No Oct Meetin'

SANEsters,

The Nays have it, so there will be NO SANE MEETING in October. Nor will SANE be meeting in October. But the good news out of all this is that Boo "Clint" Radley will be available for the meetings startin' 18 Nov, which is the date of our next meetin'! He'll no doubt be standing in a hollow tree filming us during the meeting, so bring a trinket to leave in the knothole, if you know what I mean. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.

Sincerely,
A Smoked Ham with legs

No Place for Old Meetings

SANEsters,

News of the Thursday meeting surprised Pam A., who is unable to host, busy as she is with the high holidays of Halloween - the two other traditional hosts (Molly and Richard) are unable to attend/host, so we're down at least three people and have no place to meet. This is the thanks we get for rearranging our schedule to accommodate... I can't remember who, but I know it's someone!

Are these too many hurdles to overcome? Does one "overcome" a hurdle, or merely run/leap over it? Or does "overcome" also mean "come over" as in "leap over"?

My simplistic view is that, since the next meeting is slated for 18 November (and Pam A. is chomping at the bit to host it, and even volunteered to come up with a project!), that we abandon this poor benighted Thursday meeting and wait until 18 November - but if a host and a quorum of willing attendees make themselves known, perhaps there is a better altered native.

And furthermore, what do we do on 18 November? Do we come up with a plan, or do we put ourselves in Pam A's competent hands? And I mean that in an entirely innocent and non-suggestive fashion.

Yr. Obdt. Srvt,
Cormac

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