Last night Natasha I and a few of the new hamsters sat around spilling our minds onto 4×5 advertising cards that we printed by the hundreds at our favorite chain office supply store. They are all works of art, some more valuable than others, and I think they do a fine job of communicating our mission as human entities caught between the insufferable void of nothingness and the tickle of value and commerce.

The new darkroom is almost up and running. Soon we will have finished collecting enlargers and sinks and constructing counters and it will be time to hide it all in the dark so that you who like to capture can release as well.  Kill two birds with one stones then you have three stones, or 2+2=5 as George Orwell tried to warn us.  I dont see it as such a bad thing. Things gotta get born.  It’d be nice to see you soon.

“I told Addie it want any luck living on a road when it come by here, and she said, for the world like a woman, “Get up and move, then.” But I told her it want no luck in it, because the Lord put roads for travelling: why He laid them down flat on the earth. When He aims for something to stay put, He makes it up-and-down ways, like a tree or a man. And so He never aimed for folks to live on a road, because which gets …

_______

———