{"id":4605,"date":"2013-02-27T22:36:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T03:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=4605"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:28:33","slug":"sir-lizard-threw-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/sir-lizard-threw-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Lizard Threw a Party."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sirlizard\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For Christmas last year, Jason got me a subscription to Ugly Duckling Presse<\/a>, a Brooklyn-based publishing organization that produces trade editions for artists. Today, after a gloomy rainy day, (I got caught in the downfall twice and my umbrella fell victim to the gusty winds) I came home to a very welcoming package in the mail: the latest 6×6<\/a> issue from UDP. I can’t wait to dive into the poetry during tomorrow’s train ride into the bindery!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Christmas last year, Jason got me a subscription to Ugly Duckling Presse, a Brooklyn-based publishing organization that produces trade editions for artists. Today, after a gloomy rainy day, (I got caught in the downfall twice and my umbrella fell victim to the gusty winds) I came home to a very welcoming package in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[747,749,750,748],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","tag-6x6","tag-poetry","tag-subscription","tag-ugly-duckling-presse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1ch","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6055,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/20\/daily-glimpse-with-anna-11-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4605,"position":0},"title":"Daily Glimpse with Anna","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"June 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"DAY ELEVEN At 6:20 in the evening I was reading some Margaret Atwood and cuddling with Lima, while Anna just finished toning tissue to match some ugly computer-generated \"marbled\" paper.\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In "daily glimpse"","block_context":{"text":"daily glimpse","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/daily-glimpse\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"day11_meanna","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/day11_meanna-1024x512.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/day11_meanna-1024x512.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/day11_meanna-1024x512.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1550,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/frederique-morrel\/","url_meta":{"origin":4605,"position":1},"title":"Artist: Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Morrel","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"September 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This eccentric couple, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Morrel and Aaron Levin (with their three children and two Jack Russels), have created the most unusual collection of taxidermic creatures. 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