I managed to skewer my thumb while binding the “Doubloon” chapbooks I am putting together to take on our tour. Those little cocktail cutlasses are really sharp!
I’m pretty happy with how these turned out– you have to “undress” them by pulling out the cocktail cutlass (WHAT is the etymology of cutlass? Cut lass… hmmm) to read what’s inside. Some of the pages are see-through and one is printed on a cocktail doily coaster. Sort of lacy under-things-ish. It’s all bound together by a length of tickets– “Admit One.” I thought of calling it “Peepshow” but I really like the (admittedly more oblique) connotations of “Doubloon”– double, money, balloons, somehow it sounds dirty but I don’t know why.
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