Meeting Report

Everybody got a chance to relate a medical story, or in Rutger's case, a tale of bloody guts he saw on Grey's Saint ER Anatomy Elsewhere Hope. We all cut and pasted and/or drew and ate and sat on the bench playing with the pencils until it came time to figure out when the next meetin' wuz, and that's where things all started to get fuzzy.

There was a movement afoot (hey, get offa mah foot) to try a non-Tuesday meeting, in hopes of being able to see Flip again before we all forgot what he looked like. Flip who?, I hear you ask. In the ensuing confusion, we got three meetings scheduled, so hold on to your #2 pencils:

Thursday, 30 October 2008 - something Halloweenie.
Tuesday, 18 November 2008 - something
Tuesday, 6 January 2009 - Winter Solstice Dinner, held after December to avoid that pre-Yuletide hecticism - another outing to a restaurant was proposed, followed by a discussion of the many places we'd been to that have since folded for lack of us coming back. Plans are still in flux. Got a suggestion? Lemme know, or ambush us at the next meeting.

Mary brought a buncha postcards for the Fort Point Open Studios Sat/Sun 18-19 Oct 11am-6pm - for more info, go to www.fortpointarts.org

Also, I heard mention of Vamp & Tramp bookdealers, who handle some of Mary's books, and you can find her listed here:
http://www.vampandtramp.com/newarrivals.html -or-
http://www.vampandtramp.com/finepress/m/mary-mcCarthy.html

If or when? I thought so.

Rutger

9/30 Meet at Richard's! Change of Venue

The meeting site for the 9/30/2008 SANE meeting has changed - rather than asking SANEsters to travel deep within the wooly wilds of Belmont, we're relocating to the dizzying heights and astonishing breadths of Richard's house in Somerville - so change your calendars to reflect this change. Stock up on gasoline, remember to change your tires & suspension from wooly/wild to height/breadth, bring extra oxygen. And Happy New Year to our Jewish members - go nuts with the blowing of the shofar, you crazy kids.

As I remember, we'll be doing a Project. Be sure to bring Supplies. For those who don't actually remember what we're doing, this is what I reported way back in September when we set the meeting date, edited for the most up-to-date and correct information:

So, we will be meeting at Richard's at around 7:00 pm on Tuesday, 30 September 2008, and we will be making Carol Barton's folderol-up cards to put someone into the White House, a la the suggestion proffered by Ms. Mary (who told Bestey, who told Ratso, and so on, and so on, and so on...) For the forgetful, the .pdf file that describes the process more completely, with things to print in jolly color and everything, is:

http://www.popularkinetics.com/Images/Making Photos/White House Pop-Up/White House Pop-Up.PDF

Of course, them what wants to elect the wolf from "Dances with Wolves," Sarah Palin (aka "The Broad of Frankenstein"), The God Emperor of Dune, or Triffidia, the Poison-Dart-Spitting Flower to the White House, The Plaza, the Bowery, The Polar Entrance(s) to the Hollow Earth, or Casa Gigi, a light, piddly chalet with a short skirt and an old nearby guest house with a sappy French accent), are welcome to cadge and/or create their own graphics, using (or not) Carol B's handy-dandy template, and do whatever thou wilst. "Whilst" is still a funny word, by gum!

All I'm saying is that we need not feel constrained by The Bartinator's imagination: that we're making a foldering-up card kinda sumthing sorta like the McCain/Obama-in-the-White-House card, only it's up to you to figure out perzackly what that is and brang it along witchoo (gesundheit!).

So bring cardlike stock, either printed on already and/or ready for you to add graphicals to, cutting tools (Bowie knives, acetylene torches, sarcasm, 5-bladed razors or X-Rated knives), glue-like substances, and an envelope (or something that lets you know just what size an envelope is, so your creation will have some way to get where it's going), a quick wit and no small amount of self-confidence and appear at Richard's door [front or rear, but not both at the same time] at 7ish on, well, you know the date -- 30 September 2008.

Good to get that off my comb-over.
Donny Tramp

Museum of Bad Aht

Ms. Betsey, too scared to actually add a comment to this blog, has corresponded via electronomical mail, asking for a favor. She starts:

Oh, my, aren't we mister control guy!!!!

How can I, a mere human, resist such sweet talk? She continues:

Well, why not since you started it and maintain it for us lower primates. the thing I wanted all to see was the site for the Museum of Bad Art. The paintings and their descriptions are very funny.

Perhaps everyone has read it already but I hadn't looked at it in years. Got a chuckle in these chuckleless times.

Honestly, she had me at "Mister Control Guy." For those interested, a good-sized collection of the Museum has been on display in the basement of the Somerville Theater for a month (described in the press as a "second gallery," or MOBA 2), free to all who buy a ticket to a movie there. (seriously, I do not kid about stuff like this). View it while a movie is going on in the main theater upstairs for added surrealism.

I also added a link to Carol Barton's Popular Kinetics site, from whence the Pop Somebody Up the White House thing came.

Yr. Obt. Srvt., MCG

SANE Shall Meet Again

And the winner is... [drum roll...] Tuesday 30 September 2008 - So far none of the former members included on the previous address list [through dumb luck (no, make that through just plain "dumb")] have replied with their schedule preferences, and most of the current members have. Only one SANEster reporting in can't make it on the 30th, but this person has a problem with the next 10 Tuesdays, so this month's schedule was not a particular issue (gesundheit!). The rest of us should put our thinking caps on and see if there's another night other than Tuesdays which would be good for all of us, to placate the angry scheduling gods. Or not - 10 weeks is only 3 months, and 2 or 3 meetings, depending.

So, we will be meeting at Pam A's at around 7:00 pm on Tuesday, 30 September 2008, and we will be making Carol Barton's foldering-up cards to put someone into the White House, a la the suggestion proffered by Ms. Mary (who told Bestey, who told Ratso, and so on, and so on, and so on...) For the forgetful, the .pdf file that describes the process more completely, with things to print in jolly color and everything, is: 

http://www.popularkinetics.com/Images/Making Photos/White House Pop-Up/White House Pop-Up.PDF

Of course, them what wants to elect the robot from "The Day the Earth Stood Still," "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" (technically ineligible, as that would be a third consecutive term), Tina Fey or Raku, the Smoke-Eating Mollusk-Headed Donkey to the White House, Club 54, the 89th Street Mediterranean Happy Baths, Luray Caverns, or Luray Cabernet (a light, piddly wine with a runny nose and a sore throat), are welcome to cadge and/or create their own graphics, using (or not) Carol B's handy-dandy template, and do whatever thou wilst. Funny word, wilst. Funnier than whilst by a long shot, and there being only an 'h' difference between them, imagine that.

All I'm saying is that we need not feel constrained by The Bartonator's imagination: that we're making a foldering-up card kinda sumthing sorta like the McCain/Obama-in-the-White-House card, only it's up to you to figure out perzackly what that is and brang it along witchoo (gesundheit!).

So bring cardlike stock, either printed on already or ready for you to add graphicals to, cutting tools (Bowie knives, acetylene torches, sarcasm, schizzors or X-Ackley knives), glue-like substances, and an envelope (or something that lets you know just what size an envelope is, so your creation will have some way to get where it's going), a quick wit and no small amount of self-confidence and appear at the door of Pam A's at 7ish on, well, you know the date -- 30 September 2008.

Good to get that off my carapace.

Buzzy

P.S. (Pirate-Script): Arrgh, and remember to m[aargh]k Talk Like a Pirate Day on Friday, 19 September 2008 (it's always on the 19th, no matter what day of the week that [arrgh]). How do I typically celebrate? Well, I get out my old peg leg and eyepatch, carry my p[aargh]rrot around on my should[arrgh], swagg[aargh] a lot, and end my day by gently using my broadsw[aargh]d to prod some daft matey off the plank*. But that's just me. Nobody should tell YOU how to celebrate the high holey days!

* Be sure to get your official Pirate Planks at PlankCo, Plank Purveyors to Persons Piratical, just beyond the singing rock in sunny Skull Cay