#wayzgoose

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[uwmspeccoll]

A Proverbial Feathursday

The contents and linocuts of Australian artist and fine-press printer Mike Hudson’s (1939-2021) As Dead as the Proverbial… uses the extinct Dodo (Raphus cucullatus), a flightless bird that once inhabited the island of Mauritius, to highlight the fact that in today’s age animals are still going extinct. The book consists of a variety of writings, from encyclopedia entries and magazine articles to the author’s own musings about the fate of the Dodo. In a progressive countdown, we see the bird's life cycle that is also representative of its approach toward extinction, as it progresses from a simple egg on the title page, loses feathers, and eventually becomes a singular feather.

The book’s title references the proverb: ‘as dead as a dodo bird’ and the title on the book's cover is surrounded by the names of Australian animals that are also at risk of extinction and could soon become the object of their own proverb. The endpapers include the names of other endangered Australian species, to further emphasize the potential for not just one animal like the Dodo to go extinct, but also countless others.

As Dead as the Proverbial… was printed in 1989 at Mike Hudson's Wayzgoose Press in Katoomba, Australia in an edition of 75 copies signed by the printers. The text was typeset by Hudson's long-time partner Jadwiga Jarvis (1947-2021) in Monotype Baskerville and Times New Roman, and the pages of endangered species set in a variety of Garamond types, all printed on Mohawk Letterpress paper. The design and linocuts are by Hudson. Our copy is from the collection of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick.

View another book from Wayzgoose Press.

View more Feathursday posts.

– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

[safyresky]

Yoooo you went to a paper craft fair? That's so cool! I've been collecting stuff to try to make some because I remember having a lot of fun doing it as a kid and have seen people do some super neat stuff with it. What was the fair like??

It was small and local but very cool! It was billed as a "book arts fair" with just under 50 vendors, all of which who did book crafts/paper craft in some way shape or form. There were tons of vendors who made their own paper, bound their own books, used letter presses to do ART (I got some very fun prints), one woman made her own INK. She was super friendly!

It was thrown by the Grimsby Wayzgoose, which to my understanding is a local collective of artists who do letterpress art and book crafts and paper craft! It was really neat! They publish an anthology every year, and we have a lot of their stuff in our collections @ the rare books library I work at! That's why we went, lol. You can read more about them and the anthologies specifically here :) I wish I had more info for you but alas! I am not an expert! I just think it neat!

BUT YEAH it was really cool! Drive was LONG, Grimsby is by Niagara so it was like 4 hours from Eastern Ontario, but deffs worth it. We all enjoyed it and seeing all of the hand made paper and books and INKS!!!!! WAS AMAZING! I bought a bookmark that was hand made paper and all it's very pretty:

Ding dang HAND MADE! It feels THICK! It's so cool. I have some OTHER photos under the cut for you!

I didn't take photos of the actual booths and what not because I was very much uh. Distracted by the THINGS! But have some THINGS!

One of the first things they had was a pre-made piece of paper we put into a mini press and got as a souvenir, it looks like this:

the little press was SOO CUTE!

Then they also gave us a souvenir matchbook, handmade and printed on a letter press. They apparently do this every year and this one was about wizards (topical!)

Anyway, I still have the program and here are all the vendors that were there! They more or less all have socials/instas/what have you and all do some form of book art--binding, paper making, crafting, etc. etc.

It also had a little blurb on the anthologies specifically!

We've deffs shared some photos of the anthologies on our insta (and other cool stuff, if rare books/special collections is your jam DEFFS check it out, our social media person posts ALL THE DAMN TIME and we have SO MUCH COOL SHIT), I'm gonna do a quick scroll and see hang on a sec

OKAY NEVERMIND APPARENTLY WE HAVEN'T POSTED THEM ON THE INSTA???? Wildin, I remember my fellow LT taking photos of them bc they're pretty cool. But I'll grab some photos when I'm in tomorrow! I think I'm free from desk duty so I can roam the vaults and share some of the cool papercrafts inside the anthologies :3

[cyclesprefectpress]

[video description: recording of letterpress printing in a clamshell-action press. the press opens on a hinge, with a relief surface fixed to one side of the V and the paper placed on the other. as the hinge opens, the rollers pass over the relief surface and distribute ink across the raised parts; as the hinge closes, the relief material comes in contact with the paper. each card is placed in register inside the press and removed after printing by hand, as the hinge opens and closes. This small notecard is printed with a small illustration of a trumpeter, and HALLOO in large type that fades from pink to blue across the page. end description.]

📣 📣 Getting ready for Tacoma Wayzgoose this Saturday, 11-4, at the Moore library branch in Tacoma! Steamroller printing, an equipment swap, printing demos at every table, etc etc. I’m only going to be there Saturday BUT it’s open 11-7 on Friday as well 📣📣 Come see everybody and grab one of these shouty guys with a little embossing demo :)

[inthefallofasparrow]

Round 43, Round 44, Round 45 & Round 46, Round 47, Round 48

[starpointestudio]

Fancy a pre-conference workshop at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum's Wayzgoose? Join me on Friday November 4 for “Wood Engraving: Devilishly Detailed Letterpress Initials”. Wayzgoosers will also get a reproduction of my Firefly engraving on a 1" button! Hope to see you there!

Register: https://woodtype.org/pages/wayzgoose

#seed #woodengraving #letterpress #initials #workshop

[artofcompost]

Three poets walk into a bar

and read to their unsuspecting admirers. Because troubadours gotta trouve. I’m excited for this tour with Jim Johnstone & Klara du Plessis: Montreal QC ~ 7pm on 17 Oct. @ Drawn & Quarterly Halifax NS ~ 7pm on 19 Oct. @ Wilson Common Room, U. of King’s College LaHave NS ~ 4pm on 20 Oct. @ LaHave River Books Kentville NS ~ 7pm on 21 Oct. as part of the Gaspereau Press Wayzgoose Moncton NB ~…

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 8.24

Holidays

Bartholomew Fair (UK)

Flag Day (Liberia)

Flitting Appreciation Day

Gaura Parba (Nepal)

International Day Against Intolerance, Discrimination and Violence Based on Musical Preferences, Lifestyle and Dress Code (UN)

International Strange Music Day

Kobe Bryant Day (Los Angeles)

Love a Geek Day

National #IAM911 Day

National Danny Day

National Emory Day

National Hydropower Day

National Knife Day

National Maryland Day

National Parks Day (Costa Rica)

National SKAM Artist Day

National Waffle Iron Day

Nostalgia Night (Uruguay)

Osiris Nativity (Ancient Egypt)

Pluto Demotion Day

Sam Spade Day

Schaferlauf (Germany)

Shooting Star Day

Single-Parent Family Day

Vesuvius Day

Waratambar (Thanksgiving; Papua New Guinea)

Wayzgoose (End-of-Summer Party)

Weather Complaint Day

We Love Memoirs Day

William Wilberforce Day

Winter Barley Day (French Republic)

World Gujarati Language Day

World Trainer’s Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Can-Opener Day

National Peach Pie Day

National Waffle Day

4th Thursday in August

National Bra Fitting Day [4th Thursday]

National Burger Day (a.k.a. Mr. Hyde National Burger Day; UK) [Thursday before August bank holiday]

Independence Days

Russia (from USSR, 1991)

Ukraine (from USSR, 1991)

Feast Days

Abbán of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Alex Colville (Artology)

Arkwright (Positivist; Saint)

Aubrey Beardsley Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Aurea of Ostia (Christian; Saint)

Bartholomew the Apostle (Roman Catholic, Anglican) [mead drinkers, cheese merchants] *

Day of Our Lady of Sanity (Pagan)

Festival of Mania (Ancient Rome)

The Great In-Betweeny (Muppetism)

Gunnlöð Festival (Norse)

Irchard (a.k.a. Erthad) of Scotland (Christian; Saint)

Jeanne-Antide Thouret (Christian; Saint)

Lavinia Fontana (Artology)

Luna Festival (Ancient Rome)

Maria Micaela Desmaisieres (Christian; Saint)

Massa Candida (Martyrs of Utica, a.k.a. The White Mass; Christian; Martyrs)

Mundus Patet (Roman harvest feast)

Owen (Audoin) of Rouen (Christian; Saint) [Innkeepers]

Pluto Demotion Grieving Day (Pastafarian)

Willka Raymi (Ancient Incan; Peru)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Alice’s Restaurant (Film; 1969)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Film; 1930)

Buddy the Gee Man (WB LT Cartoon; 1935)

Chronic Town, by R.E.M. (EP; 1982)

The Facts of Life (TV Series; 1979)

Fantastic Voyage (Film; 1966)

Frank, by Squeeze (Album; 1989)

Get Together, recorded by The Youngbloods (Song; 1966)

Grace, by Jeff Buckley (Album; 1994)

Gravity and Grace, by Simone Weil (Philosophical Thoughts; 1947)

They Happytime Murders (Film; 2018)

The Harp in the South, by Ruth Park (Novel; 1948)

Jay and Silent Bob Stroke Back (Film; 2001)

Look What You Made Me Do, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2017)

Love Me Tender, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1956)

Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins (Novel; 2010) [#3]

Oh! The Grandeur, by Andrew Bird with Bowl of Fire (Album; 1999)

Pump Up the Volume (Film; 1990)

Rock ’N’ Roll High School (Film; 1979)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard (Play; 1966)

Saludos Amigos (Disney Animated Film; 1942)

Tattoo You, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1981)

Teenage Dream, by Katy Perry (Album; 2010)

3 Ring Wing-Ding (WB LT Cartoon; 1968)

Tortilla Soup (Film; 2001)

Violin and Piano Sonata (K526), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Sonata; 1787)

The Witches (Film; 1990)

Today’s Name Days

Bartholomäus, Isolde, Michaela (Austria)

Aurea, Bariša, Bartol, Bartolomej, Bartul, Zlata (Croatia)

Bartoloměj (Czech Republic)

Bartholomæus (Denmark)

Albert, Berta, Pärt, Pärtel (Estonia)

Bertta, Perttu (Finland)

Barthélémy (France)

Bartholomäus, Isolde, Michaela (Germany)

Aitolia, Eftihis (Greece)

Bertalan (Hungary)

Bartolomeo, Genesio, Giuliano (Italy)

Bertolds, Bertrams, Berts, Bertulis, Boleslavs (Latvia)

Alicija, Baltramiejus, Baltrus, Rasuolė, Viešvilas (Lithuania)

Belinda, Bertil (Norway)

Bartłomiej, Cieszymir, Jerzy, Joanna, Malina, Michalina (Poland)

Bartolomej (Slovakia)

Bartolomé, Emilia (Spain)

Bartolomeus (Sweden)

Baird, Bard, Bart, Barth, Bartholomew, Bowen, Evan, Ewan, Keon, Owen (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 236 of 2024; 129 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 34 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 9 (Jia-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 7 Elul 5783

Islamic: 7 Safar 1445

J Cal: 26 Hasa; Fiveday [26 of 30]

Julian: 11 August 2023

Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter

Positivist: 12 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Arkwright]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 64 of 94)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 3 of 32)

[brookston]

Holidays 8.24

Holidays

Bartholomew Fair (UK)

Flag Day (Liberia)

Flitting Appreciation Day

Gaura Parba (Nepal)

International Day Against Intolerance, Discrimination and Violence Based on Musical Preferences, Lifestyle and Dress Code (UN)

International Strange Music Day

Kobe Bryant Day (Los Angeles)

Love a Geek Day

National #IAM911 Day

National Danny Day

National Emory Day

National Hydropower Day

National Knife Day

National Maryland Day

National Parks Day (Costa Rica)

National SKAM Artist Day

National Waffle Iron Day

Nostalgia Night (Uruguay)

Osiris Nativity (Ancient Egypt)

Pluto Demotion Day

Sam Spade Day

Schaferlauf (Germany)

Shooting Star Day

Single-Parent Family Day

Vesuvius Day

Waratambar (Thanksgiving; Papua New Guinea)

Wayzgoose (End-of-Summer Party)

Weather Complaint Day

We Love Memoirs Day

William Wilberforce Day

Winter Barley Day (French Republic)

World Gujarati Language Day

World Trainer’s Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Can-Opener Day

National Peach Pie Day

National Waffle Day

4th Thursday in August

National Bra Fitting Day [4th Thursday]

National Burger Day (a.k.a. Mr. Hyde National Burger Day; UK) [Thursday before August bank holiday]

Independence Days

Russia (from USSR, 1991)

Ukraine (from USSR, 1991)

Feast Days

Abbán of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Alex Colville (Artology)

Arkwright (Positivist; Saint)

Aubrey Beardsley Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Aurea of Ostia (Christian; Saint)

Bartholomew the Apostle (Roman Catholic, Anglican) [mead drinkers, cheese merchants] *

Day of Our Lady of Sanity (Pagan)

Festival of Mania (Ancient Rome)

The Great In-Betweeny (Muppetism)

Gunnlöð Festival (Norse)

Irchard (a.k.a. Erthad) of Scotland (Christian; Saint)

Jeanne-Antide Thouret (Christian; Saint)

Lavinia Fontana (Artology)

Luna Festival (Ancient Rome)

Maria Micaela Desmaisieres (Christian; Saint)

Massa Candida (Martyrs of Utica, a.k.a. The White Mass; Christian; Martyrs)

Mundus Patet (Roman harvest feast)

Owen (Audoin) of Rouen (Christian; Saint) [Innkeepers]

Pluto Demotion Grieving Day (Pastafarian)

Willka Raymi (Ancient Incan; Peru)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Alice’s Restaurant (Film; 1969)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Film; 1930)

Buddy the Gee Man (WB LT Cartoon; 1935)

Chronic Town, by R.E.M. (EP; 1982)

The Facts of Life (TV Series; 1979)

Fantastic Voyage (Film; 1966)

Frank, by Squeeze (Album; 1989)

Get Together, recorded by The Youngbloods (Song; 1966)

Grace, by Jeff Buckley (Album; 1994)

Gravity and Grace, by Simone Weil (Philosophical Thoughts; 1947)

They Happytime Murders (Film; 2018)

The Harp in the South, by Ruth Park (Novel; 1948)

Jay and Silent Bob Stroke Back (Film; 2001)

Look What You Made Me Do, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2017)

Love Me Tender, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1956)

Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins (Novel; 2010) [#3]

Oh! The Grandeur, by Andrew Bird with Bowl of Fire (Album; 1999)

Pump Up the Volume (Film; 1990)

Rock ’N’ Roll High School (Film; 1979)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard (Play; 1966)

Saludos Amigos (Disney Animated Film; 1942)

Tattoo You, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1981)

Teenage Dream, by Katy Perry (Album; 2010)

3 Ring Wing-Ding (WB LT Cartoon; 1968)

Tortilla Soup (Film; 2001)

Violin and Piano Sonata (K526), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Sonata; 1787)

The Witches (Film; 1990)

Today’s Name Days

Bartholomäus, Isolde, Michaela (Austria)

Aurea, Bariša, Bartol, Bartolomej, Bartul, Zlata (Croatia)

Bartoloměj (Czech Republic)

Bartholomæus (Denmark)

Albert, Berta, Pärt, Pärtel (Estonia)

Bertta, Perttu (Finland)

Barthélémy (France)

Bartholomäus, Isolde, Michaela (Germany)

Aitolia, Eftihis (Greece)

Bertalan (Hungary)

Bartolomeo, Genesio, Giuliano (Italy)

Bertolds, Bertrams, Berts, Bertulis, Boleslavs (Latvia)

Alicija, Baltramiejus, Baltrus, Rasuolė, Viešvilas (Lithuania)

Belinda, Bertil (Norway)

Bartłomiej, Cieszymir, Jerzy, Joanna, Malina, Michalina (Poland)

Bartolomej (Slovakia)

Bartolomé, Emilia (Spain)

Bartolomeus (Sweden)

Baird, Bard, Bart, Barth, Bartholomew, Bowen, Evan, Ewan, Keon, Owen (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 236 of 2024; 129 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 34 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 17 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 9 (Jia-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 7 Elul 5783

Islamic: 7 Safar 1445

J Cal: 26 Hasa; Fiveday [26 of 30]

Julian: 11 August 2023

Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter

Positivist: 12 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Arkwright]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 64 of 94)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 3 of 32)

[springtidepress]

Very excited the Tacoma Wayzgoose is back this year. The new location at Moore Library is going to be great. If you are interested in participating as a vendor, steamroller artist or much appreciated volunteer 👉🏽tacomawayzgoose.com 🌿 Huge thanks to @kingsbooks for 15 years of hosting, @tacomalibrary for providing a new home, @tacomaarts for funding, and @write.253 @coxswainpress @kingsbooks @yoshi.nakagawa36 @yukapetz for making it happen. 🌿 This year’s theme is renewal, and @bowerbox folium border was the perfect frame. (A little sad, but fitting, this bright green paper came from Johnson-Cox, a venerable Tacoma printing company that is closing.) #tacomawayzgoose #letterpress #bookarts #tacomaarts (at Tacoma, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CooTq_9rt99/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[christusleeft]

Savouring our Last Sail | SAILING WAYZGOOSE WARRIOR Ep. 41

[changingrelationsplacement]

Blog Entry No.5

10.04.22

Most of the work I have been doing since my last entry has involved writing social media content for Changing Relations and outreach through article-writing. I have found Alice Fuller (Digital Media Coordinator) really helpful throughout these tasks.

 Over the course of the placement, one article has been released in Wayzgoose magazine to encourage people to join the student social action group. I am planning another to get people to attend the exhibition which marks the end of the project. I have reached out to Palatinate but have not heard back yet. The first article was met with really encouraging feedback.

Initially, I felt a little out of my depth with writing the social media content as I was aware that I needed to engage with a certain audience and create an effect that would interest readers. I have become accustomed to the academic style of writing used for essays, so transforming my written voice into a more colloquial and catchy tone felt unnatural at first. This is something I feel has improved significantly with practice. Alice initially made slight changes to the drafts I submitted to make sure that they were good enough to publish, but recently they have remained the same from the drafts I put up on the Meta Business Suite to the published posts. Alice even emailed the other day thanking me for the ‘brilliant’ posts I had done for the ‘Let’s Talk About Relationships’ competition.

I began the process by emailing the drafts over in the form of a word document, but have subsequently become an editor on the Changing Relations Facebook page, learning to use the planner on the Meta Business Suite. In this way, I feel as though my initial objectives of refining my writing for a non-academic audience, and learning how to use digital technology, have been met.

 I have also more recently been working with Pollyanna Turner, writing content for a different project (Who Wears the Trousers) which is taking place in Hilde Bede.

 Reflecting back on my time spent with Changing Relations, I have certainly been tested outside my comfort zone and I have learnt a great deal. I feel much more ready and confident with the idea of future employment. I know now that adjusting takes time, and how satisfying it is when you start to get things right. Although my placement will have ended by the time the exhibition which ends the LTAS project, I am looking forward to going to see what the end result is, and to also catch up with the people that I have been working with (most often remotely) over the past 8 months.

[uwmspeccoll]

It's Fine Press Friday!

For today’s Fine Press Friday post, our subject is Bound for the Goldfields, published by the Australia-based Wayzgoose Press in 1990 in an edition of 55 copies, another gift from the estate of book artist and collector Dennis Bayuzick. The original story was written by Charles Dickens for his weekly journal Household Words in June 1855 and the Wayzgoose edition was designed and illustrated with linocuts and wood engravings by Wayzgoose founder Mike Hudson (1939-2021). Ours is a review copy, meaning that this specific book was originally sent out to someone to be reviewed for publication before it was actually distributed.

According to the title page, the story told in this book is a “true account of a journey from Melbourne to Castlemaine by a carrier of supplies to the goldfields.” A journey like this was long and harrowing, as described in the book’s text, which is printed vertically as part of the grassy landscape, and the wood/linocuts provide an excellent visualization of where the traveler physically is within the story being told. Readers will see many trees as the subject walks through forests, sees the night sky, and even the destination of the traveler as he arrives: the tents of those working in the gold fields.

This book was hand-set by Hudson's long-time partner and Wayzgoose Press co-founder Jadwiga Jarvis (1947-2021) in 14pt Monotype Baskerville and was printed on a Western Proof Press using Mohawk Letterpress Paper. Mike Hudson Bound the edition, 46 copies of which were in printed hessian fabric with leather thongs, as shown here.

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick.

View more Fine Press Friday Posts.

-- Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

[gofordrakgo]

Wayzgoose

Wayzgoose: "A party annually given to workers by an employer" 

(Drakgo Drabble #4)

She smelled blueberries right before the glint of sun off the golden pie-eating medallion hit her eyes.

“Harvey’s with Davis, Shego,” Drakken whined. “It’s gym class all over again!”

Sighing, she sat up, glancing around at the henchmen, partnered up and already tying their legs together for the ridiculous race.

She couldn’t believe he never realized the same thing happened every August twenty-fourth. As long as none of the henchmen squealed that she paid them not to partner with him she’d keep doing it.

She got two minutes a year with his arm around her shoulders. She liked those minutes.

[cathygeha]

REVIEW

Savage Strike by Chris Mares

A Griff Savage Adventure #2

Griff finds himself once again in a situation. What kind of situation? One that has him protecting a friend or two, making a few new friends and using skills he no doubt picked up in the French Legion to extricate himself from dangerous situations that Tim and others find themselves in. This story takes place in the heat and humidity of Thailand – a place that is filled with jungles, tourists and dangerous creatures of many kinds.  

I find Griff still conflicted about what direction he wants his life to take. He has been a soldier and the flip side of being a soldier by taking up being Buddhist monk for several years. His training in both helps him in this story. He seems to be going with the flow and unsure where his life will take him as he seems to follow the path of least resistance. Often he finds himself in the midst of trouble, saving someone or giving in to the physical pleasures he tried to give up during his days of being a monk.  

This book has surprises, some twists and turns, more insight into Savage and quite a bit of fighting that show Griff has some signature moves he uses when dealing with those who want to harm or kill him or others.

Did I enjoy this book? Yes

Do I want to read more in this series? Yes

I believe there will be more books in this series and it seems Griff will be in Maine next time we catch up with him. I do wonder what he will be doing because at the end of book two he is on his way to Sweden ;)

Thank you to Wayzgoose for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42615669-savage-strike

BLURB

Drifter-with-a-past Griff Savage travels to Thailand to convince his childhood friend Tim to give up a noble but deadly pursuit—convincing local farmers to switch their crops from opium poppies to orchids. But nothing is simple in this endeavor, as Savage and Tim confront drug lords, contract killers, and police. As if that weren’t enough, Savage’s restlessness leads him to entanglements with a trail of women – which in turn put him in the path of a serial killer. Savage’s impulse is to protect all his friends and acquaintances. But who will protect him?

Author Bio: Chris Mares

I grew up in a village near Lewes, Sussex, in the UK. At eighteen I went to live on a kibbutz in Israel and my life changed for ever. It was an eye opening experience. I have subsequently lived and worked in France, Japan, and the US, where I currently live. I feel very lucky to have travelled and roamed the world when I did, before many places were overrun by tourists. I now live and work in Maine, a state that I love. I kayak, canoe, hike, camp, mush sled dogs, ride, ski, and snowboard. Currently I teach at the University of Maine which I enjoy very much. My current passion is music, especially playing the guitar and singing, something I never thought I would do in public, but I do.

[thewordwideweb]

Happy wayzgoose day!

Today’s Word of the Day is one of those little-known words you will probably never, ever use in regular conversation. So why am I bothering with the word “wayzgoose?” Well, a couple of reasons.

First, it’s an interesting, funny-sounding word, and I like interesting, funny-sounding words. And second, because we’re coming up on wayzgoose day! 

My friend Michael gets all the credit for turning me on to “wayzgoose.” I had never heard the word before. But that may be because I’ve never worked in a print shop. 

“Wayzgoose” (and there are numerous spellings, including waygoose, wayzegoose, wayz-goose, and even wake-goose) was an annual outing or feast thrown by a master printer for his workmen on or around St. Bartholomew’s Day, August 24th. Traditionally, the wayzgoose party marked the end of summer and the beginning of the season of working by candlelight.  It was held in conjunction with St. Bartholomew’s Day, because Saint Bart was, among other things, the patron saint of bookbinders and parchment makers. The wayzgoose tradition continues today among some U.S. and Canadian publishing companies. 

Okay, but why “wayzgoose” (or, as Chico Marx might have said, “I unnerstan’ why a wayzgoose, but why-a no wayz-chicken?”)? There are several theories. 

One of the most popular theories centers on Nathaniel Bailey’s “Universal Etymological English Dictionary” of 1731. Bailey defined “wayz” as a bundle of straw or the stubble left over in a field after a harvest. So a “wayz-goose” or “stubble goose” was a bird fattened on that straw, which was cooked and eaten at the party. The biggest problem with that theory is that the word had been spelled waygoose (without the “z”) for decades before Bailey’s dictionary came out. 

Another theory said it wasn’t a wayzgoose at all, but rather a “wake-goose,” and the “wake” was a dialect word meaning “to work by artificial light.” But the wake-goose spelling is fairly rare. 

Some say the goose found its wayz because the feast was originally held in Waes in the Low Countries (the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg). But that “Waes” was pronounced “waas,” not “wayz.” 

It seems likely that “wayzgoose” was borrowed from speakers in the Low Countries. There was a Dutch word, “wegshuis,” which meant a roadhouse or an inn, and could also be used to refer to a banquet. It’s possible the Englishmen had heard the word, but not seen it spelled, and “wayzgoose” was their best guess at the spelling. 

Oh, and here’s a fun fact: one more reason printers may hold the wayzgoose banquet on August 24th: that’s believed by some to be the day Gutenberg completed printing one of his first Bibles in 1456, using movable metal type. (Of course, that could be a wild wayzgoose chase, or just a honking great lie, as it is generally thought that Gutenberg’s very first printed bibles were available in 1454 or 55).