Dream Whip #14 by Bill Brown
Product Description
A brilliant little book of adventures and thought of Bill Brown. Although small, the book is thick (344 pages!) and the handwritten text and occasional drawings help make this a quick, fun read. My favorite part was about his ride on cargo freighter (see inset).
This book was published by Microcosm Publishing. Here's what they have to say:Doubling the size of the previous issue and graduating from the days of rubber band binding, Bill Brown treats us with so much magic inside the cover of this handwritten object of pocket-sized art. Bill just completed work on the film "The Other Side" which documents the work of activist groups who comb the desert for Mexican immigrants into the US, providing them with safe rides, water, and food. Many of his experiences and observations are captured here similarly. A wandering philosopher, he tells us funny stories and anecdotes - St. Roch, the patron saint of lost causes, whose church is littered with discarded crutches and prosthetic limbs. "I begin to wonder if the body parts St Roch cured stayed strong and healthy, even as the rest of the person who was healed grew old and frail." We are also treated to the tale of Mother Goose, an older lady who wears a long skirt and floppy sunbonnet who storms into local restaurants and sings nursery rhymes until someone kicks her out. "In Austin it was impossible to go on a simple errand without falling in love. Every time I mailed a letter or went to buy a loaf of bread, I'd end up with a broken heart." and "Jerry makes me hold [an instrument] before he tells me it's an indian hunting club made from an Alaskan walrus penis bone." His way of explaining things is simultaneously laugh out loud funny as well as engrossing and captivating. This is gold. 100% Post-consumer paper and soy inks (because we care). ISBN 0-9770557-8-7
An excerpt about hitching a ride on a cargo ship across the Atlantic: "My cabin has a bed and a couch and a coffee table that's bolted to the floor. Those bolts worry me. They mean there are days on this ship when the furniture needs bolting down. I slept on the couch last night. Maybe that's out of habit. Maybe because I'm more comfortable on couches...I consider sleeping on the couch every night, like I'm couch surfing across the Atlantic Ocean. That's a couch surfer's dream, all all, catching a ride on some couch that'll take you around the world, like some slacker Magellan, mooching a circumnavigation."
This book was published by Microcosm Publishing. Here's what they have to say:Doubling the size of the previous issue and graduating from the days of rubber band binding, Bill Brown treats us with so much magic inside the cover of this handwritten object of pocket-sized art. Bill just completed work on the film "The Other Side" which documents the work of activist groups who comb the desert for Mexican immigrants into the US, providing them with safe rides, water, and food. Many of his experiences and observations are captured here similarly. A wandering philosopher, he tells us funny stories and anecdotes - St. Roch, the patron saint of lost causes, whose church is littered with discarded crutches and prosthetic limbs. "I begin to wonder if the body parts St Roch cured stayed strong and healthy, even as the rest of the person who was healed grew old and frail." We are also treated to the tale of Mother Goose, an older lady who wears a long skirt and floppy sunbonnet who storms into local restaurants and sings nursery rhymes until someone kicks her out. "In Austin it was impossible to go on a simple errand without falling in love. Every time I mailed a letter or went to buy a loaf of bread, I'd end up with a broken heart." and "Jerry makes me hold [an instrument] before he tells me it's an indian hunting club made from an Alaskan walrus penis bone." His way of explaining things is simultaneously laugh out loud funny as well as engrossing and captivating. This is gold. 100% Post-consumer paper and soy inks (because we care). ISBN 0-9770557-8-7
An excerpt about hitching a ride on a cargo ship across the Atlantic: "My cabin has a bed and a couch and a coffee table that's bolted to the floor. Those bolts worry me. They mean there are days on this ship when the furniture needs bolting down. I slept on the couch last night. Maybe that's out of habit. Maybe because I'm more comfortable on couches...I consider sleeping on the couch every night, like I'm couch surfing across the Atlantic Ocean. That's a couch surfer's dream, all all, catching a ride on some couch that'll take you around the world, like some slacker Magellan, mooching a circumnavigation."
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