Sturgis Anniversary

My Sturgis hangover is finally over. I’ve caught up on my sleep, begun to eat real food again, and re-trained myself to postpone the first beer until 5:00 PM.

Our newest pinstriping book is nearly finished, all we need is a little help from our friends (and Artie’s friends).

What’s left in this void is work, pure and simple. Job number one is to finish the Pro Pinstripe book, a series of start-to-finish pinstriping sequences done with a lot of help from East Coast Artie and a group of his talented friends. At this point we have all the photos picked and laid out, but we’re waiting for Artie and his talented friends to get it in gear and write some captions to fill those little boxes below each photo. Anything they write is so much better than my own lame descriptions of what’s going on or why they guy used red instead of blue…. But of course there’s the wait.

Here we have Nubs of OCC fame, striping an electric guitar – just one of the sequences found in our new Pro Pinstripe book.

And between and betwixt all this Pinstriping work is the topic that’s really at the top of my list – The Sturgis Book. So far I’ve inventoried my photos, sent copies to various people like the crew from the Broken Spoke, and tried to cajole the staff from the Spoke and the Chip into putting our book on their web sites.

Ernie (he who had to stay after school one night in Sturgis) and I go back and forth with ideas for the book, and Scooter (master photographer) is on The Salt, so I can’t get all his photos yet.

The idea is to send the Pro Pinstriping book, and the Sturgis 70th Anniversary book, to the printer at the same time. All in the name of saving a buck or maybe three. The deadline looms. Christmas is indeed just around the corner. Damn, I’d better get to work.

The Sturgis 70th and Pro Pinstripe books are joined at the hip like Siamese twins, both gotta go to the printer at the same time.