A couple of weeks ago a wise man told me “Nothing happens if you stay at home.”. That’s the rationale for spending money to prepare for and mount shows and go out and deal with the public.
We went to the Bay Area Anarchists Book Fair yesterday. Sometimes, nothing much happens when you go out either. Here are my gross earnings for the day.
It was late in the afternoon (There’s nothing like a whole morning of absolutely no interest to sap your ego.) and finally a young woman spent a while studying the postcards. There were a few she liked, but she was trying to narrow it down to one. I suggested she could get more than one, but apparently that wasn’t going to happen. She asked if I had any postcards that were more explicit like the books, because she would have preferred that, but I had to tell her that the postcard printer had rules. In the end she picked the Legs postcard and counted out the change shown above.
I felt bad. Did I take her last $2.00? It sure felt like it. I gave her a second postcard, probably should have given her more.
I should send her a print of this Legs image.
Another day in the life. And yet we persist….
Make sure you report that as a sale and pay tax to uncle Jerry.
9.25% in Oakland. So $0.915332 for me and $0.084668 to the government. I wonder if I can round down and send them 8 pennies.