Ep. 340: Scavenge & Morph (aka Recycle?)

Bookbinding

We are often urged to recycle and reuse. I did just that recently on a quick trip to Hanoi that netted me some Vietnamese paper and three barf bags from the flight over. And back. 

Here’s a small tip. Red-eye flights are good when you land in the evening, not so good when you land in the morning.

I made one A6, 100-page, blank notebook with one barf bag with the creative title Bee Creative Now and the subtitle of notebook for inspiration.

The front page as a small bee. The title page has a large Japanese kanji for bee: 蜂.

It was coptic bound for ease of opening and using the entire page. And for me to practice making coptic-bound books; always a plus.

The back cover has my boarding pass without my name over the barf bag. The front cover reuses only the barf bag (not used, fortunately). 

Fiction

Dmitry the Scavenger has stumbled into both a logistics problem and a name change. The novel starts in Chernobyl which I knew as in Ukraine and Dmitry drives his modified rusty camouflaged military truck full of contraband from Chernobyl to Moscow. Problem: crossing borders (Russia and Ukraine) in the middle of a war between those two countries in a MILITARY TRUCK! A Russian Military Truck! I need to find him another way out of Chernobyl or another abandoned village to ransack.
I also abandoned the Japanese word for scavenger as it was too obscure for even people who can read Japanese. You may reuse it as you wish.

Also in the works: A Marsh Mystery #3 The Madrid Marital Murder Case. Joe and Carmen investigate the murder of an abusive husband whose wife works for Carmen’s brother, Símon, a wealthy owner of a popular Madrid restaurant.

Movies/Talkies/Videos

TDGB 84 Scavenge & Morph is available for your visual pleasure. It is the making of the A6 blank notebook discussed in the Bookbinding section of this podcast episode. At 6:20 (minutes, not hours) it is not taxing or tiring; it’s Enjoyable!

Books

The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street is eager for your attention, being as it is lonely and on a quiet website (Apple Books is quiet?)

A beta reader came back with the following comments: “Wonderful. Great.” and “I cried at the end.”

Find out what Rin Okabe (former high school student, current electrical engineer) and Nagi Shimeki (retired high school teacher) are doing. 

Available almost everywhere (Apple Books, Kobo) except Amazon.