I loved this task. It was challenging and fun. When I was reading Georgi Johnson's proof for the task, I got excited because she said she wrote an essay about what everyone should know about moles. My excitement was cooled (but only a little) because I was hoping to learn more about mole the animal. Now, I did like her take on this task a lot, but I figured, you know what, people also need to know about moles! So, inspired by Georgi's work but also hoping to fill in a "homonymic gap" as it were, I wrote up a pamphlet entitled "Get to Know MOLES" and described some basic facts about moles, along with pictures. As I was writing the pamphlet, some authorial voices kept coming into my head. After the first draft, I pictured a lonely, embittered man sitting high in a Kafka-esque bureaucracy churning out educational pamphlets for the community, but nobody has oversight on his work, so he can write whatever he wants. And he can't help letting his personal life slip into the work. Which meant the second and final drafts of the pamphlet got awfully sad and weird.

Then I printed out ten copies of the pamphlet, and tore it into three panels. I hung each panel on "community spaces" in three nearby locations-- a nearby coffee shop (page 3), a nearby building with a cafe and bookstore (page 1) and the mail room area in my work building (page 2). I broke it up this way because these places are frequented by roughly the same groups of people and are well trafficked normally. Hopefully this means a slightly higher percentage chance that someone will be able to assemble the three pieces in the course of their normal routine (work mail room, coffee-time meetings, nearby lunch spot) but they will still have to work at it or have some luck. I'm sort of treating panel 2 as a trailhead--if someone from my office or another office in the building sees the mail room panel, it doesn't have a reference to SF0 on it, and panels one and three do. So hopefully it's interesting enough that they'll have an incentive to find the other panel(s) and if they do, they'll be rewarded with being able to find out more information. In any case, anyone who finds any of the panels in isolation is hopefully going to be completely mystified, yet also a little entertained.

I'll include links to the full pdf of the "Get To Know MOLES" pamphlet so anyone who wants to can download and have some fun. They'd make a great folded piece or a table tent. Also, I plan to create further pamphlets now in this series, you know, for fun. So I'm hoping to get suggestions of other simple home life or homeowner informational pamphlet subjects that people need to have. I'm thinking dutch elm disease or ants in the home. That way, I can make a larger, different kind of split text-- a series of pamphlets carefully numbered and spread around the city which will give valuable information, with a touch of sadness too. And maybe triumph? So, yeah, please feel free to comment with suggestions for future editions of Educational Pamphlets for the Community brought to you by Humanitarian Crisis and SF0, written and edited by a strange, sad little man.