Dear Reader,
and here’s something new. just finished a day or two ago. i’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. come back spring and pat my eyes and nose dry with dandelions and buttercups.
heeeeeere’s fight club….

blood,
your narrator,
eric ()
Dear Reader,
well, a very smart person laid some knowledge on me so the mech page is already in it’s 1.1 stage.
dig.
love
your narrator,
eric ()
Dear Reader,
phew. the last few days have been awful. i feel like i’m gonna be sick, i’ve been sweating with the chills. i hate getting sick.
But my loss is your gain, fans of all things artistic and literary.
because i’ve been sitting around the house and i decided this would be a good time to set up the merchandise page for boxwithman.com. that’s right. now, anything you ever see on this page, as long as i made it, you can buy it.
now i know i said $10 for stencils. i know, i know…but when i found out how much it costs to ship these things, i didn’t want the product to cost as much as the shipping. that de-values the whole thing, in my opinion.
so, there you have it. with no further fanfare and what have you, i introduce…..’the merch page’
yours
your narrator,
eric ()
Dear Reader,
whoo. how are you? i hope everything’s going well. here in lakewood/cleveland it’s spring now into summer and since the big professional artists change and open eyes thing i’ve been busy just following the path that’s been laid out in front of me and i’ve started tripping over all the good things. i need a battleplan. i seem to spend each day doing a little on alot, so i need to start doing alot on a little, right.
well, i have the first drafts of the cover and insert and back cover of the cd. here are some pictures:



i like the actual images and the stencils i’ve done but i’m not so sure about the translation from that o the technical image. i have to find an hd camera or some way to scan these things in so they look like they do in real life. because my crappy camera isn’t doing it.
well, this will be the thing i’m working on for the time being. went to the happy dog to see some friends play last night and handed out a bunch of stancils with the web site on them, so if you’re new to the site…hello.
hers and hers and his,
-eric
your narrator,
eric ()
Dear Reader,
sorry i’ve been gone. my neurologist put me on a new medication for the ms stuff and, well, i’d put a picture of it up here but i’d be afraid it would put you to sleep. i’ve been asleep or sleep walking for the past 4 days. hell, i may have written this to you already. i haven’t checked. but i’mm feeling good again and even started on a new stencil. i’m moving into multiple layers again, four sheets for this one. here’s a picture:

if you can figure out what it is from these pictures, i’ll spray it on anything you want.
well, i don’t want to push myself too far. may fall………asle………snore.
happy fathers day to all the fathers out there. we are in an eternal fraternity. always bonded together.
your narrator,
eric ()
Dear Reader,
i’ve been busy the last couple of days, doctors for me, with a new prescription for the face pain and such, but geez-o. she told me they were going to ‘bomb me’ with the medication. alot for the first 2 days and down to 300 after that. well, i started wednesday night, had a few hours of semi-lucidity, then today, friday, i was able to get a little work done until about 2:00, then…flash, i’m up now eating some oatmeal and getting ready for bed. michelle was nice enough to take today off so i could sleep, which certainly did.
but, before all this started i made a new stencil for the cover of the cd or the book, depending on which is finished first. i put the cigarette pack next to the stencil it for scale, and guess that’s it for now. so sleepy. write. more. tomorrow.

yours
your narrator,
eric ()
Dear Reader,
had a nice time at the lit last night. a guy from ann arbor liked what carmen and i were doing and gave us his contact info. said he’ll try to put together some shows up there for us. that’ll be nice.
sold 3 framed stencils and a print, and earlier sold a book and a cd, so that was nice.
i’m taking the day off, just cooling out.
-eric
your narrator,
eric ()
Dear Reader,
super awesome day so far. ran down and visited with my man jason at the exchange on detroit there in lakewood, then i went and picked up the master copy of the cd, the story and slow poems cd. actually there are 2 but i’m just going to focus on putting out the 1 right now. i can’t wait for you to hear it. i think it’s really turned out awesome. benton plays behind the low poems on the rhodes and it’s very nice. all done in one take…the stories, the poems and the rhodes, all 1 take and all the sounds and stuff all left in, you hear what went down when it was recorded. nothing fooled with or cut out. this is how i sound. this is how these poems are and this is how you’ll hear them right out of my mouth. no bologna.
enough about that. ok, one more thing about that.
i’ll have a copy tonight so if you come out to the lit i’m gonna take people out to my car to listen to it cause i’m so excited, so if you want to hear some of it, again, come on down to the literary cafe in tremont. man, i should ask for some money for all this promotion. but i don’t go out all that often so it’ll be a chance for us to get together and b@llsh!t.
lastly, got the bukowski done and, last night, in a fit, i finished another, and i love it.
here’s the bukowski:

and here’s the new one:

i love that one. the simplest and the most realistic.
well, that’s it for now. hanging with the girls today and i’ll see you tonight.
your narrator,
eric ()
Dear Reader,
boy am i glad i have work to keep me busy cause otherwise i’d just be sitting around kicking sh!t and not watching the finals. god i hate orlando now. so smug.
anyway…here’s bukowski 3 hours in:

putting together some new copies of The Red Human-Headed Bull which i’m halfway through already so come out to the lit in tremont on thursday night around 9 or 10 to pick one up. $5 cheap.
your narrator,
eric ()
Dear Reader,
a busy weekend turned into a busy early week which has not stopped, thankfully i suppose. i am tired today more from taking a looong walk with my girls and stopping at a park where my littlest learned how to go down the slide (me going down slowly in front of her) for the first time and we did it 20 times. she laughed so hard, it was the greatest sound.
so, to work.
well, i got James Baldwin done. and i wanted to try it differently because obviously he’s black while the other characters are white and i think it turned out well. i like it.

it took awhile and i had to go back and duct tape some spots and cut again because i wanted to try to give him an illuminated face. i think it worked out well.
now onto the #1 of all of these stencils. this shall be my greatest achievement. Charles Bukowski.
do you want to see the drawing of the stencil?
ok.

ok. now, probably within the next day or two i’m going to be starting a pay pal account here and the books and stencils will be for sale. the books and art, as always $5. now if you want it framed it’s $10, but if you just want a print, then it’s $5. i haven’t figured out shipping yet, whether i’m gonna charge for it, i’ll probably have to, considering the price. i’d use up most of the price in shipping some of them. we’ll figure it out, me and you.
remember, red human-headed bull. next time you’ll be able to see me read and pick up a copy will be at the lit in tremont. go here for details.
well, off to work on bukowski. i’ll keep you informed.
your narrator,
eric ()
