The Repub­li­can National Con­ven­tion, Miami, FL, 1972

Part 1 of a Series

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My political past surprises most people. I believe it is the extent of activity pre-1974 that contains the cultural hiccup in most minds. ... read more

Dog Day After­noon this Friday

Okay then my dear ones, this Friday, June 25th, is Take Your Dog to Work Day. The event, sponsored by Pet Sitters International, promises to be quite the entertaining. If you go to the website, you can register your dog, your place of work, and post photos of That Special Day. ... read more

Artists Books Made From Real Books

Cur­rently speak­ing, the obses­sion of this Assem­blag­ist is to fold books. Paper­backs, 1950s Reader’s Digests, NC geog­ra­phy text­books from 1930s but of course you already know that if you read my blog. The dif­fi­cult part of the process lies in con­struct­ing the cov­ers for the books. I make the cov­ers from all man­ner of items. The Cen­ter for Book Arts is a good open­ing move for you if you want to see how books are made.

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fluxus artist’s books — a folded ret­ro­spec­tive shake­speare to salinger

Over 200 books folded and fab­u­lous. Found a copy of Joe McGin­niss “The Sell­ing of the Pres­i­dent” in paper­back — on my shelf from a U of A class in 1973, required read­ing and it MUST BE USED, will begin flux­ing the book today. *This post writ­ten just after Sarah Palin went apeshit over McGin­niss liv­ing next door to her Mozilla Home. The post here talks about fold­ing books also. Con­tinue read­ing