Email to Amanda: Those damn NOAA folks have changed the CONE. We can’t obsess over the lit­eral draw­ing of a cone, and an uncer­tain one at that. I adored the “cone of uncer­tainty” aspect of hur­ri­cane liv­ing. Well, screw them. Jane is in high hur­ri­cane mode, get­ting ready to leave town if nec­es­sary and all that. Having […]

Dammit, I don’t have time for a stu­pid hur­ri­cane right now. Earl begone and take Fiona with you. We still have gunk on the front porch ready to go to stor­age and then there’s this whole dry­ing out under the house thing going on, too. And there’s not a decent flash­light in the house, even though over 200 C-​batteries currently […]

San­ity hint for blog­gers: Don’t look up your “Last Refer­rers”. It will make you crazy. Thanks to short­stats, I know who you are and I saw what you did. Seems my LR’s were mega­porn­stash — related. Gross, yuck. Oh well, how­ever some­one got here … I sup­pose the impor­tant aspect is the visit itself, not the high­way route. But that […]

I speak, of course, of the “body politic.” It’s a pun and a ter­ri­ble one at that. After quizzing sev­eral artist friends of sim­i­lar age to my own, I’ve come to a star­tling con­clu­sion. The single-​most sig­nif­i­cant inhibitor to true cre­ative, non-​stop, start-​to-​finish, pro­duc­tive qual­ity time in the stu­dio for women over 50? Hot Flashes. Men have no clue […]

At THE EMILY HARVEY FOUNDATION (New York) Sep­tem­ber 17, 2010 6:30 to 9:30PM Announc­ing a Book Launch for The Eve of Fluxus: A Fluxmem­oir by Bil­lie Maci­u­nas Visit The Eve of Fluxus online and order your book now. The Eve of Fluxus: A Fluxmem­oir Arbiter Press, Win­ter Park, Florida, 2010 The Eve of Fluxus: A Fluxmem­oir reflects Bil­lie Maci­u­nas’ unique […]

Taken from an email to Amanda: Went to grade school with a boy named Titsworth. And a girl named, I swear to God, Frankie Lookey*. She had flam­ing red curly hair. I have a won­der­ful story for you about her: Her brother lived in the attic, pull down stairs so it was lit­tle more than a crawl space… he was high school […]

non-​flammable flux remover in stock

We here in Nawth Carohline-​ah occa­sion­ally suf­fer from Arts Depri­va­tion. In order to fund our quest for visual stim­u­la­tion, some addi­tional resources prove nec­es­sary, even absolute. So some of us will meet at Emerge Gallery in Greenville for Pitt County Arts Council’s meet­ing of the mon­e­tary minds to learn all about Regional Artist Pro­gram Grant […]

I can’t reveal the details yet. Will wait for response from Berwick Insti­tute before con­tin­u­ing with dia­log for “Peo­ple in Space” pro­posal. The pos­si­bil­i­ties! Oh the pos­si­bil­i­ties! A 2010 Fluxus Hap­pen­ing in Sin­ga­pore. Fluxus in Sin­ga­pore. How absolutely ter­rific a prospect that is. The Peo­ple in Space effort seems to oddly par­al­lel or, at the very least […]

The heat causes lunacy. Sun­shine and clouds mixed. Very hot. Heat index near 110F. High near 100F. Winds WSW at 10 to 20 mph. Truly… and to prove my insan­ity, let me copy/​paste my Sun­day morn­ing email mes­sage to dear Mary in Arkansas: Every­one needs to make a flux case. Old fish­ing tackle boxes make great flux […]

Accord­ing to the FluxNexus, Cecil Touchon’s Fluxus Institute’s Grad­u­ate Stud­ies Pro­gram infor­ma­tion is now avail­able online. It seems appro­pri­ate that I enlist in such a pro­gram hav­ing not quite com­pleted my Mas­ters study at East Car­olina Uni­ver­sity due to lack of inter­est on my part. Got rather tired of writ­ing my the­sis which involved research­ing the post-​WWII […]

GLENN BECK, HOST: You know, Vil­sack said that it is teach­able moment here. Hot root beer? Great! Hot root beer? Yes, go ahead. What are you hid­ing behind the cam­era, Oscar? Like a hot root beer? Thank you very much. It’s a teach­able moment. A year ago, we had a beer sum­mit. I’m an alco­holic, recov­er­ing. Yes. So, we will have a root […]

From Weird Ani­mal News: “The don­key screamed and chil­dren cried,” regional police spokes­woman Lar­isa Tuchkova told AFP. “No-​one had the brains to call police.”

Appar­ently Olber­mann came out of his vaca­tion bliss to respond to the tragedy that is Faux News treat­ment of Shirley Sherrod’s career. It is time for every­one to lis­ten to what they are say­ing, stand up against the racists who are paid by Rupert Mur­dock to spew hatred and fear. Here is the text of his Special […]

Yes, it’s true, right here in just a few min­utes, Assem­blag­ist will present a dou­ble blog post, oh my god. Hang on, gotta’ run to Trac­tor Sup­ply for dog food first but when I return Dou­ble Blog Post, Oh MY God! What does it mean? Dou­ble Rain­bow, oh my God!

I wear gloves when prun­ing rose bushes. Obvi­ously. We planted two rose bushes in honor of Mom’s 90^th birth­day five years ago. Pur­chased at Plant and See in Greenville, NC, one bush remained small and insignif­i­cant due to lack of care and the other, a tea hybrid heir­loom vari­ety, spread across the picket fence like kudzu. It […]

The topic? Bul­lies. Been think­ing about grade school through high school, try­ing to remem­ber who pushed peo­ple around at Echols Grade School, Kim­mons Junior High or North­side. It’s odd to recall cliques 40 years later, hell, who am I kid­ding… 50 years later. Don’t groups begin to form around first grade? Friends come and go, few rela­tion­ships remain […]

Mas­sive over­haul of stu­dio begun a week ago and still incom­plete as I type. It’s about emp­ty­ing boxes of ephemera and cat­a­loging — fil­ing each piece of paper… all the while enter­tain­ing my grand­bal­loons who make every­thing fun and worth­while. Ollie goes to PBSkids​.org and plays online while I sort and stack. Emmett dances the Boy Dance, Four Year Old […]

Hello all, the art call for the next exhi­bi­tion of A Book About Death in Omaha, is July 20. Please see: http://​www​.abook​about​death​om​aha​.blogspot​.com/ Hope you can all con­tribute and make this exhi­bi­tion at the RNG gallery some­thing great. Please post this on your pro­file, blogs and send the infor­ma­tion to any art writers/​journalists you know or know of… […]

Part Two of a Series I started this tale a few days ago and inter­rup­tions keep pil­ing up on top of each other like bad news on elec­tion day — affect­ing my abil­ity to get on with the story. The Saga con­tin­ues as I enter the Junior High School Age. Winthrop Rock­e­feller wres­tled con­trol of the Arkansas leg­isla­tive process from Orval […]

Part 1 of a Series My polit­i­cal past sur­prises most peo­ple. I believe it is the extent of activ­ity pre-​1974 that con­tains the cul­tural hic­cup in most minds. I grew up as the final child in a series of three. Birth order deter­mines per­cep­tion of the world. Don’t kid your­self, it truly does. My par­ents dif­fered greatly from my sister’s. […]

In what must be viewed as a truly fluxs​.us action in Atlanta GA, I give you: What must be deemed a “Cit­i­zen Bar­ber — Beauty Shop Response” in Atlanta GA to the Gulf of Mex­ico British Petro­leum Drilling Dis­as­ter: Using hair to sop up the oil spill! Genius. Grab that gunk of hair like it’s some kind unfin­ished casse­role in […]

Okay then my dear ones, this Fri­day, June 25^th, is Take Your Dog to Work Day. The event, spon­sored by Pet Sit­ters Inter­na­tional, promises to be quite the enter­tain­ing. If you go to the web­site, you can reg­is­ter your dog, your place of work, and post phở­tos of That Spe­cial Day. I don’t know what kind […]

For the lat­est NOW I’m HIP LooK, seek no fur­ther. IUOMA shirts are now avail­able online and they’re are Café­Press qual­ity, so you know they’re good for you. IUOMA Shirts and Stuff! Buy now! Save later! With a most gra­cious nod to Ruud Janssen who hath pre­pared for us this bounty, I give you… The T-​Shirts… The won­der of […]