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FAMOUS EYESORE IN LIMBO
(NOT THE FUN KIND OF LIMBO)
MARCH 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
uh, hi office-types, this is your buddy Jacob Berendes from the famous visionary non-profit junk shoppe and rogues’ gallery HBML, in beautiful Worcester MA. For just under two years now we’ve been fanning the flames of confusion in this also-ran metropolis, selling cats’ heads, chinese newspapers, telephone books, and old trombones, and paying children to paste googley eyes on old National Geographics. Well, the shit is finally nearing the fan and threatening to hit, to the tune of that old rag “when the bank forecloses on the building your junk shop is in”. So we’re playing the waiting game and eyeing a potential hoof across town, and away from our current farcical but real address (420 pleasant st, which nonbelievers can google street view). It’s a mess, folks, it’s a mess, and just as things were really picking up in spectacular ways: this summer holds a coloring contest with our friends from PAPERRAD, our own line of fragrance (”ANIMAL INTERNET”), plus a designer breakfast cereal that turns milk blood red, a ton of arts shows, silk screening days, skill shares, and waay more ideas that are even worse ideas that those pretty bad ideas. Anyway, this whole “real estate fiasco” thing is really pulling the rug out and we’re scratching our heads and butts and rubbing our backs on trees trying to figure out “what now?”. Well, actually “how now?”. What I’m gingerly getting at is: any donations you might want to toss our way would greatly aid in our search for as-green if not greener pastures, and would generally increase the health points of THE GREATEST STORE EVER TOLD.
Gallerists, financiers, dowagers, patrons, eccentrics: please send letters of inquiry and a photocopy of your hands- both sides.
UPDATE:
people want to know “where does the money go” and if it will take us on a plane to aruba where we will thumb our noses (and other things) at the usses of the past (and the yous of the present). rest assured that any and all donation money will go into a fund to help us move, to find a new space in worcester, to be shut down for a short period, to pay first and last and security on the new place, basically, to give us a safety net. HBML has always worked incredibly close to the wire, and has never turned a profit, only a subsistance or at best a reinvested sum. all workers are volunteers, and we rely heavily on donated products. additionally if you would like to donate clothing, housewares, good books, action figures, cool music, or examples of your art (music writing movies clothing jewelry toys etc.), please email jacob att fujichia dott com.