Ahhhh! Rachel Mad­dow becomes a fan of our Mule. I’m so proud, so very proud, that a Rhodes Scholar would find Mules so inter­est­ing. Really, read it for your­self, it’s right here, Mad­dow is a culi­nary mule… so when we use Glen Beckian-​style of log­i­cal lin­ear con­clu­sions, Rachel Mad­dow loves The Dead Mule School of South­ern Lit­er­a­ture! Here’s […]

After recov­er­ing from the astound­ing body blow that sprung from the fist of an Eng­lish teacher who cor­rected my spelling of “ya’ll” into “y’all” — I began to pub­lish more fic­tion and cre­ative non-​fiction for the April issue of the Mule. Over 35 new fic­tion pieces, a half-​dozen essays, and some smash-​grab poetry will be avail­able in the wee […]

Have com­pleted 12 artist’s books. My goal is to keep mak­ing them until I run out of mate­ri­als — in other words — for­ever. The books thus far are cre­ated from: Dante. a Geography/​History text­book 1939. Col­lege trigonom­e­try text­book. Col­lege math­e­mat­ics text­book. 1964 McCall’s mag­a­zine. 1968 1001 Inte­rior Design mag­a­zine. In the early 1970s the artist’s book began to be recognized […]

My goal, 200 artist books, seems almost attain­able. I’m to 60+ books and the end of April (my self-​imposed dead­line) looms far not near. Yesterday’s addi­tions derived from a new source! The Water­gate Tapes… I’m fold­ing the book that inspired my win­ning 3-​D piece — “Fish­ing for Nixon”. Aged paper­backs fold nicely, thank you very much. The gallery phởtos […]

If every­thing old is new again, then my cre­at­ing artist’s books from dis­carded text­books is Vin­tage NuvoFluxus in its essence. The artist for­merly known as me com­pleted 15 Artist Books last week, com­plete with a sok for each and a cotton-​string tag explain­ing the idea behind the book. Por­trait of same to be included in Sok Gallery […]

I’m to the “Frame-​in-​progress” stage for this 3D piece. That means it will need a hang­ing place soon and this is where I usu­ally stall. The photo has been scanned and used many times and the orig­i­nal deserves to be included in a place of honor. The woman is sub­lime, the every-​woman of south­ern roots. I buy phở­tos, black […]

Sent my two 4“x6” Book About Death objects/​pieces to Wales today. Welsh addresses con­fuse me and I hope my enve­lope is cor­rectly done. Y Sti­w­dio. Tynllan.Llanelltyd .Dolgellau.Gwynedd LL40 2SU . Wales UK That’s what I know to write on the enve­lope. The post­cards would go via the vir­gin naked look but Wales is so very far away, Momma, my […]

Some of the odd­est items in my col­lec­tion would have to be my boy-​hero nov­els from the early 190s to the 1930’s. No decent segue here — bear with me.… I grew up in the days of long car trips spent play­ing either car tag bingo or lis­ten­ing to my par­ents talk about the past. Oh, and say­ing, “Mom, […]

Using a fold­ing tech­nique I picked up online (like a tramp dur­ing fleet week, the tem­plate screamed at me from across the dock), new books spring forth (not fall back) from the stu­dio. Acquired a 1938 sixth grade geog­ra­phy book “The New World Past and Present” and after read­ing all about the South after the Civil War which wasn’t […]

I stum­bled into an amaz­ing cacaphony of match­books about three years ago. Michael Cable’s Wood­side Antiques, an auc­tion house in Far­mville North Car­olina, offered box loads of stuff at the end of a large estate sale. Cable is a mar­velous auc­tion­eer who inserts bits of trivia with every round of bid­ding. I hes­i­tate to admit how much of […]

I got all happy-​grab and com­mit­ted to five (5) can­vases for the Beau­fort County Art Show fundraiser. See here for details. Joey Toler, neigh­bor and head o’the arts coun­cil, was inspired by sim­i­lar fundrais­ers held by sim­i­lar arts coun­cils, knew he had a great con­fla­gra­tion of artis­ti­cal peo­ple within hol­ler­ing dis­tance of down­town. When I deliv­ered my […]

Welsh artist Sonja Ben­skin Mesher is cre­at­ing an install­ment of the inter­na­tional “A Book About Death” series. The link is for the Call for Sub­mis­sions page. Dead­line is March 16, 2010 for .jpgs of artist’s sub­mis­sions for this seg­ment of the Inter­na­tional Exhi­bi­tion. Obvi­ously this is an abbre­vi­ated post — much more shall be said regarded this […]

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I am rein­stat­ing my Soci­ety for the Preser­va­tion of South­ern Ver­nac­u­lar. [that’s not a link, okay, so don’t mouse over it hop­ing for a sur­prise or for clar­i­fi­ca­tion of any sort] It’s time to pre­serve… and reflect. The Kin­dle con­tri­bu­tion to my inter­nal knowl­edge base included last Sunday’s (02÷28÷10) arti­cle on Race in the South. Nat­u­rally, I thought the […]