My mother named my cat “Alice B. Tok­las”. I’ve been inter­ested in out­siders ever since. The Out­sider mag­a­zine is my new favorite.

All I wanted to do was drink some seri­ous cof­fee and occupy a Barcalounger as I spent a cou­ple hours read­ing Cart Snap­pers, Lil­ian Flambo’s lat­est romance novel about a hap­less gro­cery store clerk and her illicit affair with the pro­duce man. Every bit of me ached with cold as I’d just spent the last cou­ple hours dri­ving from Howdy […]

2009 Hur­ri­cane names: Ana Bill Claudette Danny Erika Fred Grace Henri Ida Joaquin Kate Larry Mindy Nicholas Odette Peter Rose Sam Teresa Vic­tor Wanda

Jack dogs nip­ping at your nose. Tiny sluts with their flies all aglow… Truly, ya’ll, the Mayflies hatched in a superb fash­ion after the last rain shower. Gabil­lions of them, swarm­ing the back porch — they get into your eyes, hair, *gag me* mouth and if you don’t know Mayflies, you don’t know Nymphs. They are so tragic, a gentle […]

Gonna’ get me some real hands-​on teach­ing, a refresher course — of course — from Sam Wall, local artist. I’ve for­got­ten the basics of cross-​hatching, con­tours and can’t seem to remem­ber where my erasers are stored. her. ha. *Apture changed itself a few days back, I’m not so crazy about the new look but am get­ting used to it.

It’s so deli­cious when one explores genius online. This “Screw You I’m Fifty-​Two” post just made my day. 11) There are some peo­ple you just have to walk away from, and never look back. These can be any­one from a pushy sales­per­son to your own par­ents. 14) Also when it comes to your kids, you might as […]

Some­times the peo­ple who love you the most will go to extra­or­di­nary lengths to please you. Let’s all give a round of applause for Rob’s dili­gent ebay quest to find me a box filled with ephemera — because said search resulted in the most amaz­ing con­glom­er­a­tion of odd­i­ties ever, and I mean EVER, found on ebay in one of my […]

Fin­ished my five words. It’s remark­ably dif­fi­cult to paint a 3“x3” can­vas. Don’t let them tell you differently.

New fun place for you and me. Blip​.TV Grab a chunk of his­tor­i­cal cin­ema. For me, the Kennedy blips are fas­ci­nat­ing. What’s your favorite? Lots of junk on there but search around and you’ll likely find some real gems.

The most dif­fi­cult tasks for any assem­blag­ist most likely involve brevity. Self-​editing one’s con­glom­er­a­tional activ­i­ties. It is deter­min­ing that one sin­gu­lar item which must become rep­re­sen­ta­tional of the whole, the mass which the artist is seek­ing to con­tain. For me, there is never a sin­gu­lar, always a plural. When I wish to engage in a dis­ci­pli­nary action, brevity is […]

Took my lit­tle ol’ Amer­i­can Save Us Now check from Mr. Obama and went straight to Michaels for a major pur­chase of Tools and sup­plies. That’s a cap­i­tal T because of the impor­tance of such objects. When pur­chas­ing power tools at Lowe’s, one must com­pare RPMs, volt­age, wattage, bright shiny alu­minum or red or orange col­ored han­dles and battery […]

Some peo­ple want a Porsche, oth­ers lust for cloth­ing or a large house, per­haps a trip to Paris. Me? What do I dream of own­ing? It’s sim­ple, really. A work from the hands and mind of Emilio Mer­lina. I can spend time thumb­ing through my giant com­pedium of Max Ernst work and then mogate over to the book shelves and pick […]

Born April 13, 1917 Died April 30, 2009 Momma slipped qui­etly away yes­ter­day morn­ing. I don’t have much expe­ri­ence writ­ing obit­u­ar­ies. My Daddy was Robert Jacob Heinold. My sis­ter was Ann Eliz­a­beth Heinold Cut­ler, my brother was John David Heinold. That’s my dad, the guy with the bow tie, in the large open­ing page photo. He died […]