***“that’s nothing; there is a vending machine at an airport in orlando that sells ipods”
The
Zine Machine has survived its first month as a hatchway to the counter culture. Or just google “zine vending machine” for a surprising array. Because they are paper, Zines can act like Snaks.
cities of books
Populations of books were swept away by Katrina. As we go to ALA New Orleans, recall the
storm’s strong right side that hit lower Mississippi.
“Gates Foundation has announced a $12.2-million grant to the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) to assist libraries on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. The money will establish temporary facilities, support planning to rebuild destroyed or damaged libraries, and eventually pay for new computers in rebuilt public libraries. SOLINET will administer the grant and help state library agencies collaborate with state legislatures and governorsí offices. The Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund will give an additional $5 million for library recovery and new construction.”
all of your bases are belong to us
“the authors question the exclusionary paradigms which bar (peeps) from participation in the conservation of our cultural heritage. On April 1, 2006, student conservators from the Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record investigated integrating Peeps into the conservation laboratory environment. The results of the study are detailed and suggestions are given for promoting a Peep-positive workplace.”
from $17.95 to $4
I noticed a table in front of the Library of Congress bookstore. It was stacked with remaindered copies of
Writing Machines the collaborative creation of N. Katherine Hayles and Anne Burdick. A small haptic euphoria occured when the foredge printing splayed MACHINES one way and WRITING the other. The adventure of the materiality of print is inside.
When I got home I put it on the shelf and didn’t give it a another thought. That was a mistake. It fell opened this morning and it appears to be the train ticket for an express train. It turns out that the print book “is an artifact fashioned to consume the reader even as the reader consumes it. We cannot say that we have not been warned.”
At night two Chinese steam engines are being run out onto the Iowa landscape. This is everyreader’s own fictional autobiography.