running water, 2008
digital collage by Mr Koppa

COLD MOON 2008 UPDATE

And now it's cold
oh man, is it cold
and the snow just keeps on blowing.
But the days are getting longer.

WHAT'S NEWS Nothing. Nine days late with this update, but here we are on the winter solstice, and things are looking up. Work, the holiday season, and life in general got in the way of progress in the virtual world. A few new blahgs, but that's about it for this webstie in good ol' historic 2008.

In the planning category, however, we have big, big news. Between us, we've decided that the entertainment system we built last year, complete now with awesome Sony receiver off Craig's List and a Mitsubishi turntable I got LAST Christmas, could go in the livingroom where the Christmas tree is, opening up the playroom to become the pressroom. We discussed a detailed plan to accomplish setting up the printing press by the end of 2009. This involves prepping and painting the livingroom, a new floor in the playroom, which will become the pressroom, and ripping out the closet to make room for the type cabinets. Then moving all the shit in from the basement, the garage, and the cabin at Heavy Duty Acres, where it's all been stored since we moved to Viroqua in 2004. And then setting it all up. A new letterpress-printed book from The Heavy Duty Press in 2010? Six years after Becoming Flight? It sounds so good it feels like I have to make it happen. And it could happen. I think it will.

The collage show at the nearby and excellent Driftless Cafe will be up through mid-January. The opening reception was a lot of fun. Amazingly, the best turn-out I've ever witnessed, and not only the most work I've ever sold at an opening (over 15 years), but the first time I've ever sold anything at an opening...ever. Thank you to all who showed up and drank all the beer and of course those who paid for the party (and more) through their purchases. A really good time. Thank you, Viroqua.

Next full moon: WOLF, January 10.

2009: FUNDAMENTAL LIVING ON EARTH
What do we all have in common? We eat, shit, and sleep. And we're doing
it all wrong. Most of us, anyway. The way we eat is directly related to the way
we treat the Earth (God's creation, if you want to get religious about it, or the
living soil and water, objectively). It's time for everyone to start thinking about
these things. Maybe you have. And if you don't believe me, read this.

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