mom placation was ironing by which mens perrypops in a womansuit is the new child mystericating teats that can taint baconated digestive broads plastercasting gnostically from the great gospel wwjh

no, we've got a wordpress blog thingy with info tho. nothing fancy, still thinking bout getting a proper website. gonna wait till we have an ACTUAL PRODUCT first, tho!

www.chancepress.com

i'll post pics of the two editions once they're done.

the first edition of 50 (20 going to contributors) will be hand sewn into paper wraps (got this really nice textured grey green paper) with the title ('A Common Thread') letterpressed onto a piece of arches or rives (friend is doing this for us) and pasted down. in the back you'll find an envelope containing 20 scraps of weird/unusual/pretty paper which each have a poet's signature. there's and intro from me and jordan, and also one from the 'proprietor' of the bukowski forum (the poets are all members, this is the site where j-dawg and i met), he's one of the wittiest, sharpest dudes ever.

then there's a 'tuxedo' edition, which is limited to 5 copies: these are presentation copies for a small number of ppl who've been good to us. they're going to be in paper wraps made from really cool black textured paper, with fancy tissue endpapers.

and there you have it.

the type of poetry we're doing: not flowery stuff. more like raymond carver, narrative stuff, realist, blah blah etc etc.

WE JUST SOLD OUT OF PRE-ORDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!

:-) Plz to party.

This is all rather good, I particularly like your decriptions of the bindings, as a binder (probably ought to say former) I can appreciate the work that goes into hand binding a volume.

On the ground in london, overloaded, motionless in a tunnel, thanks to price buster, smiley culture, the communards and the sons of T.C. Lethbridge for getting me through the flight.

well, it's just a chapbook, so it's not gonna be super fancy hand binding or anything, but i'm trying to figure out a way to sew multiple signatures. got a great book on it, but it's tricky stuff. there's a really good stab-binding technique, but it feels like it might be a bit hit and miss.

guys: my week is OVER!!! finally!!!!!!!!!!

i am annoyed at itunes store. 16 tracks = $19.99 but 1 track = 99¢? they will not allow you to buy all 16 individually. select few are "album only" preventing you from circumventing their tricky little system to overcharge.

this is why people download things illegally.

i bought run dmcs my adidas last night because i <3 it and it had the little ringtone symbol but i can not make go to my iphone let alone make it be ringtone!!!!!!

good morning/afternoon itr! it is saturday!!!

Well, that was 9 hours of my life I'll never get back... Best part of the day was watching the Foley catheter demonstration. I'm so going to be really unproductive tonight.

what is up itr. two show saturday! then carl craig til 2 am! then afterhours at a firetrap named Church of Bass! i will stay up until the morning light!

i have decided that listening to "whiskey in the jar" by thin lizzy while drinking is perhaps the best way i have ever started a saturday night.

so I am several years late to this but HELLO MODESELEKTOR I <3 U

lxy's first ilx post:
I Rate the Modeselektor crowd

i did so much shopping today! it has inspired me to do MORE shopping online!

i am dogsitting and have an entire apartment to myself, which is a+.

In person shopping is not my favorite. I'm taking my SIL to the Mall of America next Friday to a store called "Tall Girl" because she's 6 feet tall and needs to find clothes that fit. I will feel very stupid in this store since I'm not so tall, but you know, anything for the cool family members.

hahaha they couldn't come up with another name?

i just had an exciting night of laundry. try to contain your jealousy.

Well "Tall Boy" would be awfully misleading.

crisp fall night outside on the brits rooftop patio drinking fancy beers eating scotch eggs and talking about comic book movies and eastern european politics with FB and a dude from poland and some other peeps. sometimes life is just right, you know?

Hello ITR! Been crazy busy. Or some combination of the two.

wow that sounds like quite a night!
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it is so humid/sticky here. i feel gross.

Happy Sunday ITR. Envious of John and FB's fun night last night, BUT staying home and watching SNL was surprisingly fun. Followed by a solid 10 1/2 hours of sleep. Almost ready to go back to the constant cramming that this insane class requires.

so i had to work all day yesterday, and was feeling pretty grim about it. jordan picked me up at the end of the day, and he'd bought me my favourite aussie gingerbeer, packed it into a container of ice, also bought me one of my favourite new zealish chocolate bars (cadbury flake, so delish), and then took me out for dinner. best boyfriend ever.

now he's off mountain-biking till this afternoon, so i think i'm just gonna stay in bed.

Nothing wrong with that. I slept in later today than I had in a long time.

I love all you pillow-worshippers.

what was it like Ned? Tell those of us who havent been able to sleep in in years. give us detail. give us sleep porn.

i am so jealous of 10.5 hours sleep omg!!!

i had a lovely day consisting of: brunch, a broadway play (not musical), a walk to buy indulgent eye cream, sushi, and a manicure. so don't want to do hw now.

tehresa - that sounds FANTASTIC! Wow. 10.5 hours of sleep was great, but remember that I'm probably not going to get much on Monday night since Tues. morning I need to get up at 4:30 a.m. in order to be at the hospital for a daytime clinical shift... so I'm trying to rest up now!

God I want sushi now. Instead: treadmill, then study study study. Why? ANOTHER QUIZ TOMORROW NIGHT, OF COURSE!

i am procrastinating on this homework. i did not get much sleep last night because a) some "unknown number" called at 3:15 and then around 4:15 there was some weird noise outside, and then by 8 the dog wanted to be walked. ah well, maybe the eye cream will help this.

i forgot to tell you guys (WARNING: MUSHY LOVEY DOVEY ALERT)

.....

while we were back in chicago, jordan's mum took him aside and showed him this antique ring (over 100yrs old) and told him he could give it to me when he's ready (she already has a DIL, so i'm stoked that she'd rather i have it). of course it was all supposed to be secret, but i asked jordan what the big mystery was as soon as he came back in the room and he told me right away (no secrets here, not even good ones!).

awww. congrats!!!

i mean, eventually. unless they are in order now. either way: :)

haha! well. i mean, moving here was pretty much like saying 'okay we're pretty committed' i.e. 'engaged'. jordan told me he wanted to give me a ring just before i go back to nz.

don't tell him i told you guys! he'd be so embarrassed!

That's awesome!

Describe ring, plz. (yes, I'm shallow as hell)

oh it was sara that got the 10 1/2 hours sleep, not Ned!! obv. i need sleep.

I am horrendously tired and my body is in revolt from having drunk 4 martinis, a bottle or two of wine plus champagne and dessert wine yesterday. This comes on top of friday's 10 hour international free drinks session. I am all ruin.

That is an awesome story RR.

sara, i didn't get to see the ring, it was all hush-hush! but i think jordan said it was platinum and diamond/s? but we had plans for simple titanium wedding rings, so not sure how the two would go together...

oh man i had horrendous nightmares about murder and torture last night and i am not feeling very good this morning :(

Yikes - I hate nightmares. I hope your day is better than your night was, RR.

Hmmmmmm - I'm clueless in the area of titanium vs. platinum, but I would never reject platinum because WOW. My rings are both white gold - wedding band = very simple, plain band that could do with anything. Could you put a white gold wedding ring with the engagement ring? Hmmmm... you'd probably have to see these things together, huh.

Ed - that is quite an impressive weekend of intake there. I wish you and your liver the best of luck. ;)

Sunny... I hope you can get a nap at least!

I am supposed to be going to the gym this evening but I suspect I shall limit myself to sitting in the steam room exuding toxins. Have to be in tip top form for two more birthday parties this weekend, one of them mine.

sara, no i really want titanium wedding bands! plus DO NOT WANT to spend much $$ on rings. maybe a few hundred for both, max.

guys can I lock all the politics threads on ILE for a month
please

YES

Just continually drop them from new answers.

or delete them

or move them to I Love TMI