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Eric Myers and I will be hosting a four-day workshop in September at 826 Valencia.

Conversations With The World

Taught by Scott Lambridis and Eric Myers
Limited to 12 students, ages 11–14
September 4, 11, 18, & 25
Tuesdays, 6:00–8:00 PM

The Cerrito Speakeasy contacted me about 8 months ago to be their August Artist-of-the-Month, based on the God’s Acre artwork (which features 3 artists and a musician). Twas a challenging hang, but with a few bits of fishing line and some big fat nuts to hang at the end, it came out pretty damn cool.

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Just a quick entry this time to let our readers know about a new book out by Omnibucket’s own contributor and regular Ology columnist, Rebecca Brock. Here’s my official take:

Brock’s latest work, ‘Abominations’ is near 250 pages of deftly crafted horror fiction
with a central theme of living (or not) in a world populated by the relentless and hungry undead.

Shouting Fire radio invited yours truly to co-host a radio show hosted by Eric Myers. We played some tunes, and talked about all things Omnibucket and publishing and multimedia, and of course, the upcoming Book of CLAV. The show aired Friday 4/4 at 10am PST, 2PM PST, and 6PM PST.

Hey everybody!

We’ve been working like a colony of bees lately.
The productive kind, not the angry, “follow you up to 3 times the normal distance and sting you 8 to 10 more times than their regular Americanized cousins” type of colony, I should say.

In part, what that means is,

Notes to self for next workshop:

1. Create & bring sample Story Maps pre-filled.
2. Some of those should be for well-known books & movies.
3. Start workshops with questions about what they learned last time.
4. Class voting for Story Map contents.
5. Make sure each student has one map item per exercise.
6. Add ‘name’ fields to materials.
7. The paper thing, re: last post.
8. Be mindful of my apparent obsession with lists.

Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper. Less paper.

“I thought you said there wouldn’t be much paperwork,” said the sharp and precocious blond locked girl of twelve.

Yes, there was still too much paper. Why didn’t I learn from last time?

Yes, I gave out lots of paper. Yes, I babbled, though no one told me so. Whew.

Day 1 went swimmingly, despite the deluge of paper. I shall not provide mostly-blank pages for brainstorming lists anymore. I shall however continue much the same otherwise since the kids responded very well. I have full lists for each of the eight different brainstorming activities, and completed Story Maps from each of the nine students to prove it.

Kids is some smarties, I tells ya.

My co-teacher Eric Myers and I were quite impressed with the creativity and the willingness to contribute to the class dialogue.

And, as you can see by our own Story Map, we are well on our way to a riveting tale.

Until next week…

Independent distributor Enemi Entertainment now has 2nd editions of Brainchild and God’s Acre available through their catalog.

God’s Acre’s second edition is the same as the first, though it is not a limited edition (copies of the first edition are still available here).

Brainchild’s second edition on the other hand has a few surprises. We removed the three advertisement pages and replaced them with three new artworks. The edition isn’t limited, but it’s improved!

Good friend and Omnibucket editor Rosie Atkins posted the most interesting endorsement of Barack Obama that I have yet to read on her I Ride Muni blog:

Here’s the opening snippet:

“I agree with everything Ms. Kennedy wrote, but when I look at Senator Obama, I see a president like my son. Like Obama, my son is biracial. Unlike Obama, my son, born in 1995, is not unique in his multi-culturalism, or in his brownness. His is a world that is increasingly interconnected.”

Scott Baio Raisin Conspiracy!

For too long, the truth has been suppressed.
Shortly after1983’s release of ‘The Boys are Out Tonight’ Baio dropped off the radar and disappeared from the public eye. What of those missing years?

What became of him?

Finally, a clue has surfaced despite the best efforts of those who would have the public left in the darkness of ignorance, and we can see, for the first time, the transformation that Baio underwent in the drug fueled confusion of the early 90s. That’s right, our own beloved Scott Baio is the model for the Sunmaid Raisins raisin girl.

Dried fruit lovers everywhere salute you Scott!

Hail Nature’s Candy

Hail!
Hail!