Shinny blue clothes, ties and long hair

The Barbarian and long haired book master rode again through the streets over highways and threw the air finding the mob lining up with deepening hunger fueled by lustful desire. Caught by the impending doom of missing the starting gates twice in two cities we sweat on to the opening moments thwarted by neither by power failures or near missed material drop offs. As the world tries to send us down to the lands of the silly we vanquish daily humdrum thoughts with our books of innocent mystery akin to the land of never never. Nay Sayer's drop the criticism that we are only making a joke not worthy of art. Have they forgotten our well venerated art form of comedy, lightening the heart for the days deary duties in this world of tragedy. We need only to have them come and be served our portion of laughing child like wonder and imagination making the serious questions we are seeding that more easy to swallow and digest. When we laugh and wonder we are not hurting each other instead we are embracing those around us with a kinship of joy.

As for the continuing adventures of the deep fried book I need only say that travel has begotten responses that have begotten more responses which have begotten questions. I say so because, I have felt my heart waver when it is thought that what we do is only the one-liner joke of hacks. I know that one book may not change the world or one persons life in response to what we ask as we create together but, it has a relationship to all other books the we as people encounter in combined force of a book, a-bomb.

Often we as a culture hold events to raise money for a cause of compassion to save people, places or our world in general. We have a fundraiser with entrainment and chances to win prizes to lure people into contributing and it works. As we play together the ground work is laid for the serious questions to come. We hope later that as people recount the event and discuss why or why not that these two pseudo-violent men playing jester to the book that our participants become emissaries of the growing project. Like the fund raisers of common use we lure with curiosity to gain pledges of hopeful changing relationships with the world at large and the book in particular.

Once a great library stood that held renown throughout the ancient world. The building itself was a book of sorts in itself housing unknowable amounts of collective knowledge. It like so many other great works fell to censorship through fire. As with all censorship the issue of control and manipulation comes into play. Often it is asked "isn't what you are doing like burning books?" I say yes, similar in our re-editing our re-representation of the object you take home but, it has become poetic in the form that results. A six-sided book replacing the common form of pages. You can read a painting or touch a sculpture and feel music so to you can read the newly renovated book we present to you. A collaborative work of all that encounter the project in person or by any other means possible.

Video cameras, loud music and microphones were newly encountered parts of the most recent adventure which have brought this lasted chapter to an even more surreal realm as the web content grows touching the boundaries of this vast world. How and what all this means is yet to be determined as the project has taken on a larger life where people actual have heard about the Deep Fried book before we meet them for the first time. It is funny now as we hear " oh, you are the one doing that," as our working efforts encounter others while presenting other works of ours. I hope we are not seen as just an act but more as a action with an intent of good to be done in the world. Like any favored character in the midst of a story we know not what will come as the pages turn and finding new type put down the next telling the next part of the story.

Soon another set of ventures will pull us back together onto the road and to another side of our shared country and perhaps the world as we spread like any invasive species that infects an area for good or ill. Lastly, I depart with the only words on the next page.....

Perhaps not a barbarian but, still appearing crude and perhaps not yet, a book master our two companions laugh in the exhaustion of many days of travel. Thankful for our crowds and support they now know that the world has only begun to take in this project of Deep frying books. Imagining the possibilities we consider what will happen as time goes on and history take hold on a daily basis.