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 […]

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 […]