I wrote an essay on chooglin. A man named Clinton at WFMU liked it. He did a lovely job of illustrating and hypertexting it. The timing was a little strange. You can find it here.

The Umbrella Journal

Volume 30, No. 2, Jun 2007 

Artist Books Reviews

There weren’s many girls around, so we dated ideologies. This left us always on the brink of war. We often discussed that a likely result of battle would have been more girls to go around amongst the survivors, but we quibbled rather than acted, & slept alone in our cold beds dreaming of glory by Ami Tallman (Los Angeles, 2nd Cannons, 2007, ed. Of 500, $28.00 softbound) is a series of drawings of interiors, occasionally interrupted by men in uniform, that tells the story of a young aristocratic heir to an English country estate who abandons his manor when coerced by a fetching young member of the Red Cross into taking up trench warfare. The book follows his recollections from the field regarding his old family pile.

Tallman is a Los Angeles-based painter, and her paintings full color and full-paged and more add to the lusciousness of the interiors, environments, architecture of this English country estate A wonderful transition from full memories to partial ones where words had to fill in the blanks, and yet there are always blanks. This story almost without words, but always hungry for words. A commemorative piece for someone who went before. Beautifully designed and printed. A must!and probably the longest title you could ever find. Available from 2nd Cannons