Vigorously Lazy

Isabella Rosselini is back with season 2 of Green Porno, this time the focus is the sea. A little more sedate and dull than season 1, but still funny and informative.

In case you missed it yesterday. New goodness.

Even though this little gem was a steady competitor for this week’s BBCDW, I decided not to go with something that took me five minutes to mock-up in InDesign.

This collection came out almost a year ago but it’s just popping up on my radar. The cover for the Justin Taylor-edited collection concerning the end of days has a look like it’s survived a 50 year stint in an underground fallout shelter. No surprise why this is viscerally appealing. Writers and lit types love old shit. Preferably mid century old shit. It reminds them of a time when novels and stories held greater sway with the average American psyche. Days before the Facebooks, days before every new product name was preceded by a lower case “i”. Don’t worry writers. Those days will be over soon. In fact, all the days will be over soon. Excellent work on facilitating the end of the world, Justin Taylor.

Hey y’all, big news in my neck of the woods today. I been keeping this one a secret for a while now but the cat’s out of the bag today.

It’s with great pleasure that I announce that my first collection of poetry is going to be published by Simon & Schuster this fall. It’s called “But by Then I Was Too Famous” and I’m really proud of it. Most of you who know me know that I’ve held adamant stances against most poetry and poets in the past, but that was all just a clever ruse to throw you off my scent.

So that’s the big news! It’s not a joke! Read all about it here.

I’m making some postcards this week. Here’s the first two and the back. I’m making them to get ready for this. Last book fair we had no little trinkets to give away. People like free shit apparently.

Anyway, lemme know what you think about these, or if there’s a particular image or story from issue #4 that you think should be immortalized on a postcard.

Stumbled upon this note-perfect animated short by super talented Russian-born illustrator, animator and story artist Vera Brosgol. Definitely worth your two and a half minutes.

Actually, this one probably falls under “Almost Good Book Cover Design of the Week.” The cover for Sana Krasikov’s debut of stories falls just short of sublime due to publishing house pressures to put a big ugly blurb from a wildly bestselling author conspicuously on the front. Also, that stock Adobe cursive font used for her name isn’t helping things either.

Regardless, this looks to be a good writer to keep an eye on. Check out one of her stories here. And have you seen a picture of her yet? Yowza! I gotta move to New York.

I love this game so much I’m going to get it pregnant.