{"id":7509,"date":"2017-06-21T10:53:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T17:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=7509"},"modified":"2017-06-21T11:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T18:04:19","slug":"waiting-for-my-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/waiting-for-my-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for my Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing much going on. I’m still waiting for the final contract for that ten-book deal I was talking about, that is, for nine of my back-list books plus my new novel Million Mile Road Trip.<\/em> Meanwhile I’m revising Million Mile Road Trip<\/em> to the tune of maybe five thousand corrections…that is nearly twenty per page across three hundred pages. Making it better no doubt.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile you can still buy the old Transreal Books<\/a> editions of those nine backlist books.<\/p>\n

Here’s some recent photos, in no particular order or higher meaning.<\/p>\n

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Busy feet in Yerba Buena park near SFMOMA. California summer day with the air like cool water.<\/p>\n

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Awesome ping-pong table at the Garage Bar on 2nd street in the NuLu district of Louisville, KY. That’s a crushed car under the table.<\/p>\n

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Wideangle shot of the old SFMOMA entrance hall. I don’t really like the changes they’ve made to the building for the expansion. The elevators are confusing, and there’s no longer a good, big , reasonably priced cafe. Also it’s always too crowded now.<\/p>\n

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Giant bat at the Louisville Slugger factory\/museum on 2nd Street in Louisville. I toured this place in the third grade. They didn’t have the big bat then.<\/p>\n

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A type of shot I like, shadows on a sunny wall.<\/p>\n

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Two tourists in a multi-mirror lens. I’m the one on the right. Hockney-ized.<\/p>\n

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Peaceful hot Louisville space behind the crafts museum. Love the purplish brick and the soft shadows.<\/p>\n

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Monica Bengoa is a cool Chilean artist, interested in fiber. This is a detail of her installation<\/a> at the Kentucky museum of arts and crafts…she drew fruits and veggies in pencil on a wall, and overlaid it with embroidery hoops containing very detailed and color-rich photo-real embroideries she made.<\/p>\n

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Rudy the elder in brother Embry’s house.<\/p>\n

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Old-school stag-horn punch-bowl from colonial America, seen in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

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Antler rack of an animal my brother killed…he’s a hunter.<\/p>\n

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Cheered me to see my childhood hero Bo Diddley on a Summer of Love poster from San Francisco.<\/p>\n

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Love this logo at the Los Gatos Farmer’s Market. Reminds me of Heinlein’s novel Starman Jones<\/em>, where the boy leaves Pa’s farm to serve on a hyperjumping spaceship.<\/p>\n

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Soft Louisville clouds, with soft old houses.<\/p>\n

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Me with a something-gon in Hayes Valley. An Archimedean solid, hmm, look it up, it’s the small rhombicosidodecahedron<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nice graffiti near the >rhombicosidodecahedron. Even the guy who runs a market across the street couldn’t tell me what the words say.<\/p>\n

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Screen in focus, painters in bokeh, working on our deck and house.<\/p>\n

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The famed Marcel Duchamp urinal entitled, “Fountain<\/a>,” mais wee! Actually the original from 1917 was lost, but an art dealer went and found a similar urinal at the dump, and had MD sign it. Now at Philadelphia Museum of Art. A nice shape, although inexpugnably grody.<\/p>\n

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Going out to beach a lot these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing much going on. I’m still waiting for the final contract for that ten-book deal I was talking about, that is, for nine of my back-list books plus my new novel Million Mile Road Trip. Meanwhile I’m revising Million Mile Road Trip to the tune of maybe five thousand corrections…that is nearly twenty per page […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7509"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7516,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509\/revisions\/7516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}