{"id":125,"date":"2008-07-27T08:36:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T13:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=125"},"modified":"2018-10-31T12:34:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T16:34:20","slug":"sunday-archive-iv-the-greatsociety-book-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Archive IV: The Greatsociety Book Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gmail cleanout\u2026part four!<\/p>\n<p>GS started in April of 2001, then called Dirty Freaks.\u00a0 It switched over to GS in 2002.\u00a0 By 2004, I had tons of shit that I had thrown up drunkenly onto the front page\u2026just like I\u2019m doing now!<\/p>\n<p>I started a publishing company in January of 2005, and that was after thinking hard about it throughout 2004.\u00a0 Though I eventually took a serious route and published an established author, that\u2019s not how the company began.\u00a0 I was very close to publishing a \u201cNacho Sasha\u201d collection.<\/p>\n<p>This is from December of 2004, a quick sort of outline to my then assistant with an eye on an early 2006 release.\u00a0 It references front page articles, some of which can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/fpm\/content\/section\/1\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">found in the archives<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rough notes for the \u201cNacho Sasha\u201d collection, rel. April 2006.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m wondering how to juggle this \u2013 make it a POD thing?\u00a0 Kind of a chapbook maybe?\u00a0 I\u2019m thinking of making it like those classic low budget compilation things \u2013 art and everything in the margins, little snippets from stories lifted out and done as background art, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I want Paulie to do most of the art, including the cover.\u00a0 Maybe have it in the 250 page range, or a bit less.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this will barely make sense, but do you have two cents worth?<\/p>\n<p>Title:<\/p>\n<p>How to Write Poorly:\u00a0 The GreatSociety.org Compendium of Slightly Better Than Usual Drunken Ranting<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0 Nacho Sasha<\/p>\n<p>Outline:<\/p>\n<p>Putting it all together \u2013 From webzine to print (foreword by Nacho)<\/p>\n<p>Section One:<\/p>\n<p>Living the Myth<\/p>\n<p>Intro: Notes from the Margin<br \/>\n&#8211;best margin Articles (50 pages)<\/p>\n<p>Comics interlude \u2013 Paulie animation?\u00a0 Some sort of beleaguered GS writer in an office?\u00a0 Like a newsroom, old style?<\/p>\n<p>Section two:<\/p>\n<p>Write till the Authorities Stop You<\/p>\n<p>Intro:\u00a0 The Dirty Freak in you (intro to Oscar Bin Laden)<\/p>\n<p>OBL Letters, lifted from the DF articles.\u00a0 Cartoons and \u201coutraged\u201d quotes.<\/p>\n<p>The articles<\/p>\n<p>Feedback and quotes and stuff about Oscar \u2013 Guy in a Turban lyrics?\u00a0 Paulie\u2019s fashion models?<\/p>\n<p>50 pages??<\/p>\n<p>Section Three:<\/p>\n<p>Fiction Shortcuts, Cult Culture and Family:<\/p>\n<p>The Very<\/p>\n<p>Anniversary<\/p>\n<p>The Tiger\u2019s Path<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s Blank Page<\/p>\n<p>Butterflies &amp; Lemonade<\/p>\n<p>Cherokee Bride<\/p>\n<p>The Underdog<\/p>\n<p>The Adventure of the Speckled Egg<\/p>\n<p>Mercury in the news<\/p>\n<p>Gunsmoke<\/p>\n<p>Cheeta Lives<\/p>\n<p>Empty Spaces<\/p>\n<p>70 pages<\/p>\n<p>Section Four:<\/p>\n<p>The Losers<\/p>\n<p>Crazy office emails<\/p>\n<p>Collection from customer service<\/p>\n<p>(arts and shit \u2013 scanned in crazy mail, crazy quotes, drawings from Paulie)<\/p>\n<p>30 pages<\/p>\n<p>Section Five:<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t ruin a good thing!<\/p>\n<p>Nacho\u2019s Hammer<\/p>\n<p>Throughout \u2013 Scanned office items\u2026crazy art, etc.\u00a0 Especially on the dialog pages for crazy office emails.\u00a0 Paulie does art, etc.\u00a0 Maybe some stuff from me?\u00a0 Stick figure screens just taken out of context?<\/p>\n<p>Failed Script Ideas and stuff like that as background?\u00a0 Separated out?\u00a0 Little quotes here and there at odd places?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gmail cleanout\u2026part four! GS started in April of 2001, then called Dirty Freaks.\u00a0 It switched over to GS in 2002.\u00a0 By 2004, I had tons of shit that I had thrown up drunkenly onto the front page\u2026just like I\u2019m doing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=125\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Archive IV: The Greatsociety Book Idea<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[137,402],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunday-archive","tag-archives","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}