if you are in a big hurry. Pittsburgh’s UPS decided to CLOSE yes­ter­day, Dec. 30^th, around 8 or 9 a.m. and will not deliver pack­ages. Yes. It’s true.The UPS rep told Ama­zon the same thing I heard, “we’re closed until Mon­day”. Wow. I want my Kindle.

To: The Greek Min­istry of Cul­ture and the Munic­i­pal­ity of Thes­sa­loniki Recently the roof of the build­ing of the Visual Artists Asso­ci­a­tion of North­ern Greece (SKETBE ) was burned away. The offices which housed the Asso­ci­a­tion on Gor­gon Street in the Upper Old Town in Thes­sa­loniki no longer exist (the site was granted by the […]

None of us will really go grace­fully into that dark night. You should know we will kick and scream and try to stop death. You should know it’s not always vis­i­ble — the strug­gle and yearn­ing to stay right here in this very moment. It’s hid­den some­times, just behind the eyes, the fight to remain in this […]

As part of the Col­bert Nation, I’m obvi­ously a speed skat­ing fan. But a new nation is begin­ning to form, an anony­mous nation filled with ephemera and ink — the Richard Canard Nation. It’s no Illu­sion. Canard is spread­ing his invi­ta­tions to cit­i­zen­ship through­out the world-​wide real, not the world wide web. IUOMA cit­i­zens rejoice. Mr. Canard accepts all nationalities […]

While research­ing and read­ing Levi Strauss, hav­ing a lit­tle of The Sav­age Mind here and there in my evening dia­log with self, I came to real­ize the term “brico­lage” should be applied to much of my work. Rather than my main con­cept of assem­blage, where per­haps dis­parate objects exist adja­cent to or upon each other, mod­i­fied and […]

How can I make my fin­gers yell at you? Why won’t you lis­ten to my hands? The key­board taps and raps… lit­tle back­ground tippy tippy, not even musi­cal like the type­writer used to be. WRITING IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS IS RUDE. But if that’s true… then how do you scream at strangers? Here, anony­mously… through the Power of […]