Posted on April 12, 2008 by bookmoochjournals
This journal opens to my school photo from 1968. I’m wearing cat’s-eye glasses and a pea-green neon-striped mini-dress my Mom sewed for me. I was stylin’ and baby, I knew it.
The title is inspired by my favorite MST3K episode based on the 1967 movie Catalina Caper (aka Never Steal Anything Wet) starring Tommy Kirk, wherein Tom Servo falls in love with the new girl on the beach and sings a little song about her (”Creepy girl, creepy girl . . .”)
“Thank you, Tommy Kirk, for making us laugh at life—and love—again.”
bumuling
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and as stills:
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Posted on April 12, 2008 by bookmoochjournals
What Wildness lives in the mythic menagerie? Whatever animals, legendary, real or imagined, clutter your consciousness… free them here! Animal-esque Art. Mermaids and centaurs and sparrows and catapillars that frolic in an enchanted glade or crawl out from the closet… let them seep into these pages.
When the pages of our zoo 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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Posted on April 12, 2008 by bookmoochjournals
Include your favorite quotation by a woman. Any topic. Any woman. Illustrate it if you’d like. 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
More images:
as a slideshow:
and as stills:
Pg 1, Pg 2, Pg 3, Pg 4, Pg 5, Pg 6, Pg 7, Pg 8, Pg 9, Pg 10,
Pg 11
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Posted on April 12, 2008 by bookmoochjournals
Said after a particularly inspired expletive: “Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?” It’s amazing what that mouth might do. Singing, kissing, frown, smirk, laugh, bite, yawn, whisper, howl, yodel, gargle, spit and repeat. The single most expressive part of the body even without saying a word. Fill this art journal with visceral, visual imagery of mouths and lips and teeth. I’m thinking human but maybe a crocodile smile a-muse-s you. 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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Posted on April 12, 2008 by bookmoochjournals
Grimoire, book of shadows or whatever you choose to call it, witches ancient and modern, real or imagined have been keeping magickal diaries forever. Why? For the very reason that secrets are made to be shared. Share your favorite mystical recipes. No eye of newt, please. The modern witch’s ingredients might be gathered by moonlight from her own garden but more likely can be picked up cheaply at the neighborhood grocery. I was raised with the admonition “a witch who cannot curse cannot cure” alongside the more traditional “and it harm none, do what you will” so feel free to include the voodoo doll kit for a stingy boss or itchy feet curse for the ex-boyfriend as well as dream magick and candle-burning for world peace. We witches are very versatile. Strict no no’s: morbid evil fantasies, dungeon and dragons-isms, satanism (Satan is a Christian entity, think about it) or “repent diatribes”. This is of, for, and by witches (and wannabe witches and modern witch enthusiasts!)
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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Posted on April 12, 2008 by bookmoochjournals
This special BookMooch journal is a journal for the purpose of recording our stories of surviving the Zombie War. It is bound together with a copy of Max Brooks’ excellent oral history, World War Z for reading and reference purposes.
Today, every man, woman, and child alive carries within them such a tale of life-testing encounters. Preserving these stories is a task that we can undertake for future generations, and gives hope to the present.
Whether you choose to contribute your story in written or artistic form, I’m confident that you will give voice to your own experiences and stories.
This BookMooch Journal asks the question that every person has an answer for:
How did you survive the Zombie Wars?
When you have finished reading the book and journal, please re-add it to the BookMooch system so that another survivor can mooch it and carry the legacy forward. Please try to do this within two to three weeks, or post a comment to here to let the book owner know about the delay.
-mortaine
This journal has been kept by an inactive and unresponsive Bookmoocher.
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Posted on April 12, 2008 by bookmoochjournals
This art journal is devoted to exploration, celebration of the human form. 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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Posted on April 12, 2008 by bookmoochjournals
If you grew up as a groupie of Wonder Woman, She-hulk, Scarlet Witch, Lady Death, Catwoman, batgirl, (remember “Oh Mighty Isis?), Elektra you know the allure of the amazon superhero. Or maybe you have fan devotion to real-life heroic women Maya Angelou, Frida Kahlo, Golda Meier, Emma Goldman, etc. This is a revolution you can dance to. Honor your S/heros here. Or create your own supershero– what’s your power, your mission, your secret identity? 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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Posted on April 12, 2008 by bookmoochjournals
The image of a Unicorn is inspiring. Let it inspire you to reverence, irreverence or anything relevant to unicorns. Art, humor, short poetry/flash fiction, scholarly essay, or a list of your favorite unicorn movies or a quotation from your favorite unicorn book. 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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Posted on April 12, 2008 by bookmoochjournals
This is meant as an experiential tome rather than a how-to magick book. The idea is that the book itself IS magic. Art and play. Word/unword. Think outside the box. Live in the margins. Invent. Advise. Intuit. Worship. Dance in paper. See the movie “Prospero’s books” for inspiration.
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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