there many times, including to my parents home towns. Her husband, who is from England, and who ironically taught English for a year in Spain and loves the country, is all about his country and the British soccer team, the Three Lions. What is fascinating to me is that I have always been an anglophile,not at all interested much in my Spanish roots so how is it that I have gone about the house singing, “Viva Espana ” which means Go Spain! I also could not resist, yesterday, after England won their match against the Netherlands, sending a little ditty to my son-in-law, , along the lines of the song used in My Fair Lady. I wrote,
“Oh the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain…of England.
The rain in Spain will turn into a Euro Reign**
For Spain will be England’s pain!”
The things we do to maintain our sanity…!
My brother is a huge soccer fan and would really appreciate this rivalry. I think he’s a Manchester United fan? But maybe it’s the other Manchester team. In any case. I couldn’t be more grateful for soccer’s contribution to HIS mental health as well. He does group texts with guys he played soccer with in high school during many games. What a nice way to stay in touch!
My cousin Ginny reached out to me yesterday to request the SCOTUS piece for Ceres Art Gallery in New York. Maybe the place doesn’t get a whole lot of traffic but it will be good to “get it out there” even a little.
I’m going to reprint the lines with some spaces so I can cut them into smaller units.
A gallery is a great venue Dee, what a good idea. Certainly would get more traffic than a library which I doubt would allow such an exhibit; at least, not a public library.
I thought about your blog title, Pattern and Outrage … and rage …
rage, rage against the dying of the light … the light of democracy
rage we must, and then rage some more
And donate our time and money to preserving democracy. I’m sending out 20 more postcards today. It’s for a slot on the Orlando School Board. All these down-ballot positions matter!
Wow I have read your cloth now a few times .. I keep thinking about all the people coming to Milwaukee next week for the conversation and wish I could shove a copy into each of their faces. I know I’d be wasting my time which is so terribly frustrating. Waiting for this evening’s message from President Biden. It’s all just so crazy … I can’t get my head to stop spinning.