Street Date: Tuesday

In the record business, records are released on one day a week, called the "Street Date." Record stores get the records before street date, but they are not supposed to sell them before that date. If they are caught selling before street date, the distributor is supposed to not allow them to have records before street date again. In theory. Some distributors don't care, so long as other record stores don't squack.

Bishops seem to be in a similar boat, where new bishops are announced by Rome on Thursdays, is it?

So, I have decided to adopt a similar approach to posting art on the website: a street date. Now, it really is for me, because it will force me to think "uh oh, Tuesday is tomorrow, I better take some pictures and get them ready."

Also, I might cheat, and put stuff up between street dates. We'll see. That would be better than missing a street date.

In the record business, most distributors have two street dates a month. I like that, and thinking in terms of second and fourth is good, because the second and fourth Tuesdays are also dreaded street sweeping days, so the more I make those days special, the better chance I have of not forgetting to not park on one side of the street.

Now, in the art business, one generally has an opening, which I will try to figure out how to do. A cyberopening, in which you can come and sip some cyber crappy wine and eat some cyber waxy cheese and look at the cyber hipsters making sure they are seen on the cyber gallery circuit. Of course you can also run into some cyber friends, and then after the opening, you can all go out to a cyber bar and drink cyber Scotch. Sounds fun? You betchee.

No, a cyber opening will have to be something different. Something completely different. I am not sure what, but we will have a cyber opening. And not on street date, but on the Thursday after street date, so you can come in, get an early view of the art, then come back for the opening on Thursday.

You don't even have to wear black, although I have no problem with people wearing black. Sometimes I wear black. Not all that often, but sometimes.

Anyway, that is what is up.

The show that is tentatively scheduled to open tomorrow (well, actually Thursday, but the art will be posted tomorrow) is going to be sort of eclectic, if the photography goes well today. So far, we are still in the experimental stage of this stuff.