Do as you are told

Make haste to the Pacific Center for the Book's Calendar Show, cuz I JUST finished printing the last two months (pant pant) after various snafus in production... but I've got the evil German binding machine in my studio now (Thanks to David Watanabe of Salmon Graphics) and am punching and wire binding away like a madman.

The party is on Friday, November 30th, at the San Francisco Center for the Book, from 6-9. More letterpress calendars than you can shake a stick at!



Wait, we aren't finished installing yet! Look somewhere else!





Mulled cider and cookies and platen presses.

The Rat Race is On!

I have about a month to finish printing Shortwave Production (Garret Izumi) and Wasabi Press (Patricia Wakida)'s 2008 Year of the Rat Calendar.

All months have been linocarved and printing on the letterpresses has begun....Garret is doing half of them in Portland, and I'm doing the other half here in Oakland.

Cheese out!

Jack O'Lanterns of Berkeley

I went trick or treating with my little friends, Anthony (pirate with skeleton hands) and Jeremy (spider guy? he wore a shirt with cobwebs screenprinted on it), through the haunted streets of Berkeley on All Hallow's Eve. Kids won't stand still for photos, but gutted pumpkins sure will.

NaNoWriMo

I'm a gonna do it this year! I already started a day late (started November 2nd) and have only 1,084 words clocked in. I'm not panicking. I'm writing. No working on the Shig book for this though, since it is a novel writing deal breaker, but the good news is that I have indeed started writing parts of the Shig book too. I'm turning in a short biography piece for the 50th Anniversary issue of Beatitude on Monday, and it better look good since the audience is 100% Shig cronies. Eek.

But back to the novel-