05/02/2011: New Homes
hello!
the card catalog of reasons to be happy has a new home: the tea lounge in brooklyn, ny. It's there right now and it'll be there until the end of June. Two months! This is the place I imagined the catalog going when I first had the idea. It's very exciting to have it there. Thanks to Michael, Ian, and everyone else at tea lounge for making it happen. As always, new cards will be posted over on www.100reasonstobehappy.com.
in other news, I've moved too! Back to Brooklyn. Life has been chock full of fiction-writing, comics-drawing, and other sorts of things I keep meaning to tell you about but never quite do. Soon, soon.
thanks, all--
tim
03/31/2011: card catalog at Sachem Public Library!
the card catalog of reasons to be happy is officially installed at the Sachem Public Library in Holbrook, NY for the month of April. If you live on Long Island, you've got to stop in and make a few cards!
it's right near the entrance, in the cafe. Get yourself a tea, flip through some magazines, and--hey--that's a reason to be happy right there.
here are the instructions:
and here it is! Tons of thanks to Lauren Gilbert and the Sachem PL for making it all possible, and Casey for helping to install it.
(and remember: Even if you're not on Long Island, you can still make cards and e-mail or real-mail them to me to go up on www.100reasonstobehappy.com.)
xoxo
tim
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03/23/2011: thank you / i'm sorry / you're welcome / i forgive you / (?)
hey!
i've been updating the thank you cards silently over the past few months. It's an unusual project I don't think I'll fully understand until it's over. Originally, I intended to write a thank you note to someone or something every morning or night and carry it with me for 24 hours to let its power work on me. It quickly brought up feelings of remorse and questions of self-worth. The idea of being grateful for life is apparently not such a simple one. I'll keep making these until I've done them for a year (sometime in June, right?) and then I'll look them over and try to make some conclusions. Till then, all I can tell is it's a strange road…
as always, new reasons to be happy are being posted almost daily at www.100reasonstobehappy.com.
xo
tim
(michael cunningham, by nightfall)
03/07/2011: questions
so i left home at 4:45 in the morning.
the sunrise was really quiet. just a brightening of the sky behind the clouds.
i was going to portfolio day at the center for cartoon studies in white river junction, vt.
the village was really beautiful.
i walked around and thought about what is the best way to get creative work done. where should you live? how should you structure your life?
what is the most important work i could be doing with my time?
...what is someone supposed to do with their time?
i visited the school's amazing schulz library of comics.
they had an anders nilsen book i've always wanted but could never find! ("don't go where i can't follow")
is it right to ask questions? can one ask too many questions?
the next day i went contra dancing in greenfield, massachusetts. i was really nervous and only danced two or three times, but it was really fun.
then i tracked down a copy of my mini-comic at million year picnic in cambridge. it was a great comic book store and it was cool to see the comic off on his own.
i don't have photos to prove it, but i also met a ton of cool people, spent time with friends i really missed, thought about other friends late at night, talked to my brother on the phone from my car, napped in my car, hung out in a hot tub in the rain, and ate a chocolate-covered marshmallow peep. and i listened to a lot of great music while driving.
(i hope i am doing the right things. i hope i will never look back and wish i'd done a different thing.)
(xo)
(tim)
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03/04/2011: where does our time go?
(sunrise out the train window coming home from a very late, very good night)
my apologies for the lack of updates. Have been studiously working on comics and fiction, updating www.100reasonstobehappy.com, and feeling more alive than ever.
the card catalog has returned home and is presently taking a nap in the corner of my mother's living room:
Long Islanders and Brooklyners alike, be excited: the card catalog will be coming to a library or coffeeshop near you in April or May. Stay tuned for more information.
xoxo
timbo
02/26/2011: Rose Main Reading Room, NYPL
swoon!
(spent much of my week sitting in this room working on short stories and trying to organize my life.)
(xo)
(tim)
02/20/2011: the coolest comic book stores in the world
you are wondering where the coolest comic book stores in the world are. here is the list of them. why are they so cool? oh, you know, because they carry copies of stories i wish i could tell you #1 and #2.
540 metropolitan ave
brooklyn ny 11211
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3620 falls rd
baltimore md 21211
atomics books also has the first and second issues available through their online catalog, including excerpts, links to the two animated videos, and recommendations of other comics you might like. this place is amazing! if you're in baltimore, give them a high five.
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6350 se foster rd
portland or 97206
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900 valencia st @ 20th)
san francisco, ca 94110
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1854 w. north ave
chicago il 60622
quimby's has #1 up in their online catalog, and includes this synopsis:
"Tim spaces out and reels further and further into a high school worm hole...first crushes, going to the mall, listening to Nadasurf. There's a really funny stick-figure drawing of a TOOL poster on the next to last page that really charms me. -EF"
woo!
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3244 n clark st
chicago il 60657
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99 mt auburn st
cambridge ma 02138
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3138 dobson st
pittsburgh pa 15219
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1923 3rd ave
seattle wa 98101
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THANK YOU to all these awesome stores for giving them a shot!
if you see a copy on the shelf, send me a photo of it! if they're all out, tell them you demand more! actually, just ask politely. or, even better, just let me know because chances are i've lost track of time and haven't checked in with them.
xoxo all
timmy
02/16/2011: some selections from the card catalog
here are some selections from the card catalog of reasons to be happy. about 100 of the now 220 cards put in the catalog are up at www.100reasonstobehappy.com. i'll be posting new ones every day over there.
thank you to everyone who's been making these incredible cards! if you haven't made one yet, do it!
(and, you're right, i do need to update around here more often. okay! i'll do it! i promise!)
xoxo
tim
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reason to be happy #1
reason to be happy #38
reason to be happy #41
reason to be happy #50
reason to be happy #60
reason to be happy #72
reason to be happy #74
reason to be happy #83
reason to be happy #91
