blather_red_book silentbob So apparently when we were signing up for names and stuff, order of who would get it and when...this aerial person took it upon herself to sign her name and then just break away all contact with the rest of the world. aerial - if you read this, do you still live in the same place? the book was sent to you. it was sent to the address i was given. if that adress was inacurate you should have told someone in advance... or something. otherwise i dunnno. i'm afraid the blather red book might be lost forever. 021119 ... peyton http://blather.newdream.net/red/t/the_blather_red_book.html 021120 ... Photophobe Red aariel= continuous ache/lovers lament on blue. haven't seem her blathe in a while... I sent her a message on icq, so if she ever comes online she'll contact me hopefully. 021122 ... silentbob HOLY SHIT!!! ITS AMBER???? I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THAT I can get a hold of her now 021122 ... jane silentbob, silentbob hero of the blather mob help to save blather_red_book he's got style, charm, and looks lookout! here comes the silent bob [to the tune of spiderman theme] 021122 ... Scarlet Photos Heh. Where oh where has amber gone? She don't respond to my messages no more... 021123 ... ShilohLives What is this about a blather book...sorry I'm kinda new but I'm REALLY interested!! 030612 ... x you're too late, i think 030612 ... ShilohLives damn 030613 ... cocoon ...Got lost along the way. 040609 ... notme let's start a new one, or something. 040609 ... notme a blue blather journey envelope is now circulating. how bout a red one? i could start one if people are interested, or if someone else wants to start one that's cool too. 040609 ... notme or a new book for that matter. 040609 ... crOwl the book sits wrapped up along with a card for jane on the dusty, stained, sun-faded dashboard of my ford 150. i had every intention of mailing it today. i even pulled into the norvelt, pennsylvania, (an insanely small town) post office, only to think i forgot jane's address in the pocket of my shorts now in the wash...t(urned out later it was in my wallet the whole time) needless to say...the post office is closed now and i will mail it tomorrow...fuck... sorry, jane_jane. i can only sincerely hope the contents will be worth your patient waiting... 071023 ... jane please don't worry about it. i don't mind waiting. i am hoping people will be patient with me. 071023 ... jane i just opened it! & it smells like cinnamon, & earth. & my heart is laughing with joy! i'll start working on it over the weekend {i'm a bit sick so staying in will be a good idea} & start scanning on monday. it occured to me as i was flipping through that some people might not want to see the lovliness until it is actually in their hands, & i'll keep that in mind when figuring out where to put the pictures. any suggestions? all my love to red blather.... ! 071026 ... jane no suggestions? {i've scanned th' book in , so far, without my additions yet.} 071028 ... crOwl art conspiracy? 071028 ... cocoon I dont know if it would be too much to upload the scans to a website somewhere and post the link. Those who want to look can look, those who dont can wait until they get the book. Could also zip the scans together and upload that as one file 071028 ... jane art conspiracy is a good one.. 071030 ... jane but i already have an account there, so i can't open another one with my email address.. 071030 ... jane cocoon, do you have any recommendations as to what website we should use? 071030 ... thorn you could maybe set up a photobucket account and give everyone the password or something 071030 ... jane already have photobucket too. :( i'm gonna use my flickr account, i'll upload them later tonight. 071030 ... jane alright folks, see if this works... http://www.flickr.com/photos/13607553@N08/sets/72157603051533061/ 071109 ... u24 wow. that's.... wow 071110 ... crOwl nice work jane. thanks for your skill, efforts and the generous gift of your time...i'm looking forward to seeing your addition to the book... 071110 ... jane i know i've had it for a while but i am still working on it. i hope flux (whose address i am still lacking) doesn't mind! :) 071110 ... jane alright, i finally finished my part ... many thanks to flux (& others) for your patience. i will be sure to send it out tomorrow. love, . 071209 ... jane p.s. my part is also scanned in to the flicr account so feel free to check it out, if you want to break the mysterious veil :) although the book scanned in is nothing like it is "in person." 071209 ... jane ahem, flickr. 071209 ... crOwl jane! i love your addition to the book as seen @ flickr. your design, color execution, ideas with the seasons and leaves, painting talent...all combine for a beautiful set. nice work, margaux! (thanks again for scanning it so we can all see it...) 071210 ... unhinged the book is awesome guys. (so many years ago i added to the blather_blue_book that mahayana started...i believe) or put a song on the blather_mixtape when bobby came to milwaukee to visit. oh_blather *sigh* did you know thorn that jeff_buckley was somewhat obsessed with rainer_maria_rilke ? rmr was german right? (am i thinking of the right person?) i very much like the buddha. yo_crowl thanks for adding a little piece of me to the blather_red_book. i think that may be our best story together square_the_circle . and it was nice to finally see your face and the face of your beautiful family. maybe it is a shame we didn't meet each other when i lived so close. but milwaukee is a much more interesting city than youngstown. :-) jane your paintings are amazing. i cannot begin to conceptualize what it takes to paint pictures and have always been awed by people that can. i am not so good with the more concrete and tactile mediums. even your doodling does something, goes somewhere. and thank you for posting the book also. i suppose that is enough with the gushfest for now. 071210 ... jane i physically took the book to the post office today & had it sent out. mr. flux, they told me it should take 2 to 3 days. please let us know when you get it! :D 071211 ... jane & unhinged, thank you, i needed the ego stroke. 071211 ... jane also, if you want me to paint you something, shoot me an email. i could use the inspiration. 071211 ... flux received ;) taking a sick day from work. plan was to work on deutsche hausarbeit & possibly laptop disassembly. then this arrived, scented clove red wrapped enticing, "leave less behind for the future". thank you. mm. what to play, what to play.. 071213 ... jane isn't it exciting‽ 071213 ... IGG oooooo please might i join this blather book? I have always wished to join either the red or the blue book, but never (oddly enough) had the courage. it would be greatly appreciated. 071214 ... flux i'm ready to send it on. tessa, address? 080225 ... jane yay! can't wait to scan in another bunch of entries!! 080225 ... tessa flux should now have my address (!) I'm feeling excited and scared. And I'm not sure if I'm ready. Or worthy. But that's how it's supposed to feel, isn't it? 080225 ... jane well you are definitely worthy. & if you're not ready right away, you are allowed to take the time for inspiration. 080226 ... flux out out out it goes the mail people said it would arrive by friday. 080301 ... past i_dreamt_that_i_dreamt 080302 ... flux i miss it already, and its call to create. i need to start writing letters to old friends again. i know they'd like to hear from me. 080302 ... tessa received it smells delicious 080305 ... jane does it still smell like cinnamon nutmeg & dreams? 080305 ... tessa oh yes it's perfect 080306 ... tessa oh yes it's perfect 080306 ... jane what's goin' on with this, folks? 080403 ... thorn yeah, i was wondering that myself. 080403 ... tessa sorry a bit blocked coming 080404 ... jane not trying to put any pressure on ya, t. just checking in. :) 080405 ... jane wow - i think that's the first time i've ever used an emoticon on blather 080405 ... now_now not wanting to step on toes, but could I get put on the red book list? I'd love to contribute something! 080406 ... jane NO. just kidding. 080407 ... jane where would you like to be put on the list? 080407 ... now_now Lame. You're so mean to me jane. What have I ever done to you? ...except ruthlessly antagonize you at every opportunity [it's from a place of love. I SWEAR]. heh. List placement is up to you. 080407 ... jane well i put you at the end for now(_now)... but if we are in fact doing the thing where i get the book every third person... since you live so close to me, we'll slip you in there somehow. if that's okay with everyone else. votes? thoughts? complaints? haikus? 080407 ... raze the fortunate few who have wine glasses for hands leak red from their mouths 080407 ... crOwl handmade book of love available to me and you come home from england 080408 ... t home from england? why is england necessarily not it's home? how can something like this book be from anywhere, belong to anywhere? --- ok, I think I need to be given a deadline. I've had it for too long. 080515 ... tessa home from england? why is england necessarily not it's home? how can something like this book be from anywhere, belong to anywhere? --- ok, I think I need to be given a deadline. I've had it for too long. 080515 ... jane cocoon is next.. got a deadline, C? 080515 ... cr0wl the book belongs to thorn who lives in the state of virginia, usa. 080515 ... tessa sorry, I just can't agree that the book belongs to anyone, anywhere. 080515 ... tessa The book was purchased and provided by thorn, for which I am very grateful. It has passed through many hands and many places, and will hopefully pass through many more. It has no single owner, no one origin, no one definable identity. Sometimes it is an amazing manifestation of a cyber community. Sometimes its just some smelly, gluey paper bound together and passed around a odd assortment of people. Of course, you are free to understand and talk about the book in any way you like. I'm just exercising my right of reply, explaining how I see it. 080516 ... thorn i don't think the book belongs to me, i bought it and would love to keep it when it's full, but it doesn't _belong_ to me any more than it does anyone else who worked on it. 080516 ... jane i agree that the book belongs to everyone who contributes. to avoid any conflicts i offered to scan in the pages so that we could all share it simultaneously. there doesn't need to be any debate over who owns it at all, unless said debate is simply for debate's sake, or philosophizing purposes. i likes file-o-sophie. 080516 ... cr0wl perhaps tessa should mail it to jane for scanning that we may all see the new additions... 080516 ... cross referencer the_blather_red_book 080516 ... jane i think every third person is good enough. i'll take it after cocoon, if that's okay with tessa. 080516 ... cocoon hey, look at that. havent had time to look on here for a while and what do i find :) tessa: if you still want a deadline, i'd say end of the month? i'll email you my address before then. 080517 ... cocoon okay, you dont have an email address tessa, so if you email me and i can give you my address? 080605 ... tessa I did email you a few weeks ago, no response. It was to a hotmail address? 080605 ... cocoon ah, sorry. for some reason blather wont change my email address and i dont really use the hotmail one anymore. ill check it now and get back to you... 080605 ... flux wonder's where this is @? 080725 ... jane bumping this up. keep it bumped until we've got a response, would you all? lovies. 080903 ... tessa i'm so sorry lots of reasons (grandmother, boyfriend, illness, travel, work), no excuses it's not finished but i'll send it tomorrow 080903 ... jane how much more do you have to go? i personally would rather you finish in the next couple weeks or so than to send it unfinished. not sure if anyone agrees with me but that is my 2cents 080904 ... bird i say finish if you can, then send it. 080904 ... thorn i agree 080904 ... tessa it's sent kind of finished maybe one day if i am forgiven it will come back to me and i can finish it will the blather red book ever be finished? 080906 ... jane when people stop signing up, it's time limit will be finite. i seem to remember from all the blather_books in the past that there is always an argument on where it ends up; who gets it, that is. i say we jump off that bridge when we get to it. 080906 ... cocoon !!! I have a blather red book heading my way. I am excited. 080907 ... i have a linking addiction the_blather_red_book 080907 ... referencer thorn - done crOwl - done jane - done flux - done tessa - sending cocoon native_persimmon birdmad IGG now_now eatingstars suicidalchinadoll 080907 ... native_persimmon Can't wait for my turn. . . 080908 ... cocoon Got it. Whoever made it smell so nice gets cookies. 080910 ... jane depends on what it smells like. when it arrived at my house it smelled like nutmeg and earth. i put some spiced oil on it to perpetuate the smell. not sure if others followed suit. 080910 ... cr0wl i love cookies...thanks! 080910 ... thorn how goes the book? 081108 ... native_persimmon yes, how goes?? 081108 ... cocoon its going. have some ideas, some bits and pieces. i really just need to sit down and put it together though. next weekend probably.. 081109 ... jane how does december sound to pass it on? no pressure, just asking. 081109 ... cocoon hmm. december should be good. at least that will push me to actually start working on it as opposed to just coming up with ideas. am i sending it back to you or is it going to the next person in line? 081110 ... jane where are you, and where is native_persimmon? if you guys are close to each other, i say skip me. but if you want me to scan in more, by all means i would be happy to. i won't have much to do in december, and i would of course love to see the newest additions! 081110 ... jane how's it coming? 081204 ... cocoon am working on it this weekend, aaaand, hopefully it should be done after that! 081204 ... native_persimmon Full disclosure: Starting next week I'll be traveling and away from my mailbox for 6 weeks - if the next person wants to switch places with me in line that would be fine with me! 081205 ... ? birdmad to jane to native_persimmon? 081205 ... cocoon I dont know if anyone will mind, but if IGG is still in the UK, thats closer, and the book can then finish its European journey before heading back to the US? 081206 ... . that's smart, but IGG should confirm... 081206 ... cocoon Hmm. They dont have an email address so I dont know. I guess I'll just check back when Im ready to post and see which way its going.. 081207 ... jane when was the last time she was on? 081207 ... . 071214...about a year ago. 081207 ... rt how about letting cocoon finish and when she's ready to mail it if IGG hasn't responded...send it to bird? 081207 ... . or jane then bird? 081207 ... . poor Jane will be spending a lot on postage if we mail it to her after every person. . . 081207 ... . poor Jane will be spending a lot on postage if we mail it to her after every person. . . 081207 ... .. poor Jane will be spending a lot on postage if we mail it to her after every person. . . 081207 ... .. poor Jane will be spending a lot on postage if we mail it to her after every person. . . 081207 ... .. poor Jane will be spending a lot on postage if we mail it to her after every person. . . 081207 ... .. Oh sorry!! 081207 ... jane we're not doing every person. we're doing every third/fourth person. i can deal with the postage, although donations towards paying bills will be accepted. 081208 ... cocoon After a fun day of sitting on the floor with scissors, paper, glue (two gluesticks which apparently are so old they barely work, and one just turned into a rubbery pile of gloop), colourful pens and some sellotape, I'm done. Who's next? 081213 ... suicidalchinadoll this never did come to me. if it still exists, someone say so! and don't email me at the address I have used here...years ago I lost the password. i'll disclose an email at a later date. 090711 ... IGG hey guys tis IGG here, sorry i've not been on for a while, i didn't think it would be coming to me so soon! who needs my email addy? or has the book already gone past me? hi again red blatherskites, it has been a while... 090804 ... rt does birdmad have it? 090805 ... jane according to the_blather_red_book, bird got it in march. i recall he is in arizona - would you all mind if i got it first in order to scan, prior to sending it along to IGG? 090805 ... cr0wl great idea...you'll give us a chance to see all that has been added... thanks margaux. 090805 ... birdmad couple of things left i need to do and it will be on its way as soon as i can send it 090806 ... jane thanks, O:bird - let me know if you need my address. 090807 ... jane just checking in... 100203 ... thorn somehow today i found my way back to blather for the first time in months/years, and what should be on the recent page but this? i remember buying the book, and what i put in it, and i'm thinking of how i would change it. i'm also thinking of how different my life is now. everything changes so much. 100203 ... bird my reworking is almost complete.. 3 more weeks 100204 ... silentbob I would get in on this whenever it gets to me. I am in Chicago, for anyone keeping track (although why would you) 100216 ... jane 3 weeks? ;) 100305 ... jane how's it going, Bird? 100312 ... j bump! 100322 ... yay for jane! the queen of the_blather_red_book! 100510 ... leni does it live? 141211 ... raze i'm not sure where it ended up last, but evidence of its insides lives here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blatherredbook/ 141211 ... e_o_i Wow. That's cool and wonderfully collaborative. I like how it all fits together. Especially, I noticed the blather red logo printed on textured paper and jane's art deco leaves. But it is all interesting and it's too bad I can't magnify it more to read all the writing. 141211 ... leif the blather journey envelope project was cool too. 141212 ... blather_red_book_updates 141229 ... raze i think this deserves a bit of a bump. just took a look at that flickr link for the first time in years, and i'm feeling wowed all over again. 210905 what's it to you? who go blather from