Friday, May 7, 2010
Free E-Books, Why?
SHARE When you believe that this is the age of the e-book and that for all kinds of environmental and artistic reasons that is all we should be reading, then you have to put your money where your heart is.

       Thursday, March 18, 2010
I suspend all party allegiances
SHARE The other day I wrote about not wanting to be part of any party. I re-affirm that today. Yet if there is no party, what to do to register disgust and frustration with a system that is too dysfunctional to respond to its citizens' needs?

       Monday, March 15, 2010
Cheneys' Lies for Profit
SHARE If it were not so sick, I would truly applaud the family work the Cheneys do. But their efforts to terrorize this country are not to keep us safe, but to increase their own net worth. Never has such an unappealing group of looters fed so profitably at the public trough.

(11 comments)        Saturday, March 13, 2010
Please, no more invites to any parties
SHARE I would never be invited to a Tea Party convention, but have been invited to many Coffee Party and other so-called anti-tea party meetings. I respectfully refuse to go. This is no time to be partying. If we dance in the streets while the world is dying, we should be ashamed of ourselves.

       Monday, March 1, 2010
All they want is my money and time
SHARE The rate at which I am bombarded with requests for donations and time is unbelievable and in my case, I am unable to deliver on any requests. Too many good causes, too many people to write to and where is this money and time supposed to come from? I work all day and night for a new company I have started. No income, no time, yet that is all that is asked of me--they want my money and they want my free time. How did we get to this point?

       Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Women, Murder and Madness
SHARE Reading the news reports about Dr. Amy Bishop it seems to never be mentioned that Dr. Bishop maybe insane. Maybe not in the legal sense but certainly something went terribly wrong inside her. Why do we never want to discuss mental illness and murder?

       Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Best time ever to be a reader
SHARE I just read a glowing opinion piece in the Hufffington Post about why this time is the best time to be a reader. In many ways, I agree. Though for lots more reasons than were given. For one, this is a parallel lesson we are learning about corporate greed and control.

       Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Getting the word out about jobs and poverty
SHARE No matter how much time we spend bashing each other over certain policy issues, the bottom line is this--too many people live in poverty in this country and around the world and too much money is being handed over to people who seem to be morally bankrupt.

       Thursday, January 28, 2010
Howard Zinn and J. D. Salinger, RIP
SHARE The older guard is leaving us and the younger one is now being asked to take up the reins. Yet, when we think of these two masters of very different genres, the facts remain, reading is one of the most important parts of our lives and we need to be fed the good stuff or our Democracy will die.

       Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Say it--The Plague of Poverty
SHARE The problem is not the lost middle class, the problem is there is no middle class left. We have a plague of poverty sweeping across the country but no one in government has the guts to address that issue. It is not about color but about shame.

       Thursday, January 14, 2010
We want our culture back--Jobs for Book Lovers, 10
SHARE While many rightly want their money back from the banks that stole it, we also want our culture back from the same corporate models that stole it from us. We are fed a poor gruel of bad films, derivative books, unimaginative music and at the same time told to pay for it. Well no more.

       Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Working for us all--Jobs for Book Lovers, 9
SHARE We had originally wanted to call the Itinerant Book Show, Reading for Democracy, but that sounded not at all like what we were doing. Yet in terms of the concept, it is precisely what we are doing.

       Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Jobs for Book Lovers, Part 8
SHARE A new year means a new dedication to the tasks we at Sullivan Street Press have set up to recruit and train a national sales force of Bookies. These are the people who will travel throughout their communities in order to sell the books of the independent presses they know and love and to talk about the new publishing paradigm.

       Wednesday, December 23, 2009
We received lots of responses to our Jobs for Book Lovers
SHARE But we are not finished yet. We want to encourage as many as possible to see the value in becoming a Bookie. Selling books in your community is not just a job but a way to keep this very fragile democracy alive. While the right wing tries to dumb everything down, we need to make sure the independent presses and the voices they support are able to survive.

(1 comments)        Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Offering jobs to book lovers is not an empty promise
SHARE We would love to have the problem that 15 people a day write to us asking how they too can become a Bookie and sell books, talk about books and make money. That is a problem we would like to have.

(3 comments)        Sunday, December 20, 2009
It is getting very scary these days
SHARE The world as we may have known it 20-30 years ago has changed in many violent and radical ways that are not about to be altered soon. Yet, for all of that change, none of it good, there is one thing I am so happy about but makes me even more concerned: Having married my partner and being out in a society that now talks about killing gays as if we were some kind of pest or weed in the garden.

       Thursday, December 17, 2009
Jobs for Book Lovers, Part 7
SHARE Everyday we are learning new lessons about what kinds of jobs people need. From the perspective of my new publishing company, I am trying to hook people up not just with the books we would like to see sold but with their communities. Responding to the needs of one's community is a valuable lesson and a way to help create a sustainable entrepreneurial base.

       Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Take that boring job and make it--fun
SHARE The key to making a bad job into a good job is knowing how to capture what is good in the every day and turn it into a way to both make connections and make some money.

(1 comments)        Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Becoming a Bookie and Getting a Job, Part 5
SHARE Meeting up with neighbors in the hallways of my building, I begin to realize just how many people right around me are unemployed. It takes its toll as one person describes sinking into alcoholism and the long climb back. Well, we have jobs for those who love books. We are here to help and to help those who publish as well.

(1 comments)        Monday, December 7, 2009
More ideas about Jobs, Part 4
SHARE There are so many reasons to be grateful when you can have a new business that can actually help others while at the same time putting some new ideas out there about the new publishing paradigm.