Spin-Off Merchandise
A writer needs spin-off merchandise to sell at
street fairs and crafts shows where he has a booth.
Coffee mugs, T-shirts, bumper stickers. Funeral home fans.
The money is in the paraphernalia. The Cracker Table.
The Cracker Chair. Like the Bowditch Chair in American Archeology
at Harvard held by Gordon Willey. In Scrib’s case, an actual chair.
An executive typing chair with Chinese leather, rotting at
the armrests from flop-sweat.
The Cracker Table is recipes from the kitchen of Cacoëthes Scribendi.
Like Full Box: 100 Years of Fishing and Boatbuilding in
If only Scrib had been smart enough to write a cookbook.