The Fezziwig News by Stu Jenks

All 8 1/2" x 11" A/P archival pigment prints by Stu Jenks for $25, shipping, handling and taxes included...

Image: "Queen Esther Baptist Church, Lancaster, Virginia" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks (Just down River Road from Victoria's house. Love that luscious red carpet. And for you nocturnals out there, it was handheld. Rare for me.)

In this time of making photos on iPhones and Macbook Pros and only looking on screens, I forget I'm a old-school guy. I make a 8 1/2 x 11 work print on archival paper of EVERY image I make. EVERY one. It's the only way, for me, to accurately check for color shift, density, composition, etc. I really like my iPad screen but it's no way to make a good print.

And I have hundreds, if not thousands, of work prints artist proofs at my studio.

If you see an image of mine on The StuBlog or on my old website or on the Fezziwig Press Store or in any of my books, there's a beautiful small print in a box somewhere, perhaps with your name on it. And since I'm organized, I can find it.

Many of you can't afford my larger prints. I understand. I don't have an extra 50 or 100 lying around either. But I do have an extra $20 for stuff I really like.

So if you see an image of mine on any of my sites or in any of my books and you want it, it's yours for $25, shipping, handling and tax included. (I believe in paying taxes, sales and otherwise.)

Just email me at my facebook page or through the StuBlog or at stujenks@gmail.com, and tell me what print you would like or just pull the jpeg and send that to me.

I was just watching the Tarhells lose today in basketball, working on images at my computer when I thought, 'I bet people don't realize I have boxes of work prints here.'

You all do now.

Love and light,

Stu

p.s. Ignore the catagories belows. The computer went wacky. Another reason why I prefer a print in the hand as opposed to an image in The Cloud.

Back to work on 'Dementia Reds'

On the advice of counsel, (that counsel being Mary Ann Harris and Charles de Lint), I'm letting the novel sit for a while before I go back to revise, edit and fix it. Charles suggested to start another novel. Good idea. I have another novel in mind, but instead I'm going back to a book I put down while I was writing the novel: Dementia Reds, the memoir documenting my mother's final journey into dementia and death, and my sister's succumbing to her breast cancer. I left the book after I had written two funerals but not the third. Just glancing at the document now, I really don't have much more to write. (Fingers crossed. I said the same thing about the novel.)

I left Dementia Reds in the Fall of 2011 for a lot of reasons. I was still pretty angry at some people in Virginia and North Carolina, I was in the midst of selling the tear-down house in Raleigh, and there was that pesky novel and all its characters running around in my head. But now, I need for the novel to steep, like a pot of Earl Gray. And I'm not so mad at the vultures and the overly-righteous from my ancestral South. I mostly just miss the hell out of my sister Pamela.

So thanks, Charles and Mary Ann. I hear your counsel. Oh, and on a business note, Dementia Blues is my only book that's selling. Give the people what they want. To buy.

Love and light,

Stu.

p.s. The above image was taken while Pamela was still alive, when I visited her near the end of her life. I got a sweet free upgrade on that rental car, receiving a hot red Mustang from Enterprise. Pamela and I had fun, punching it hard on the Beltline on our way to chemo. And below are pics of my sister and mother when they were young and healthy.

"Deaths & Injuries" is now on iTunes and at CDBaby.com

"Deaths & Injuries" is now available at your local iTunes store on your computer and on your mobile devices, and at my CDBaby.com page, both as a digital download and as a physical CD. You can also buy the physical CD at the Fezziwig Press Store. CDs are $12.00 through me and $13.00 through CDBaby.com (S & H extra.) And the digital downloads are your standard .99 cents per track.

Thanks, y'all.

Stu

p.s. The above image, "Ed-Lil" is on the inside cover of this CD. Just tired of putting the same cover image on my blog to promote this CD. If you want to see the cover, just scroll down.

"Finance & Revolution"

"Finance & Revolution: Virginia State Capitol Building, Richmond, Virginia" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

Now available, on the Apple IPad: The Transpersonal Papers (1861-2010) and Bozo In Love

Been a long time coming for The Transpersonal Papers (1861-2010).

Three editors, two proofreaders, two designers, four printers, and hours, days, weeks, months, years, lifetimes, (I know I'm overstating), of writing, traveling, shooting, editing, remembering, hiking, and more writing, shooting, and editing, but I'm not complaining. No, no, no.

And apologies for not having the dough right now, to print The Transpersonal Papers as a coffee-table book as I had originally planned. ($10,000, it would have cost. Maybe someday.) But you now can buy it, for $14.95, as an Ebook on the Apple IPad, and I expect it to be available within a couple days on the Nook and the Kindle as well.

I just looked at it on my new IPad. The photos, text and design look grand.

And as an extra surprise, Bozo In Love is now up on IBooks too, ($9.95), as well as the rest of my catalog: Flame Spirals, Hoop Dancing, and Dementia Blues, on IBooks, Nook and Kindle.

Just in time for Christmas.

And don't worry. All but The Transpersonal Papers can still be bought as a book book through Fezziwig Press. I have plenty. Just go to www.fezziwigpressonline.com, for the hardbounds and paperbacks, but go to ITunes, today, (and Kindle and Nook, soon) for the ebooks.

Heavy sigh from my third story apartment balcony. I look out onto the Tucson city lights in the valley below. Cold, dry air embraces me. I inhale deeply. Exhale.

A very good night in the desert.

Think I'll make a cup of coffee with egg nog and play some Angry Birds on my new IPad.

Time to celebrate.

 

"The Red Carpet at Queen Esther Baptist Church"

"The Red Carpet at Queen Esther Baptist Church, Mollusk, Virginia" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

"Wayfaring Stranger at Pamela and Mary Jenks' Graves"

"Pamela Jenks' Grave, St. Mary's Whitechapel Episcopal Church, Lively, Virginia" & "The Empty Living Room, Amherst Lane, Raleigh, North Carolina (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

 

At Mary and Pamela's funeral in Virginia, I played Wayfaring Stranger. Obviously, no one recorded it at our family plot, but in the cavernous, post-estate-sale living room at the Amherst house, I did. The song is in G minor, open tuning on my mandolin, and I played it as a waltz, rather than in 4/4. Hope you enjoy my version of this old tune.

Wayfaring Stranger (Amherst Lane)

 P.S. I'm off to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco, and also to pick up a new, better surfboard at Nor Cal Surf Shop. I'll be back in Tucson, middle of next week and I'll fill all book orders when I return. Thanks for your patience with the orders, and thanks for your prayers around Pamela and Mary.

The Pier Spiral: 2011

"The Pier Spiral, Rappahannock River, Virginia" (c) Stu Jenks, 2000, 2011 [A new cropped and modified version for Pamela and Mary Jenks]

Just a reminder. Funeral for Mary Jenks is tomorrow, Saturday, July 30th, at Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Tucson, Arizona, at 2:00 p.m.

Enjoy the pier image. Everything changes. A hurricane took it out eight years ago. And Death has taken Pamela and Mary, but I'm still here as are all of you. Until we're not. Live for today.

Blessing to you all.

Stu

P.S. My website www.stujenks.com is down temporarily. Should be up by next week. Fezziwig Press and Fezziwig News are still up and running but www.stujenks.com is down, because I didn't see that the domain renewal was up. Been a little busy and a little scattered, don't you know. Thanks, y'all.

 

VCU to The Final Four

Photo Credit: MARK GORMUS/TIMES-DISPATCH

VCU Final Four bound after upsetting Kansas
Paul Woody of the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Mar 27, 2011

The VCU Rams pulled off one of the biggest upsets in NCAA tournament history, beating Kansas 71-61 in the championship game of the Southwest Region. The victory puts VCU in the Final Four. The Rams, considered a mid-major team from the Colonial Athletic Association, play Butler, another mid-major team, Saturday in Houston.
VCU is an 11th seed in the tournament. Kansas was a No. 1 seed.
The Rams jumped out to a 14-point halftime lead, withstood a Kansas comeback that cut the lead to two, then rebuilt the advantage to a safe margin. VCU’s elimination of Kansas means no No. 1 seeds will play in the Final Four.

VCU wins Southwest Region, heads to Houston for Final Four

(Posted on the Times-Dispatch website, minutes after Virginia Commonwealth University's win.)

From Stu:

This is why I love the tourney so much. But on a personal note, as I posted earlier on Facebook, I was born in VCU's hospital. My father, my grandfather, my grandmother, and my sister were all born in Richmond. VCU has one of the best Art Schools on the East Coast. Some of the sweetest people I know are from Richmond and from Virginia. Victoria, Brad, Glenn, Jamie, the list is just too long. My father is buried in Virginia. My mother will buried there. I will be buried there too, in Lively, Virginia, if I can have someone take half of my ashes there. I'm an Arizonan for sure. I love my state of Arizona, but I have Virginia DNA. Virginia DNA. And this win makes me cry tears of joys. I guess I needed a good cry. And Richmond hasn't had an easy time of it lately. But tonight, I raise a strong cup of coffee to my fellow Virginians.

Save your Confederate money, boys. The South shall rise again! (In a good way.) Go Rams! Go VCU!

"Stuart Looking Up"

"Stuart Looking Up, Mothershead Neck, Virginia" (c) 2000, 2010 Stu Jenks

    Sometimes I miss him and sometimes I don’t.
    But tonight, I miss my Dad.