this is a question for my dearest LXYLXYLXYLXYLXYLXYLXYLXYXLXYLXYXLXYXLXLXLYXLXYL

i.e. LXY:

lxy dearest, i was wondering if you are able to draw the silhouette of a slinky woman, a go-go dancer to be precise, but really anything along those lines, just a feminine shape with boobs. i'm thinking about our next book, which is a collection of poems by this amazing amazing amazing woman who was a friend of bukowski's back in 60s. she was a go-go girl, so this will be a collection of poems based around that theme. anyway: i want the image on the cover to be a gocco print of a women's naked profile. i will send you a few copies of the book as compensation!

here is a poem from her:

Minding the Infernal Generation Gap with Virginia Woolf

Dustin the 20some boy next door asks about my

red Virginia Woolf tee-shirt I wear: Who’s that?

and I tell him and Dustin winces, looks confused.

A British writer, I add and he frowns, bobbles his

shaven head atop his baggy rock concert logo’d

tee-shirt, his scrawny knees wriggling inside his

rapper-boy too-big-for-his-britches short pants.

Dustin looks like every drug-user stay-at-home

white male from New York City to L.A. who plays

video games all day and smokes pot all night so it

would make no sense to him if I told him I’d read

Mrs. Dalloway in grad school in 1979, years before

his birth, had tried to write like Virginia Woolf, used

a lot of semi-colons and streams of consciousness

so I say: Virginia Woolf wrote songs for the Beatles,

played tambourine for Sid Vicious, was Posh Spice’s

great-grandmother and that makes Dustin smile, say:

Hey, yeah, way cool, I thought she looked familiar,

I could tell she was really old. Then he answers his

cell, struts Cool Dude down the stairs to go to the

corner 99-cent store to buy his cheap-o cigarettes

and I go to the supermarket for milk and think what

fun it is not to tell the truth, feel as giddy from this

flippant fabrication, my flummery of balloon juice as

I’d be from chugging a magnum of Dom Perignon

champagne so I pat Virginia Woolf on her tousled

upswept hair printed on my red tee-shirt, thank her for

Being There for me, but Virginia Woolf only hmmphs,

not speaking to me, too good for me, just like always.

not only is she a wonderful story teller but she's also one of the nicest ppl i've had the pleasure of knowing

i hope the assignment is for every sandboxer to draw his or her own rendition in mspaint also

dear ruby,

i would love to! first i must know your timeline, though. i've got a couple of other things to do before i can start a new project. if your timing is flexible the answer is YES! and thank you for inviting me to do this!

i am also still very interested in that other project we talked about. is it still in your plans? i hope so! if so, do you have a timeline for that?

many <3s,
lx

1. timing is def flexible. i'm still in the 'thinking' stage, trying to work out how i'm gonna design the deluxe edition. and i still gotta get paper and format and all that stuff. i'm imaginining that on my end i'll be ready to go in about 6 weeks, maybe. you will also get a CREDIT in the book (either 'lxy' or [real name})!!

2. i am also very interested in that other project but you know how writers are - such procrastinators ;) but i think i'm going to just go ahead and create a mock-up anyway and send it to you to get your ideas on the illustrations. and that way you can see the Z spine i was trying to explain to you (badly) awhile back.

<3 this subject line

carbolxyic acid

OMG I FEEL LIKE SUCH A DICK!!!!!

---> so, my mother-in-law is a huge, huge dog lover, and i had this idea for her 60th b'day back in january for a pet portrait (i figured this would score me massive DIL points). i did tons of research, trying to find a really great pet portraitist, but at the last minute i found out via my FIL that she didn't want gifts, but donations on her behalf to charities.

my point is: i totally forgot about your pet painting thang!!!!!! so now i feel like this gift not working out was actually a sign, and i would like to commission maybe 3 pet portraits from you at the end of the year. i will figure out pics and shit and you can give me a quote! i'm so excited!!!!!

<3

p.s. we are still coming to seattle in like FOUR WEEKS!!!!

yes! let's talk about this when YOU ARE HERE!!!!

let's!!!!!!!!!!