Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Webcam at giantrobot.com is working. Both gr1 and gr2 are back up. Today Jack and Wilson handle GR1, and Serina is at GR2. Pictured is Mike from the webstore prowling.
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Deadline and pie. We’re on deadline right now and today we were thinking about pie month at Marie Callender’s. One month, the GR crew racked up 20 pies in one month. You return the tin, and you get a discount, so the incentive was there to get more pie out of the deal. We ate slices and slices of every kind of pie. From fruit to pseudo fruit to pecan and rhubarb. I remember Martin saying, “this was the best pie month, ever.” What were the previous ones like? Either way, we always remember that magical pie month which was now a few years ago. Deadline and pie, sounds kind of funny, doesn’t it? Most people get their reward after they finish something. That’s what dessert’s all about. But one of the best parts about being here at GR, dessert can come first, second, and even twentieth.
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Souther is having a show in our second New York space. There’s something sentimental about Souther’s show titles. We Were Young, and It Was Summer, sounds like something out of a novel or a movie. Souther taps into a distant memory bank in everyone. Have a fleeting relationship during the freedom of summer in years past? His art does the same thing. In a sophistication of schooled technique mixed with an honest hand which creates a narrative art world that’s sentimental.
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12 years, 41 issues, the only one started as real zine, 1 sentence in the NY Times. Priceless!
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GRSF has Myleen as the manager. Myleen is from LA, via SF, but from LA. Does that make sense? On the right, that’s Heather. My short visit in SF was to help oversee a little bit of the new space next door. If you walk in, say “Hi Myleen,” she’s the friendliest around. It’s going to be good. A few posts back, I mentioned the crummy breakfast place, the Squat and Gobble! That’s exactly what I did, I gobbled then went home and squated, for a while. Pork Store on the other hand, they give it up better. Those brown things are veggie sausage patties. The biscuits have veggie gravy. Small “+” for Haight now that I had something decent. SF gets better and better, I think it has to do with weather, nice folks, and the easy mode of transportation. Haight is still weird (Although Kent from FTC is always cool), but it was nice to jump on a flight home, drop off my shit, and make it to the softball game.
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