I’ve been con­tacted my Meta of SC. She is in dire need of an apparel make-​over redun­dancy. She tells me, yet I am skep­ti­cal, of Lus­cious the Dammit Goat’s appar­ent fab­ric destruc­tion. The Dammit Goat has been with us for over ten years and while we adore her, the wave of wan­ton destruc­tion must cease. Mama Lard […]

It is time. The Flux Mon­i­tor reveals all. Yes, patrons of the assem­blage rag, the most recent of days con­tains many puz­zling conun­drums. Can a conun­drum not puz­zle? Let me redact. I have assem­bled all the nec­es­sary pro­po­nents for my Cor­re­la­tion Phono­graph­i­cal Time Trav­eler. At the present moment, only the small­est of object can trans­port — specif­i­cally cater­pil­lars of only […]

Today is punc­tu­ated by thun­der­ous excla­ma­tion points and storm-​scared dogs. Linus shiv­ers, quakes with pain caused by baro­met­ric pres­sure responses of genetic value. DNA. Dogs who fear storms and loud noises come by this trait genet­i­cally. Per­haps it’s like the cir­cling before lay­ing down. That pri­mal urge to flat­ten the grass is built in and […]

Fordyce, Arkansas, USA Dal­las County We ran the jail in 1976 – 1977. Sher­iff Joe Pen­ning­ton, a dis­tant cousin, gave us the gig. The jail was demol­ished a few years later but while it existed, it was intrigu­ing and a once in a life­time oppor­tu­nity. Not for the pris­on­ers, no no no, but for us, it was rather inter­est­ing. I have many […]

My father Bob Heinold had some truly fan­tas­tic say­ings to insert at the proper moment. This morn­ing I remem­ber a sly, side­ways smile as he told me, “Some are born to lead,” in response to my win­ning an hon­or­able men­tion for a sci­ence fair project in the 7^th grade. 1967 or there­abouts. Mom used to say things like […]

I am now offi­cially a source of all things known and unknown. At least that’s how spe­cial I am to me. After an inten­sive Googling of myself for my auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal entry in a soon-​to-​be-​named pub­li­ca­tion, some­thing inter­est­ing and unex­pected came up — a book by Mark I. West titled “The Japan­i­fi­ca­tion of Children’s Cul­ture”– and it quotes a review of The Animé […]

Those avid read­ers of Men­tal Kudzu can­not help but recall with vivid clar­ity the pre­vi­ous incar­na­tion of Spencer Mont­gomery and his lovely wifel­ing, Miss Mar­garet and yes we do, miss Mar­garet, I mean. It seems Flan­na­gan Wilder has moved back into the trilin­gual area and func­tions in his post as cura­tor once again for the Spatulate […]

Yes, chil­dren, gather ’round as the truth is related unto you. The Flux­Mu­seum takes time and patience to inhabit. Becom­ing recently acquainted in the spir­i­tual sense, lo’ I say, not yet in the phys­i­cal or astro­phys­i­cal, with Cecil Tou­chon — the amaz­ing and lit­eral exis­tence of life and lies. Flux. It is. I am. “I don’t know where he’s going, […]

I want to take the clay­ma­tion film class at Emerge Gallery in Greenville — one of these “I have $150 extra this month” times… mean­while, Rob wants to buy some stop motion soft­ware for me, and I ain’t say­ing no to the offer. Stop Motion films are like mov­ing ephemera, assem­blage pho­to­graph. Can’t wait to try it. Especially […]

East Car­olina University’s Sixth East­ern North Car­olina Lit­er­ary Home­com­ing, in part­ner­ship with Bertie County Arts Coun­cil, proudly announces the open­ing recep­tion for “Niobe’s Chil­dren: A Visual Poetry Series” by Gabrielle Free­man. Sun­day, August 2, 2009 3:00 – 5:00pm Bertie County Arts Coun­cil, 124 South King Street, Wind­sor, NC This event is free and open to the pub­lic The […]

This just in from Jeff York: The City of Nor­folk, Vir­ginia is excited to announce a Call for Artists to cre­ate art­work for the Lambert’s Point Com­mu­nity Cen­ter Nor­folk, Vir­ginia — The Nor­folk Pub­lic Art Com­mis­sion and the Lambert’s Point Com­mu­nity Cen­ter Plan­ning Com­mit­tee seek to com­mis­sion an artist to cre­ate lively, light-​hearted and thought-​provoking art­work for the exterior […]

Began work­ing on a series of ACEOs today. I’m using ephemera for the design, par­tic­u­larly a Sep­tem­ber 1954 issue of Woman’s Day mag­a­zine. At the time, a copy of the mag­a­zine sold for 7 CENTS and it was labeled “An A&P Pub­li­ca­tion”. I’m think­ing that’s A&P gro­cery store but now my curi­ousity is in third gear, round­ing the hair […]

Received my fresh off the press copy of Van­ished, Joe’s lat­est novel, on Sat­ur­day. I’ve put aside Tues­day after­noon as my offi­cial read­ing time. Today is punc­tu­ated by Roxanne’s sched­uled les­son at Top Dog Acad­emy. Most of the day’s periph­ery revolves around pur­chas­ing a 6′ leash/​lead and other dog-​related activ­i­ties, includ­ing clean­ing out her swim­ming pool […]

Art House Gallery posted a nice lit­tle link to their CNN expo­sure. I do so enjoy Art House projects, as one can eas­ily fig­ure out from my pre­vi­ous posts. Embed­ded video from CNN Video

First, let me make a Michael Arring­ton com­ment, a TechCrunch bitch­slap. I occa­sion­ally read Arrington’s scrib­bles and this time, he is just wrong. Pub­lish­ing hacked mate­r­ial is uneth­i­cal and could be ille­gal. But it’s also a bla­tant grasp for #s. It’s cheesy. This Twit­ter inci­dent con­firms my jour­nal­ist bias. We need real, trained jour­nal­ists, the kind who work for […]

Just when you think you’ve done it all — you get notice of a true oppor­tu­nity like this one: Samp­son County Arts Coun­cil The theme of the Anniver­sary Artists’ Show is “Show Your Swine,” sched­uled August 25 – Octo­ber 2 at the Vic­tor R. Small House in Clin­ton. Adult res­i­dents of N.C. are eli­gi­ble to sub­mit two orig­i­nal 2D works exe­cuted within […]

What con­sti­tutes a for­tu­nate son? For my brother John, it was a judge and a pedi­a­tri­cian in Rock­ford, Illi­nois in 1953. The two men knew and admired my par­ents. The story of John the infant and the parental abuse is not to be told here, it’s a bit per­sonal, but the rest of his life came with love and […]

Damn, it’s really hard to write a blog post when Eagle Eye is on in the room. I thought one could rise above the noise and anx­i­ety but hell, any threat to our national good­ness with Shia Labeef and that Arkansas guy, Billy Bob, will col­lect all my atten­tion and just lift it up. Is it any […]

As many of you, I enjoy read­ing the Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor. When Mom was still lucid, we sub­scribed to the news­pa­per. She would devour it and we spent many hours at the kitchen table drink­ing cof­fee and dis­cussing the arti­cles. Mom “got” the inter­net, she tried to blog with me, answered a few emails, learned to google — when […]

I recently came across an old post of Rob’s on mace​wan​.org. I’d for­got­ten about try­ing to iron plas­tic bags together, try­ing to make fab­ric — be all envi­ron­men­tally cor­rect and won­der­ful. It came to naught. It was quite funny. To read the arti­cle, click here for mace​wan​.org’s post.

Ald­wyth on dis­play in Chapel Hill at the Ack­land Art Museum. She does some fas­ci­nat­ing col­lages and assem­blages. Her brain seems to go to places sim­i­lar to mine as she recre­ates worlds and illus­trates ideas with bits of deitri­tus and left-​over fluh. It’s def­i­nitely not for every­one. Some peo­ple pre­fer acrylic paint­ings of land­scapes — seashores, mountain […]

When­ever any­one asks Oliver and Emmett what hap­pens at Nana’s house, they say, “We have art projects.” Oliver sort of snorts when he says it, as if to say, “Stu­pid, what do you think we do — dig holes?” Today we all went down to the Arts Coun­cil to retrieve the Ann Head from the dis­play cabinet. […]

The Dead Mule School of South­ern Lit­er­a­ture has a Face­book page. It’s always a plus to belong to a group of lit­er­ary drag­ons, so join today. Mean­while, back at the ranch, three dogs and one cat later, it’s time for din­ner. No one seems to notice we’re hav­ing Pop­si­cles and plain baked potatoes.

Ollie used a black per­ma­nent marker on one of my large dry erase boards. I have five of these so it wasn’t a big deal. This is how you erase per­ma­nent marker from dry erase boards. Get it here from Life­Hacker. 1. Get the board you want the stuff off. 2. Get a dry erase marker (yes, we will […]