Goat rucksack II

We posted a still before of a Cuban goat backpack , well here’s a video of an Ethiopian one:

Say wat?

Didn’t come across any goats in Thailand or Cambodia, but did meet these water buffalo near Angkor Wat:

Man in goat suit seen living among goats in Utah mountains

Coty Creighton, 33, spotted the goat man Sunday during his hike. He said he came across the herd, but noticed something odd about one goat that was trailing behind the rest.

“I thought maybe it was injured,” Creighton said Friday. “It just looked odd.”

He said he pulled out binoculars to get a closer look at the herd about 200 yards away and was shocked. The man appeared to be acting like a goat while wearing the crudely made costume, which had fake horns and a cloth mask with cut-out eye holes, Creighton said.

“I thought, ‘What is this guy doing?’ ” Creighton said. “He was actually on his hands and knees. He was climbing over rocks and bushes and pretty rough terrain on a steep hillside.”

Creighton said the man occasionally pulled up his mask, apparently trying to navigate the rocky terrain. The man then appeared to spot Creighton.

“He just stopped in his tracks and froze,” he said.

Scrotal Goat Bell

Jess was in Kenya & Ethiopia last week visiting all sorts of goats. I didn’t get to go but this was my consolation prize she brought back (a bell made from a dried out goat scrotum).

No Country for Goat Men

Well, Kenya is a country for goats, but unfortunately not our current living situation. We arrived here in Nairobi a week ago in two pieces, but our luggage didn’t. None of it. We eventually got it 4 days later, after much hassle. But still not totally connected to the net. Our new place is off the grid with a nice big yard, but we’re living in guest house with 5 dogs, four of which would probably make mincemeat out of a goat within seconds. So our goat dreams are temporarily on hold until we find suitable pastures. I blogged in far more detail about our first days getting situated in Nairobi here: http://5cense.com/pack_nodes.htm

Some funny goats we met in Missouri

We have embarked on our goat rodeo travels to Kenya but on our way, we had to stop and see some of the US of A. We have been on a road trip that took us from NY to Ohio, Pennsylvania, Detroit (to see brother Peter), Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, our final destination. We saw lots of corn, soybeans and come to jesus signs, but not a lot of goats. Except, we did come across these pygmy and nubian goats in a very sketchy animal park deep into missouri.

Read about more goat rodeo road trip misadventures on derek’s5cense.

Goatly Liquidation Part 2: Fondue Pot Belly Trimmer and more

EVERYTHING IS GONE, THANK YOU!!!!!!!

The saga continues… we’ve got ridden rid of quite a bit of stuff and lowered prices from our previous Goat Rodeo sale, and we dug deeper into our closets and shelves to find more junk. Even those great books that you want to keep, what’s the point unless it’s a reference book or first edition? All this stuff is better off passed along and being used than rusting away in a storage unit in Tijeras, New Mexico. So here’s some more stuff to add to the our-nyc-lives-for-sale-so-we-can-start-a-new-one-in-Africa sale…

31. Cuisinart fondue set, $30. We’ll send you some goat cheese from our pending Kenyan goat named Sancho to try goat cheese fondue if you buy it:

32. Creme Brulee Torch, $10. (You can use it for more than creme brulee, I’m sure it would be a great implement of torture…). And we’ll vouch that it’s great for roasting poblanos.

33. “Premium” books, the ones we dug deeper for and are keen to get rid of only for a good price ($3-$5, with postage if applicable): [NOTE: MOST OF THESE ARE GONE]

There’s more I didn’t get in the picture like Yannick Murphy (Here they Come), William Saroyan (… Trapeze), Robert Penrose (Emperor’s New Mind), James Joyce (Dubliners), John Kennedy Toole (Confederacy of Dunces), etc. Funny thing is we had the books stacked against the wall and heard a crash in the middle of last night. I came out to see what happened and the books were all over the floor, and OBERIU was an absurd distance away from the others, like 20 feet, that defied physics..

34. For all of you itching to start a small press, this Belly Trimmer is a key ingredient. I’m not sure belly trimmer is the right word for it, but that’s what I call it. It’s a fancy paper cutter (guillotine style, not swing arm) I use to crop the edges of chapbooks, or any stacks of paper you want to cut/crop. They are not easy to come by. By me selling it means I will never make another chapbook again, which is about as liberating as off-loading this unwieldly beast. Am I doing a good job of selling it? It’s yours for $100:

35. Is it taboo to sell a used Cuisinart? We didn’t do anything too kinky with it, just a lot of tomatillo salsa. $20. Suckers are expensive new.

36. Nifty little shallow shelf I forgot about first time around, $20. Q-tips and Tampax not included.

37. Weber BBQ. $20 with lighter fluid and charcoal and whatever monkfish remnants are clinging to the grill.

38. Mixer. $10. Might not be as cool-looking as the cover of Gary Lutz’ Stories in the Worst Way, which will soon be in the Calamari Press catalog, but electric is a bit more practical:

39. Knives! Make us an offer.

40. Okay, this is where things start to get rather granular and random and you’re best off just coming to our sidewalk sale on July 5th (15 W. 74th Street, 9 am to 6 PM) to rummage real-world like. But here’s some of the assorted items for sale at the risk of being expository (yes, that’s a soldering iron in the first picture, used to solder BC/AD).

Everything must go! If we could sell the kitchen sink we would!

Contact us by email or 917.306.8259 to arrange to come by to check out/pick up, or to have stuff shipped, etc. or wait til the sidewalk sale on July 5th if you want to risk coveted items disappearing before then.

Goat Rodeo Kick-off Sale: books, CDs, furniture and more…

UPDATE: EVERYTHING IS GONE, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Before we can move to Nairobi, we need to off-load excess stuff. If we lived anywhere else, we’d have a garage or yard sale, but alas, in NYC the only option is a sidewalk sale (we don’t even have a stoop). This sidewalk sale will take place (in the real world) on July 5th (9 a.m. to 6 p.m.) at or around 15 W. 74th St. Apt 8a, between Central Park West and Columbus, in the shadow of the San Remo. In the meantime though, if you see anything you like just contact us and if it’s small enough we can send it to you, or if it’s big enough, then we can arrange to show it if you can pick it up.

All proceeds from this Goat Rodeo liquidation go to supporting our goatly cause, which is to say it will support our relocation to Nairobi where Jess will be working for the Millennium Villages project and Derek will continue to run Calamari Press and Sleepingfish, perhaps with African gusto, and probably continuing to work for the villages project in some capacity. And of course it will go towards raising our goat Sancho. If you make a significant purchase, we will give you updates on the goat you helped to finance, perhaps even goat cheese, though we actually can’t promise we will have a physical goat. It’s more the idea of a goat that drives us.

With out further ado, here’s what we are getting rid of that hopefully you can find a home for. It’s basically all of our wordly possessions we have accrued since living in NYC. All prices are negotiable and we will consider any offer. Things are available til they’re gone, we’ll hold things for you while arranging pick-up, but otherwise please don’t ask us to hold things just because you think you might want it. A good starting point is this video walk-though of our apartment showing what we are selling:

1. Captain’s Bed (full, w/ 4 drawers two on either side). $150 or b.o. Like almost all the furniture here, we got it at Gothic Cabinet Craft. They rock. We are not leaving til end of July, but you can take the bed now if you want, and we’ll just sleep on the floor. I’m assuming you don’t want the mattress. That’s kind of gross:

2. Flimsy bookshelf. Ceramic jaguar not included. Hell, we found it on the sidewalk somewhere, we’ll give it back for free to whoever wants it:

3. Narrow-smaller bookshelf. $30:

4. This one’s a bit bigger and nicer, lets say it’s $40 to not confuse with the others:

7. Various sporting items: tennis rackets ($20 $10 each), yoga mats (ok, gross enough to have for free), barbell weights ($20 for the set of them).

9. Sony 16″ TV. It’s not flat-screen, but it works and it’s only $30 $20:

12. Tall CD Rack. $25. Just the rack. I’ll get to the CDs later.

15. 5-piece pub-style Dining Set, $200 $180:

16. An 18″ ViewSonic flat-screen monitor, $40 $30.

17. Studio Day Sofas. Ends fold down to form comfy futon bed. We have two ONE of them left, $200 $150 each. Also comes with extra covers so you can have them olive-gray or white, or mixed:

19. Small Desk with drawers. Big enough for a Jess. $50 $40.

20. Bar desk, it’s technically a bar, but I use it as a stand up desk. The top came off and it’s not supposed to, it’s just setting on top. You could nail it back on if you set your mind to it. The other side is bookshelves. $50 $40, w/backed-barstool:

21. HP 1012 printer. $20 $15. It has served me well, had it since the beginning of Calamari Press.

22. HP 2600N, color laserjet tower printer, $50 $40. Sorry the photo is upside-down, not sure how that happened. It’s pretty new, I’ve had it less than a year.

23. TV stand with built-in DVD/CD rack, $30 $25.

27. Sharp Microwave, $40:

28. Krupps coffeemaker ($10), blender and toaster. Obviously we can’t part with coffeemaker til the day we leave:

29. This is where things start to get good. CDs. Lots of them. [NOTE: MORE THAN 1/2 ARE GONE, ASK ME AND I CAN CHECK]. $2 each, at least ’til the good ones are gone. These and the books are available through mail if you paypal me at this address. Add $1 each postage if so, at least for the first 2-3. We’ll make you a deal if you buy a lot.

30. And last but not least, books. These are hard to say, the smaller cheap books $1, if they’re bigger or hardback or art books, than $3 or $5. No reasonable offer refused, especially the more you buy. Again, these are available by paypal (to this address) Add $1 or $2 for each book depending on how big they are. And don’t be offended if you see your book in here. I don’t keep books in general, I think it means a lot more to pass them on than have then sit in storage or on someone’s shelf. And also, the top book “Phaic Tan” is like the funniest book ever. [NOTE: MORE THAN 2/3 OF THE BOOKS ARE GONE, ASK ME IF THERE ARE ANY IN PARTICULAR YOU WANT]

There will be more stuff than I can mention here at the physical sidewalk sale. Basically we’re selling every thing that isn’t digital or that we won’t wear on our backs in Africa. I will also have Calamari Press books there for sale at a discount, including the new Sleepingfish ($10) and my forthcoming book Marsupial (free to anyone that shows up and says “Goat Rodeo”). Again the sidewalk sale is on July 5th, 9 am to 6 PM at 15 W. 74th St. Apt 8a. If you get lost or want to arrange to pick something up, call us 917.306.8259.