Cool, it's so gigantic that half of the photograph is getting cut off by my sidebar, but I like it anyway. You can click on it to see the full size without getting cut off. And by full size, I should mention, that even this is only 25% of the real full size photo on my computer.
The first printing of the cookbook is done (and almost already sold out).
Nearly a year of learning how to take food photographs, learning how to format a book and here it is...
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| From Good Carb Cookbook Arrives |
Doesn't look like it in the pictures, but it's huge. More than a foot tall.
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| From Good Carb Cookbook Arrives |
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| From Good Carb Cookbook Arrives |
Next up, I'm working on a photo book of our recent trip to Italy. Took over a thousand pictures in the full quality RAW format I took for the cookbook. Got it down to 600 at the moment and gotta keep cutting until I can edit them without going insane.
Then, I'll be participating in the writer's workshop over at Chuck Palahniuk's site in hopes of getting into an anthology Chuck plans on releasing. Was in final consideration for their first attempt at an anthology but the whole project fell through back then. This time, Chuck has vowed to release it himself. I'll be writing a dirty teleportation story.
Then I'll most likely write that whole lioness screenplay I keep talking about.
Right now, the cookbook is exclusively available here.
Hey, there is this company called Blik that makes wall decals, some of them from Threadless designs. Right now, Elise's 217 Finicky Fish is in contention to become a set of wall decals to decorate your wall and or face.
You can vote for them to "Blik" her design at http://whatisblik.com/threadless/vote.html
I don't know if they actually pay her to sell these decals, or if that's just part of the Threadless contract, but it would be cool to see nonetheless!
Also, the shirt version of said design is pretty much sold out in case you fit into what's left and don't want to miss out. I guess the demand was pretty good for it, as it never got discounted to $10 or $5 in the major sale Threadless has been doing for the past couple weeks.
Also, we quit our jobs and I'll be writing a book or two next year after all.
We won first place at our work's costume contest, for my Michael Jackson and Elise's Little Boy costume. I chased her around the party with a bag of Skittles.
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| From Halloween 2008 |
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| From Halloween 2008 |
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| From Halloween 2008 |
Then we left the party and I puked into a bag the whole ride home. Then, it turned out that the bag had a hole in it and it was leaking my puke all over the $100 prize money that we won.
It's been a good week.
I finished work on the cookbook I've been doing for the past six months. (That's where I've been.) I'll have to see how much I'm allowed to say about that, because I would love to explain the process of designing a cookbook, why it was the batshit craziest amount of work I've ever agreed to and why I went nearly half a year past deadline.
In the midst of finishing up the book, I picked a good week to jump into the stock market. This was Monday, mind you, and I'm thinking that the market's already crashed so this would be a good time to jump in. Then five consecutive days of crashing and I get out $350 down. In the scheme of things, I'm insanely lucky for being so insanely stupid. It was Sirius XM Satellite Radio stock and I'll probably jump right back on that shit on Monday if I have another stupid streak. Sirius is trading for around 40 cents a share right now if you have the balls to sit and watch your money slowly disappear until the world can either fix itself or crumble back to sea shell currency. They have the second most subscribers of any entertainment service in the country, right behind Comcast cable, yet they're still completely in the dumps.
This was also the week that I called the police for the first time. Coincidentally, it was also the first week that Elise and I stood behind two police officers as they pushed into the apartment across from us with two guns drawn. The abandoned apartment's door was open two inches, despite being vacant and foreclosed upon (gee, I wonder if it was a good week to jump into the stock market?) for over a year. In the end, there was no sign that anyone had ever been inside. But it was cool nonetheless. I found it strange that the police officer let us stand right out in the open even though it was a situation that required them to draw guns. We just stood there, five feet away, watching. They drew their guns and raised them to the open door, then one of them said, "Did you hear that OJ was found guilty?" Then they lowered their guns and spoke about OJ for a minute. Then they raised their guns and someone came over the walkie talkie, "Did you hear about OJ?" Then they lowered their guns again and told the person on the walkie talkie that they had to do a search.
Later that night, one of the stray cats outside was jumping up and grabbing that apartment's doorknob. Batting at it. Grabbing it. The stray cat most definitely opened the door.
Thank you to everyone that voted! Elise's 217 Finicky Fish shirt was printed over at Threadless today! It's on sale for $12 if you're a girl too.
Up for voting soon...
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