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 […]

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 […]

I wear gloves when pruning rose bushes. Obviously. We planted two rose bushes in honor of Mom’s 90th 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.abookaboutdeathomaha.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 25th, 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 […]

Currently speaking, the obsession of this assemblagist is to fold books. Paperbacks, 1950s Reader’s Digests, NC geography textbooks from 1930s but of course you already know that if you read my blog. The difficult part of the process lies in constructing the covers for the books. I make the covers from all manner of items. The question […]

Over 200 books folded and fabulous. Found a copy of Joe McGinniss “The Selling of the President” in paperback — on my shelf from a U of A class in 1973, required reading and it MUST BE USED, will begin fluxing the book today. The list continues. Books repurposed and restored — mostly paperbacks circa 1950 – 1970 and not first editions (duh) in May 2010: […]

Found a letter seeking investors circa 1899 Madoffian scheme. for a remedy for the Grippe. This remedy, once purchased, could then be sold to all comers, everyone — everywhere — it was a germ fighting remedy. Nothing venture, nothing have. This bit of ephemera came via an ebay auction a couple years ago. It’s hard to buy decent ephemera on ebay these days — oh the […]

Hand Dancing, DC-style, begins to influence Transitional Fluxus in Many Indeterminate Ways. As we prepare for the New New Flux Paradigm, let us not forget the Univac 120 Fluxus Digital Media Transitioner. My thoughts and admiration today — sent out to Litsa Spathi of whom I do not know but greatly GREATLY admire. Occasionally, genius transpires and breathes […]

In the ongoing quest to focus the eastern NC ass-end of the Lesser Dismal Swamp, artists note the absolute confines of regional geographic limitations represented by death flux intimations. Yes. Seriously. How can we form cubist flux from that which is rounded? Not available. A recent happening on Brown St. 1. The artist walks on right […]

Am currently amassing clipart from personal collection to be included in a Fluxual Cubist Collage Mega-Structure Artistic Form. For fun and entertainment, one need only turn to page 242. It’s a compendium of creative collusion. As a fluXus person, most of my hourly endeavors seem illusionary. The purpose of art is what? It is to entertain. It is to […]
Mom talked to me today. I know, she’s dead. The empty chair in the kitchen reminds me. Today when my arthritis got the better of me, I began to despair of ever having a normal day, a regular day without the requisite two hours of waking up my bones. Lumbar fusion with screws and rods over 20 years ago — my spine began […]

International Fluxhibition #4 is online and might I say, Cecil Touchon has done quite an amazing job. While a formal introduction (shaking of hands and how-are-you?s) does not yet exist between us, the use of “Mr. Touchon” seems a bit formal here so I shall assume we are now on a first name basis. There’s a new Flux Case project and […]

