It would seem, if one uses All­top as a gauge, that most artists and art blog­gers use word­press or type­pad or other free blog host­ing ser­vices. This con­fused me at first. Own­ing a domain name seems so impor­tant, installing Word­Press, refin­ing the blog to fit my taste, and cre­at­ing my own unique web­site –well, isn’t that a no-​brainer? […]

Short fic­tion com­ing soon — I am going to write an assem­blage story… thus cre­at­ing a new fic­tion genre. Col­lage fic­tion? Assem­blage story? Must think of a good name for it. Will post it later today — once the glue dries and the dust settles.

We’re research­ing ser­vice dogs and debat­ing Roxanne’s abil­ity to be trained as one for me. She seems quite apt, very intel­li­gent and able to respond well to com­mands even at age seven months. It’s way to early to begin any for­mal train­ing — let’s get to house train­ing and a few lit­tle com­mands like “come” “sit” “stay” and […]

What trips your trig­ger? For me, it’s aban­doned metal, cracked and chipped paint on an old piece of wood, an old chest of draw­ers with the legs miss­ing… rusted ele­ments of some for­got­ten auto­mo­bile. I re-​purpose dis­cards and turn them into art. I assem­ble items some­one left behind and cre­ate mean­ing­ful (?) dis­so­nance. It’s a col­lage of […]

Easy… it’s hear­ing from Emilio Mer­lina in Italy. Rob and I adore, admire, appre­ci­ate, *let me check the Roget’s for more words to use here* his work. And now it seems that “last news” will be ours. In Costa Rica last sum­mer, we met our friend Gior­gia Vic­ari. The friend­ship turned into a solid one. Rob even built […]

Gram­mat­i­cal quiz o’the day. Is “cri­te­ria” sin­gu­lar or plural? Gotcha! It’s plural.

Micro-​loans for artists? Sounds like a plan.

Praise the fresh home­made with real but­ter maple nut fudge from Bur­gaw. Stand up and say “amen” to all things artery clog­ging. The artis­tic impor­tance of my Bur­gaw lun­cheon visit with J? Another suit­case. This one so very vin­tage, it looks con­trived, the decals and stick­ers appear fake. So real — it’s unreal. Nice! And to add […]

I learned to apply Cesar Milan’s dog reha­bil­i­ta­tion tech­niques to humans. To be calm and assertive… it works out well, most of time. Other lessons I’ve learned this year: Don’t believe a fel­low who tells you not to tell any­body. There is no such thing as an inside tip. If it’s inside, it stays inside; if it’s […]

The Whole Earth Catalog

It’s get­ting close to fin­ish time for the Sis­ters of the Inqui­si­tion. Prob­lem right now is phở­tog­ra­phy since the reg­u­lar phở­tos make the piece look pretty damn shabby. It’s out­sider art. Painted on the back of a chair and on the side of a cuckoo clock, then fused. Think of the chair back as an spread open wide […]

The spirit of the Dead Mule is reborn. Finally get­ting my lit­er­ary jour­nal pub­lish­ing mojo back. On the front page of the Mule? Our new South­ern Legit­i­macy State­ment. Here’s an excerpt: Not one race, not one reli­gion, and cer­tainly not just one cause… the South con­tains all sides of all argu­ments. Help the best of […]