limpets

March 25, 2017

The Keyhole Limpet Magical Necklace

Nestucca Spit Press is excited to join with Astoria-based Sea Creations to produce and distribute The Keyhole Limpet Magical Necklace.

A keyhole limpet is a marine sea snail that has a conical shell. It lives on intertidal rocks and eats algae as it scrapes along the surface. The average keyhole limpet gets hit by 8000 waves a day and can exert up to 80 pounds of pressure on a rock. When keyhole limpets die, many of their shells end up on secret Oregon beaches, where obsessed humans (and some dogs) hunt for them and amass astonishing collections that defy reasoning.

Many collectors swear the shells of keyhole limpets frequently bestow magical powers if worn around the neck. These powers include clairvoyance, clarity, presence, higher math, philanthropy, healing, sagacity, spiritual transformation, incantations, romantic advice, charming eccentricity and creative inspiration. The wearer merely needs to hold the shell aloft, look through the keyhole, open the mind…and keep looking until…something…unlocks…

The Keyhole Limpet Magical Necklace is 100% guaranteed grown and harvested organically on the Oregon Coast. Suitable for humans ages 1-101, dogs, too. The necklaces cost $5.99 each or two for ten bucks. A bulk discount rate is also available for retailers, shamans or other individuals. Just imagine how popular and clairvoyant you’d be if everyone in your workplace or social circle was wearing keyhole limpets around their necks. To order, contact NSP through the web site. We also are willing to donate necklaces for fundraisers.

[themify_col grid=”2-1 first”]Single Keyhole Limpet Shell Necklace
$5.99 (+ $2 shipping)

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2 for $10 (+ $2 shipping)

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The Old Crow

Book Club

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In December of 2020, author Matt Love moved to Portland to care for his elderly father.

Returning to the Rose City jolted Love after 23 years residing on the Oregon Coast. In the Sellwood neighborhood where he lived, Love met a homeless man named Mark. They formed a friendship over literature and the unforeseen magical discoveries in street libraries. They created The Old Crow Book Club, and yes, sometimes that involved drinking Old Crow on a sidewalk.

The club also included several other Sellwood homeless men and women cut from John Steinbeck's Cannery Row cloth.

In due course, Love learned the members' stories of homelessness and how they survived. He wondered what happened to his beloved state of Oregon and attempted to help Mark get off the streets only to run up against the seemingly futile policies to address the crisis.

Along the way, he had the best conversations about books in his life and wrote The Old Crow Book Club, where he recounts his interactions with the homeless people in his neighborhood and offers some suggestions how to alleviate what he considers the greatest man-made American humanitarian disaster of his adult life.

The Old Crow Book Club is available for purchase here and select independent bookstores in Oregon.

Choice Cuts

of Oregon Fiction

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Choice Cuts of Oregon Fiction by Matt Love contains 20 stories, all set in Oregon. The cast of characters includes a depressed Santa Claus, Steve Prefontaine, Jack Ramsay's fast break offense, socialist squirrels, a clearcut, a dead deer, a junior high football team, a high school tennis player, a dissipated teacher, a man who evolves into a beaver, a homeless vet, a jilted preacher, a double date to a prom, rural degenerates, a wily caterer, and much more.

The publication of the collection culminates a quarter century of the author's writing about Oregon and rambling around the state.

Choice Cuts is available for purchase here, through Amazon, or select independent bookstores in Oregon.

The Savage

of State Street

Nestucca Spit Press is proud to present The Savage of State Street: The Thieving and Literary Lives of Smoky Epley. He is the greatest unheralded writer in Oregon history and also one of its more mediocre, colorful and persistent thieves.

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In 1973, Oregon State University Press published Men in Exile: An Anthology of Creative Writing by Inmates of the Oregon State Penitentiary. Twenty-two of Smoky Epley's pieces appeared in the book.

Smoky spent most of his adult life in state and federal prisons for robbery. In 2008, during one of his brief stints of freedom, Smoky became friends with Matt Love, an Oregon author and publisher. They met after Love discovered Men in Exile and wrote a newspaper column about the landmark book. Smoky read the column and reached out.

He returned to prison in 2009 after forging a check. Upon his release in 2011, Love encouraged Smoky to write a memoir. He completed half of Auto before dying in February of 2013.