Mistake By Charles Bukowski

Mistake
Charles Bukowski

I reached up into the top of the closet
and took out a pair of blue panties
and showed them to her and
asked "are these yours?"

and she looked and said,
"no, those belong to a dog."

she left after that and I haven't seen
her since. she's not at her place.
I keep going there, leaving notes stuck
into the door. I go back and the notes
are still there. I take the Maltese cross
cut it down from my car mirror, tie it
to her doorknob with a shoelace, leave
a book of poems.
when I go back the next night everything
is still there.

I keep searching the streets for that
blood-wine battleship she drives
with a weak battery, and the doors
hanging from broken hinges.

I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.

a confused old man driving in the rain
wondering where the good luck
went.

I like the picture above of Charles Bukoswki.

Anorak Magazine - The Happy Mag For Kids

I read about the Anorak Magazine- The Happy Mag For Kids at
Book By Its Cover. Julia Rothman writes, that Anorak just blew her away when she first saw it. She wondered whether it would be weird if she ordered a subscription for herself.
So I checked out the links she posted and she is right The design is awesome and the illustrations fantastic.
I ordered a copy of it too and now I´m keeping it hidden from the kids. :) I want to enjoy it first before they get their hands on this little gem. After having seen this great kids´magazine, which comes with colored “happy pencils”, I´m thinking of getting a subscribtion myself.
For more images check out SuperMundane (one of the creators behind the magazine) and here or here.

The cover:


And some random pages:

Oh Yes By Charles Bukowski

Oh Yes
Charles Bukowski

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.

I never have been able to relate to people who can´t stand being alone. Ever since I remember I enjoy being with people, but somehow I enjoy it even more being alone.
With this poem I´m starting a short series of Charles Bukowski´s poems.

Made And Unmade By Shannon Gerard

Just by chance I discovered Shannon Gerard´s shop at Etsy while browsing the comics they have there. She writes:

"Shannon Gerard is a dorky bibliophile who writes and draws the illustrated memoir series HUNG. She also makes print-based artist's books about loss, faith, fear and other melancholy things."

What I really liked about her zines and books are the illustrations. They are just phantastic and striking! I´m glad I found them and yesterday the mini comic Made and Unmade arrived. It is a short comic which combines drawings with a short poetic narrative about lost relationships. The books are pamphlet stitched by hand in a limited edition of 60.
I think, I´ll have to get some more of her work.

Award Again!

I received an award from Ces . Thanks! So here you go, I´m passing the award on to the next 10 blogs:

You made my day:

1. Artist in LA LA Land for this book review.
2. Auntie Mim for being such an honest and enjoyable blogger.
3. Book By Its Cover for all the great recommendations but not for the empty wallet I have since I started reading the blog.
4. Design Crush also for her posts and for showing me these wonderful rings. I ordered two of them.
5. Jeanette´s Sketchblog because I love her illustration style and for her lovely fluffy bunny pic.
6. Keri Smith for being inspiring and specially for the truth!
7. Obsessive Consumption for inspiring me to start a new blog and for the lovely magazines which arrived today.
8. Presurfer because the past weeks I really posted a lot of stuff on my blog, which I found at that site.
9. Someone I can´t remember for leading me to this little website by Miranda July.
10. Swiss Miss for her great posts and her recommendations.

Birthday?

No, it isn´t my Birthday today, but I received so many books and stuff today that I almost started singing "Happy Birthday to you, happy ...". Saturday we do not get our mail. So Mondays we sometimes receive the double amount of packages (usually of books) and letters.

The next posts will be about some of the books (Anorak, Obsessive Consumption, Will Happiness Find Me?, Erotic Haiku, Miranda July, Shannon Gerard). You can read about a part of them (Chronik 2008 and the zines from Obsessive Consumption) here at my other blog though.
Oh... and I received a book from my husband, but that will be the final post about the books as that one is really special.

10 Years Ago

Here´s the link to the new blog 10 Years Ago:

New Project for 2008

I have been admiring Kate Bingaman-Burt´s blog Obsessive Consumption for a few months now. She started taking pictures of all her purchases in the year 2002 and then posted hand drawn images of them on her blog. Inspired by her I decided to start a daily project too.

At 10 years ago I´m going to to post quick illustrations of interesting events which happened on the same day but some years ago. I think this is going to be fun. The illustrations will all be done in my Moleskine 2008 Daily Planner.

2008 Already Sucks!

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I´ve been wanting to exchange portraits with Rama Hughes so badly. Along with Tommy Kane, he is my favorite illustrator. This is the second contest which was held at the Portrait Party. I was runner-up in the first contest and this time I thought I wouldn´t even find the time to join. But the last days of December I suddenly had the time and a lot of partners to exchange portraits with.
And now I´ve made it!!! Woo hoo! You can´t imagine how emotional and teary-eyed I was when I read the post announcing that I had made it. I could hug the world.

I can tell you is that this is a wonderful way to start 2008 and nope, 2008 doesn´t suck. In fact this contest really made my year! :) New Year´s Eve was great too. Maybe I´ll post that later.

BTW: Here you can check out all my portrait exchanges for The Portrait Party!

Happy New Year!

Hope all of you have a wonderful year 2008. May all of you find whatever you wish for. May it be...

GOOD LUCK:

© by Paolo Franco

BRAINS:

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FUN:

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TRAVEL:

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WEIGHT LOSS:

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DELICIOUSNESS: (specially for Benjamin)

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HOT LOVE:

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MONEY:

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Paolo Franco from Milan makes wonderful pics. All pictures posted above were shot by him. You should check out his website to see his work.

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And last but not least:

AN EVIL EYE:

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