Paul Merrill
Volume Inc. has a unique contest of sorts. If you send them a hand-made thank you card, you may be among the 100 winners to receive a poster.
I couldn’t resist that.
My poster came last week – hand-signed and numbered!
Special thanks to Alan, who told me of the contest.
The other day, I was reflecting on a great book I loved when I was a kid – Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead, by William Pene Du Bois. It’s a fun tale of a spoiled kid who had everything done for him – until things went wrong. The illustrations of Mr. Pene Du Bois were partly responsible for my choice of career.
I thought how fun it would be to share the book with my third-grader. Alas, it’s priced out of my range. Finding out made me wish I had hung onto everything from my childhood. (But the practical side of me said I couldn’t pay the storage warehouse fees.)
These days, publishers are having to be even more choosy about which titles they reprint, so I don’t fault them.
By the way, his most popular title, The Twenty-One Balloons, is in print – and you can get it for about $4 shipped via Amazon.
When I saw this photo of the Queen of England shaking hands with Lady Gaga, my main thought was – who is the person who plans her schedule? That person needs to be fired.
Lady Gaga, for those of you who don’t know, is one of the latest pop sensations. Or better stated, she was the pop sensation on the day the January 21st edition of Rolling Stone magazine was printed. And also for the unaware, she is not much of a lady, from what little I’ve read.
Bustedtees sells this shirt. I thought it was pretty funny. (They sell other funny tees too.)
And of course Threadless has some very creative shirts – along with the fact that you can submit a design that may be printed! (I got my brother a Threadless shirt for Christmas.)
You gotta check out my son’s video. It’s hilarious, if you want my completely unbiased opinion.
