One Lap 9/19/2013

Date: 9/19/2013

Day: -8

Location: Home

Miles Today: 0

Total Miles:  0

So, how about the logo?

This logo above, which is exactly what the Colonel had in mind as necessary to establish proper panache for the One Lap project, was drawn by the noted Berkeley polymath, Mr. Dan Schiff.  Did someone ask who is Dan Schiff?  Seriously?  Can there be anyone who does not know??  Perhaps you have been living with your head in a bucket of bolts (or in some place other than Berkeley, California, Yellow Springs, Ohio, or the James Joyce Stiftung [Foundation] in Zurich.)  If so, Mr. Schiff is, among far too many other things to note here:

• A publishing mogul – founder and chief potentate of Wonderworker Press, see www.wonderworkerpress.com.  If you don't know what a wonderworker is, you need to read Ulysses again.  

  

  Stolen from Wonderworker Press, but at least we supplied attribution

•  A DJ who created the music files which will form the acoustic background for the One Lap project.   

• A noted bassist.
  

  

  Stolen from... That would be the hand of Mr. S on the left.

• Al respected Joycean scholar with sufficient publications in academic journals to merit tenure at most colleges.  Selah! 

• The world expert on Joyce and cartooning – a more important topic than you might think.  When next you meet him, ask about Ally Sloper and find a place to sit down; it’s a good story.

Stolen from .....

• A cartoonist of such fecundity and power that he was able to create our logo with one hand while eating Cajun shrimp from Easy Creole in Berkeley with the other.  Really.

It's not about what it is not, but what it is.

•       An proponent of large hair for men.

Mr. Schiff, our blogflogger and all around good guy.  Ask him about the watch.

• He has been referred to on the astral plane by Margaret Dumont as the Harpo Marx of Joyce criticism, but not so by the Colonel.  The Colonel thinks Gummo closer to the mark.

Mr. Schiff is also a blogflogger to whom we are grateful for flogging the Colonel into the early parts of the twenty-first century.  Impelling the Colonel far enough, at least, to be able to post words and images to this blog no matter where he might be -- so long that it is within range of Starbucks WI-Fi or a Sprint cell tower. This is no small accomplishment, since the Colonel still mourns the loss of rotary dial phones with little light-up buttons that show which lines are busy.  He thinks communications have been all down hill since then, internet be damned.  Crusty follow, the Colonel.

 

In a gentler age we would have said Mr. Schiff was our mentor, kind and very generous with his time, who taught us how to manage this task, but what the modern age gains in rapid access to data, it loses in couth.

So blogflogger is what he is.

Tomorrow, an answer to the pressing question of Drood and some thoughts on road names.

Wellington Boot, Col.