Date: July 8th 2010

Hey everyone,

Shannon Gerard, the amazing artist for my SWORD OF MY MOUTH graphic novel, is touring the west coast through August. As well as promoting the book she is also researching her family history, which includes travelling puppeteers. Starting in California and heading up to Vancouver, she's hoping to do little talks on the unique drawing process she used in SWORD, sell some original art from the book and some of her ribald and topical crafts, and she's open to doing workshops to share her bookmaking and silkscreening skills. If you'd like her to come to your town and you can put her up, or show her around, or help organize an event, drop me a line and I'll put you in touch. Check out her site at:
http://shannongerard.org
...any west coast puppet-related leads appreciated too!

Me? Post-production on the new lo-fi sci-fi movie is coming along, though we could use more SFX help. I'm organizing an indie arcade at Toronto's biggest art night, Nuit Blanche, through a videogame culture collective called the Hand Eye Society:
http://handeyesociety.com/project/the-arcadian-renaissance/
...that's kind of a big deal.

But the majority of my time this summer I'm taking care of my 2.75yr old Sidney while Susan finishes off her thesis. We live right on a major street downtown and when Sid was in the bath yesterday we heard a siren.
Sidney: It's from a fire truck.
Me: Yep, or a police car. Do you know what a police car is?
Sidney: Yeah.
Me: You do? What does it look like?
Sidney [blinks, thinks a second]: A dolphin.

The darnedest things, I tell you--

Jim
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