There is a story about it, if you need that. It's here. But really, I think the picture contains everything you need to know. Mostly that bears are watching. And learning. And perhaps... preparing?

Mike's Floating House Concert is SOLD OUT, but the party doesn't end there. Please join us under the Golden Gate bridge:

Presidio Yacht Club
9p || No Cover
Fort Baker
Sausalito, CA 94965
(415) 332-2319
It's close to the Bay Area Discovery Museum near Fort Baker in the Marin Headlands.
Click here for printable directions

Mike Errico official site: http://www.errico.com

I've been on a George Saunders jag. I've now read almost everything he's written, and will go on to read the things he's read, too.

In his essay "Mr. Vonnegut in Sumatra," he comes to a new definition of art after reading Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five:

"I'd understood the function of art to be primarily descriptive: a book was a kind of scale model of life, intended to make the reader feel and hear and taste and think just what the reader had. Now I begand to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to 'real life' -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit." 

The essay is in a collection called The Braindead Megaphone. If you're interested in him, I would NOT start there.  I'd start with In Persuasion Nation, but hell, this isn't a book club.

Still, I recommend him, no matter what art you are pursuing.

George Saunders site: http://www.saunderssaunderssaunders.com/

Gig in Rhode Island, then return to make a pile of nuts and bolts look like something resembling this: