One of my favorite books is Unleashed: Poems by Writer’s Dogs, edited by Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard. I see there are a couple of pet-oriented journals circulating, and I wonder if my own pets, and maybe yours, would like to get in on the act. I know my current dog at least likes the TASTE of books. I’ve started the journal with a poem my husband wrote for our dog, “A Poem for Our Dog of Little Brain.”
-bumuling
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Please tell a short story, draw a picture, post a photo, write a poem, or anything you like about something that made you happy.
-blueforestjo
Note: This journal was marked LOST on 9 Apr 08.
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I like to grow flowers in my garden. Please post a picture of the flowers in your garden – recommend some flowers!
-blueforestjo
This journal has been completed and returned to its creator.
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The title of this blank book comes from the poem CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR by Edna St. Vincent Millay (see excerpt below). This book should be filled with your favorite anti-war poem, quotation, slogan, folk song. Illustrate them if you wish. Feel free to include original poetry, prose and personal experiences of pro-peace activism. Use as much space as you like, it’s a big book.
“I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death;
I am not on his pay-roll.
I will not tell him the whereabout of my friends
nor of my enemies either.
Though he promise me much,
I will not map him the route to any man’s door.
Am I a spy in the land of the living,
that I should deliver men to Death?”
When the pages of this journal are filled, please return it to bookmooch user: zenfish. Thank you.
RE: Birthday Books vol 1-41. I was very excited to read about the bookmooch journal project as I usually celebrate my birthday with art/performance art madness related to the number in question. In August I will be a delightful 41 years wild. I have purchased 41 blank journals and am giving each individual themes. When all the wayward art has winged its way home to me, I look forward to a local celebration to share and enjoy these books with friends.
-zenfish
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Valkries and Harpies and Fairies, oh my! I have always had a fetish for those winged women. Angelic or Demonic, the solitary power of outstretched wings ready to take flight is simultaneously spiritual and sensual, animalistic and sublime, in my imagination. Whether visions of Rackham wood nymphs or Shakespeare’s Titania or the crippled angel whose wings were filled with stellar-lice in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story “a Very Old Man with enormous wings” spring to mind, let your imagination fly freely in these pages! Art (any style) and short poetry or flash fiction only please. When the pages are filled, send her flying back to bookmooch user: zenfish. Thank you.
RE: Birthday Books vol 1-41. I was very excited to read about the bookmooch journal project as I usually celebrate my birthday with art/performance art madness related to the number in question. In August I will be a delightful 41 years wild. I have purchased 41 blank journals and am giving each individual themes. When all the wayward art has winged its way home to me, I look forward to a local celebration to share and enjoy these books with friends.
-zenfish
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Just what it sounds like. Include your favorite quotation and illustrate it. Collage, calligraphy, doodle, cartography, in the style of luminous biblical script, hieroglyphs, photographs, in the style of a ransom note with letters ripped from magazines? Limited only by your imagination. When the pages of this journal are filled, please return it to bookmooch user: zenfish. Thank you.
RE: Birthday Books vol 1-41. I was very excited to read about the bookmooch journal project as I usually celebrate my birthday with art/performance art madness related to the number in question. In August I will be a delightful 41 years wild. I have purchased 41 blank journals and am giving each individual themes. When all the wayward art has winged its way home to me, I look forward to a local celebration to share and enjoy these books with friends.
-zenfish
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This is an old “Far Side” day calendar. Cover the calendar pages (and any other space that is not sporting a cartoon) with your favorite jokes, cartoons, comics, etc. Scribble in the margins. Graffiti every blank space with your favorite goofs and guffaws. When the pages of this journal are filled, please return it to bookmooch user: zenfish. Thank you.
RE: Birthday Books vol 1-41. I was very excited to read about the bookmooch journal project as I usually celebrate my birthday with art/performance art madness related to the number in question. In August I will be a delightful 41 years wild. I have purchased 41 blank journals and am giving each individual themes. When all the wayward art has winged its way home to me, I look forward to a local celebration to share and enjoy these books with friends.
-zenfish
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as a slideshow:
and as stills:
Pg 1, Pg 2, Pg 3, Pg 4, Pg 5, Pg 6, Pg 7
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Hypnotic eyes at your bedroom window. Vampires are the
sexiest of movie monsters. Put your phantasm-tic art
fantasy to paper. Why not paint Anita Blake surrounded
by her harem of preternatural hotties? Collage a
shrine to Bram Stroker’s creature. Pencil a portrait
of your favorite Masquerade player. Ink a Nosferatu.
Queen of the Damned? Carmilla? Elisabeth Bathory? What
dark lord/lady will you draw from the “dark shadows”
of your imagination? Sexy, silly or scary… surprise
me with your vamp fandom. (Text within art okay but NO
fiction or poetry!) Thanks/fangs and good luck to all
my fellow vampriphiliacs and vampriphiles out there.
When the pages of this journal are filled, please
return it to bookmooch user: zenfish. Thank you.
RE: Birthday Books vol 1-41. I was very excited to
read about the bookmooch journal project as I usually
celebrate my birthday with art/performance art madness
related to the number in question. In August I will be
a delightful 41 years wild. I have purchased 41 blank
journals and am giving each individual themes. When
all the wayward art has winged its way home to me, I
look forward to a local celebration to share and enjoy
these books with friends.
-zenfish
It appears either this journal was never issued or it was retained by its first mooche inactive for more than two years.
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