SANE misses September meeting, scrambles to save October

I blame myself -- did not get on the scheduling soon enough, and now it's nearly October! We didn't have a quorum (or even a half-dinar) to get in a meeting before September skulked back into its cave, put on its sleepy mask and nod off until August bangs on it's door again in 2013, so I' trying to sneak up on October (2012) so we can hogtie it before its alarm goes off.

Oddly, I have an ache in my metaphorhead.

Early Oct is difficult for some, so I'm thinking Oct 16 (Flip's Natal Day) or Oct 23 (Flip's Natal One-Week anniversary). We don't need to do something Halloweenish, but could. Other project suggestions/inspirationals that have come to me in the intervening months since LobsterPalooza are:

papercraft -- paper people who sit on your shelves

cement bleak -- images in metal strainers/screens

string puppets -- fine art puppets and/or coffee tables

Although there's always orizomegamy (or the other two names we've used for folding paper and adding inkage. Kinda tie-dyed paper-ish. Or Gocco, or Rocky Rococo, Or Bobby Valentine Voo-doo That You-Do So Well dolls. or we could do anything, anything at all.

Sorry about Sept., it's been a very fast month so far anyway. Send me your choice/options for Oct, and we'll try to get that nailed down. In this metaphor, the meeting date is NOT a bear or anything that lives in a cave, because nailing it down would then be cruel, not to mention dangerous.

SANE Meeting

Okay, September's nearly mid-way done, and I haven't prompted us about a meeting, and we haven't had a meeting, and, yes, I'm a slug. So how 'bout it, wanna get together and put on a show? Or we could meet. Tuesdays left over in Sep include the 18th and 25th.

Betsey sent along a project inspirational: http://artstormer.com/tag/claire-oswalt/

Not the coffee table feller near the top (the image didn't appear to me, but it links), I don't think, but scroll further down.

There were other projects what I can't remember right now. Remind me!

Send in your votes, if'n you wanna hotes (or host, if you don't need it to rhyme).

Sue you seen!

R

Lobsterpalooza 2012

It's that time of the SANE calendar where we gather together up north to give our thanks to the Great Clawed Ones, which we traditionally observe by consuming a representative sampling. This year we'll celebrate the 147th consecutive year we've celebrated together (not counting WWII, WWI, The Spanish American War a few of the Civil War years, and 1942, when we just plumb forgot. This year, we're holding Lobsterpalooza on Saturday, July 28, from 12ish to eveningish.

Like we've done every year, please email me with:

1) Are you attending?

If the answer is no, go straight to #6, below. We'll be sad you're not here, but that won't stop us from chatting about you, so let that be a little gentle pressure to come, if only to defend youself.
If your answer is yes (Yay!), please continue...

2) How many attendees in your party
3) How many lobsters your party wants to eat. There will be a charge per lobster, but the amount isn't fixed yet. It's cost.
4) How many servings of clamsters your party wants to gobble up.
5) What else you would like to bring, to complement lobsters, clams and granite.
6) Write a slogan for somebody you'd actually vote for for president (of something). The best slogan will be published in the Atlantic Monthly's Slogans and Other Election Hoopla issue.

Please send your replies to me, and when I get everyone's answer, I'll tabulate them and send the results along to Bootsy, and she can order the tables & chairs, order the clamsters, and handcraft all the traditioal lobster vests, Bermuda shorts, bow-ties and ski-masks. Oh yeah, order the lobsters, too. I almost forgot. Wow, if we forgot to order the lobsters, that would mean 1887 all over again!

So respond early & often, and we'll see y'all (all who are coming, anyway) on Saturday, July 28

The Lobsterpalooza 2012 Pre-Event Plenary Correspondence Sub-Committee

SANE meeting Tues 19 June - Tunnel Books

SANEsters,
Just a quick memory-jogger, and I'll get more info ASAP. We're making
tunnel books, so bring, I guess, bunches of tunnels and books, and
we'll glue them together. Okay, that was just a guess. More info as I
make it up.
R