Old pocket notebook, meet new pocket notebook. For the guardian spirit, I decided on this painting of Salt-N-Pepa by Frank Morrison, from the book The Roots of Rap.
Pre-order Keep Going and get a FREE print!
If you pre-order the book before midnight EST April 1, my friends at Workman will send you a free 8″ x 10″ print of my blackout poem, “Overheard on the Titanic.” (“I mean yes we’re sinking / but the music is exceptional.”) Details here. Pre-order sale is now over! (If you want a mini 6″ x 6″ print, tear out the page in Keep Going.)
Here’s a closer look at the print:
Masquerade
One of my favorite little art books to show the kids is photographer Inge Morath’s Saul Steinberg Masquerade, a collection of portraits of people wearing Steinberg’s paper-bag masks. (More from the book here.)
Here’s a mask Owen and I made when he was pretty small out of a Trader Joe’s bag:
Steinberg also made these funny little single sheet masks with just a spot for your nose. I’ll make one sometimes if we’re goofing around:
My pal Wendy is a big Steinberg geek, too — here she is entertaining Jules with a napkin a year ago in San Francisco:
The other day I reminded Owen of the book’s existence, and the next morning he surprised me in the bathroom:
Never gets old.
Not my cup of tea
On the red carpet, Spike Lee busted out a good “it wasn’t for me” variant when asked by some BBC commentators what he thought about Green Book: “Are you British? Are you British? Well, let me give you a very British answer: ‘It’s not my cup of tea!’”
The winter sun is a lie
“The winter sun shows how soon the light fades from the ash, how soon night enfolds us.” —W.B. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
In Herzog’s Nosferatu, Count Dracula says, “I don’t attach importance to sunshine anymore.” That’s me now. The sun up here in The North, if it comes out at all, it lights up your eyeballs, maybe, gives your spirit a moment of novelty, but it doesn’t warm you in your core. I ask the locals some more polite version of, “How do you people live like this?” and they answer, “Large doses of Vitamin D.” (And plane tickets to sunny places like the one I left behind.)
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