book signing and 4th opening reception in our 4th location...

today's tarot card: star.
direction. fruition. transformation.

upcoming events at the main street museum:
book signing by Robyn Chapman, fellow at the center for cartoon studies, and editor of
/True Porn II/
main street museum at 58 bridge street, white river junction.
saturday, 29th october, 5 -- 7 p.m. wine, cheese. open to the public (but due to the cartoons' eyebrow-raising nature -- 18+ please)

and, simultaneously with this fabulous and sophisticated event, theres another fabulous and sophisticated event -- the reopening of javier cintron's show of prints and paintings

reopening reception for javier cintron
"pictures from the rio blanco social club collection"
saturday, 29th october, 5 -- 7 p.m. wine, cheese, cats and llamas. dogs welcome. open to the public.

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we are honored to have the CCS, the center for cartoon studies library, as our neighbor in the renovated 19th fire station. we are also honored to host robyn and to celebrate her funny, culturally relevant anthology of cartoonists' real-life sexual experiences. its just been reviewed by the village voice. here's an excerpt:

I'm not really sure whether Suicide Girls' Daniel Robert Epstein's assertion that "cartoonists have the most fucked-up sex life" is true, but the ones whose work is printed here ... have turned their art into catharsis, taking time to laugh at (or about), mock, or simply isolate a moment in their sexual histories, rendered as absurdly, accurately, or adorably as they (care to) recall. TP addresses many of the sexual dilemmas people face: Am I normal? Why won't she sleep with me? What will the first time I (insert wild sex act here) be like?

Manning Leonard Krull's "Ménage à Duh" is my favorite piece. He portrays himself as a lovably dorky punk rocker, complete with mohawk, tattoos, and piercings, who manages to evade three different threesomes with hot girls—his thought bubbles ("Fuck fuck fuck stupid stupid stupid stupid") and cluelessness are amusing and adorable, showing the other side of "every man's fantasy." If you've ever thought, "I can't believe this is happening" in bed, True Porn will show you that you're not alone.

see review by Lusty Lady at
www.villagevoice.com/people/0539,bussel,68184,24.html
or visit
http://www.rachelkramerbussel.com/

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javier cintron's work has been seen at venues from el museo del barrio in nyc, galleries in nyc, mexico city, the dominican republic and beyond. he has added several new pieces to his show here at the museum -- a show that features buildings and scenes of white river jct and views of san juan, burlington, VT, and new york.
the artist's extensive journals span three continents and form the basis of many of his finished artworks -- both collage and prints on paper and paintings on canvas.
his woodblock prints and collage have recently been seen at the two rivers printmaking studio where he teaches courses in printmaking and paper conservation.
this will mark the second opening of sr. cintron's work here.
the museum has had four locations around town, and this is the fourth grand-opening in our present and final location -- the former fire station of rio blanco. perhaps 4 x 4 = well, we wont delve into numerology, but the 4th times a charm and we would be charmed to see you down here.

please join us for these events and then march in the downtown's annual halloween parade at 7 p.m.

for more information hit reply, or call
802.356.2776

may it please you, the management, main street museum --david fairbanks ford.

from time to time i will announce things here.
if its a real live museum blog there should be announcements, right?
here's the very first one:

true crimes and misdemeanors in white river junction...
this coming saturday the main street museum is proud to announce a history tour of white river jct. -- a true crimes and misdemeanors tour -- lead by local author and photographer eric francis.
many have seen this man scratch his red-haired head at the scene of a crime. more often than not, however, you may have seen him just standing around downtown rio blanco, scratching his head waiting for a crime to happen. this is his usual aspect; and because of this he is "in the know" about the local scene; the joys the sorrows, the hundred acts of kindness -- and the very occasional horrific and blood curdling atrocity -- that go on every day here and make white river junction what it is to so many of us -- Home.
our own unique version of a foliage tour begins at the hotel coolidge lobby at 4:30 p.m.
saturday 15 october, 2005
we will "go on a bender" down south main street and discuss illegal gaming, prohibition and intoxication in general
after this we will cruise past the "filling station" saloon, where we may loose some of our crew. o well. these things happen.
at this point we might describe the railroads and read charles cummings 1933 description of the "riot on gates street"
circling around the coolidge to the site of teddys hotel and the "adam's pool hall" on north main street we will get "rounded up" by the "law" as we end up at the old fire station -- site of the police switchboard, within sight of the municipal building with its historic basement jail cell. the fire station and the town offices both abut the bridge, a bridge made famous by falling into the water a few times through the 20th century and by the "mind benders" biker gang who took it over in the early 1970's.
a wine and cheese reception will be offered at the fire station, 58 bridge street, at 5:30 -- 7 p.m.
please join us for this free public event!
--the management

the red sox, chicharrones, and the king of pentangles -- reversed.
the red sox are won the wild card slot in the american league playoffs last night. the same lowly place where they resided last year at this time; and last year they went on to win the world series. hopeful thought. on the other hand, the last time the red sox won two consecutive world series was 1915-16. that was a long, long time ago.
it was unusually warm tonight. javier and i sat on the river bank at the fire station enjoying the fuzzy fall light as i finished off setting stones into the patio out back, a patio that will host a horde of revelers on the annual halloween parade in white river -- downtown rio blanco. every year the parade ends at the former fire station where i am installing a museum. there is a troll that lives under the bridge. a very very ugly troll. he either ignores or scares the children, but he pays a lot of attention to their dads. what's up with that?
matt came by and stole software from me. in exchange i rubbed his neck. he loves this.
later javier made chicharrones for us for dinner, with garlic cheese tortelloni. españa meets italia. whats the difference between tortellini and tortelloni? i don' know, im just curious.
when i drew one card from the tarot, it was the king of pentangles, reversed. the description was all about old blow-hards whove welched on their debts to me. i cant figure that out. probably, it is part of myself the card referenced. i must remember to query myself further on the subject.
the unelected current presidential administration is trying to appoint a lawyer to replace justice o'conner who has leader of opposition to legalized abortion. tom delay was indicted for a second time on money laundering charges. so many charges, so much stays the same.
the chicharrones were yummy -- loaded with adobo. i love adobo.

its late sunday. the cats are inside the museum now. flower was the last one to wander in as it got cold and the air became damp.
there are three museum cats. i will take pictures and show you what they look like. people love pictures of cats. sure to get lots of comments.
im also going to post items on this blog about politics, history, random thoughts, and zombies. in fact, heres a tidbit:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
these things spark less interest than cats, but the private life of zombies -- and an academic essay on their existence -- how great is that?
but now im very tired, and im going to bed. thank god for wxnd, a really really wonderful local radio station that im listening to right now. god bless everything local actually.
the 1967 cadillac is parked under the deck in back of the fire station.
im biking home and enjoying the stars.