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mickey-d modeling

May 27, 2011
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Oh yes, that’s me pulling my tongue out of my mouth. I got silly for the camera with Jen Schmidt Photography for a McDonald’s casting call. I ended up on their short list for a shoot, but didn’t make the final cut. Perhaps my tongue is too fat?

Anywho, look for a girl who resembles me in a McDonald’s ad and you’ll know who to blame. Same goes for Skittles, who put me on call a month or so back but didn’t pick me either.

At least I still have the city buses in San Francisco, which I still need to go see — only have a bad camera-phone photo taken by a friend. And of course there’s still my legacy in the Apple store. I snapped these photos for posterity when I was in there this week. It’s been so long that I’m bound to disappear soon… we’ll see.

 

 

mud cakes copy editing

May 25, 2011
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Just finished copy editing Mud Cakes, a poetry collection by Jason Schossler, winner of the 2010 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize. It’s the second in Bona Fide Books’ 2011 lineup, and another great read. Some of my favorites from the collection include: Ink, Lavatory, Inspiration, Charity, Beachcombers, Potholes, and Atari Summer. Will keep you posted on the book’s progress!

(mud cake photo via Intent Blog)

bike art & do tell

May 13, 2011
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Fun times for Moonshine Ink this month… I traveled to Reno to chat with Reno Bike Project’s head honcho about the upcoming We HeART Bikes exhibit for my DiStill Life art column, and then hit the Tahoe City and Truckee streets to conduct ad hoc interviews for Do Tell, Moonshine‘s monthly community question.

I must say it was crazy how many people turned me down for such a benign question: Which of your father’s traits do you most admire? So many folks were afraid to have their photos taken. Props go to Dan Lee Rowell, my first taker. He was in need (asking for spare change outside the post office) yet giving with his time and words. Thanks Dan! I’ll add in the links as soon as the stories are live on Moonshine‘s website.

(photo of North Tahoe Museum’s Saddle Time art exhibit, via Tahoe Mountain Sports‘ Facebook page)

broken social scene

April 22, 2011
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Whenever I write about music, I always think of this Elvis Costello quote: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Sometimes it feels pointless to muse over a live show since everything feels so “in the moment.” Regardless, I did it anyways, and my Broken Social Scene Reno show review is live. Read it! Such a fun time. The band was surprisingly more feisty than I remembered them to be at Wanderlust. And how great are these press photos?

images (top to bottom) by Norman Wong and Dave Gillespie

back in TQ

April 16, 2011
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Just got my copies of the Tahoe Quarterly home issue… such an awesome cover home! It’s bittersweet to see the 2011 home awards spread since this is the first time in some six years that I haven’t been on the tours. Walking through the finalist homes was always one of my favorite times of the year at that job. But it sure is exciting to flip through the pages and not know what’s coming next!

When you scope out all the architecture and design packed in the issue, don’t miss my arts profile of Paul Bailey on page 36 (the first story I’ve done for TQ since leaving last June) or my friend Ian profiled on page 32. Love that guy!

permanent vacation

April 7, 2011
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Oh happy day! The Permanent Vacation official book launch party is set, for Wednesday May 4 at Lake Tahoe Community College. No offense to all the other books I’ve edited through the years, but Permanent Vacation is my favorite. Such a joy to copy edit and proofread, it barely felt like work!

The launch celebrating Bona Fide Books’ inaugural volume includes a reading from the Tahoe locals whose work appears in the collection: Joseph Flannery and Janet Smith. Event is free so come! 7pm in the Aspen Room at Lake Tahoe Community College.

my first zine: the incredible, impossible zoo

January 14, 2011
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My latest Moonshine Ink DiStill Life column is out on the stands, and this month I tackled zine-making after meeting Sarah Lillegard Of Reno’s Go For Broke Collective, an organization promoting zines and zine-making. Here’s a look at my finished zine:

My finished one-page, which I then photocopied to make the zine:

Of course, once I made this (and proclaimed that I hadn’t seen a bona fide zine since high school), zines are popping up everywhere I look. Like this awesome, full-color illustrated zine on Etsy and the charming Spoonful zine.

Read the online version of the story here.