Launched.
So it’s been more than a week-as-promised. But it’s not every couple of weeks that one moves one’s corporate headquarters clear across the country, even if one’s corporate headquarters does consist mostly of a laptop and some cardboard boxes of product.
The big move came on the heels of the 400 Words launch party, which happened on Friday the 16th and which was truly the nicest way to leave Ithaca that I could have possibly imagined. Maria Louisa Calandra, artist, co-conspirator (actually the brains behind the whole event), managed to get us written up in the local paper. Thanks Jim Catalano & Ithaca Journal.
The event took place in John Driscoll’s project house at 326 West Seneca. A baby tub of ice and beer, Maria’s paintings all over the rough walls, and an inspired & inspiring set of readings from Issue I. (Most folks who read offered their interpretation of someone else’s piece, and there was something really nice about that.) Anyway, I wish I’d made a recording, but a few pictures will have to do.
What else is new? 400 Words is now available at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, and online through the Clamor Magazine infoSHOP.
And oh yeah! The last thing. Jeffrey Yamaguchi, who posted the original 400 Words call for submissions to his excellent 52projects website last year, has done, and published, an interview with me on the site. My ears and eyes are still burning pleasantly. He also has a book comin’ out, a spin-off from the website published by Penguin and due this November; it’s titled 52 Projects ““ Random Acts of Everyday Creativity. If his websites are an indication, it’s going to be good.
Keep those compulsions coming in, foax.
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