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Wednesday, April 21, 2004
It's to Be CoolPart of the Indonesia trip next month will involve a meet-up with some young artists in Jogjakarta who used to belong to an outfit called Apotik Komik, before it disbanded. Apotik Komik means "comic medicine," or "comic pharmacy"; their artwork is comic-book-inspired. I met an Apotik founder named Sam Indratma while he and his friends built and painted new murals in San Francisco last fall. (They're some of the best murals in a city that badly needs good ones. I'll post photos later.) I gave Sam a copy of the novel; we talked for all of five minutes; now he's arranging a colloquy of writers to discuss Too Much of Nothing in Jogja. And otherwise being very helpful.
"I will go with you with my motorcyle around to meet my friends," he writes by e-mail. "It's to be cool man."
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
1:18 AM
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