The Assemblagist

It seems to me, just a little ol' assemblagist, that Dorothy and Ruth may have received some instruction from the Irishman who, in 1954, set a nonstop speaking record. When interviewed about Mr. Sheehan's feat, Dorothy replied, "It's all in the ability to change subjects without thinking about the subjects and one just keeps on blathering until the pattering and nattering begins to cause cerebral explosions and corpuscle cringes in the listening and attentively persuant audience which sits at my right hand almighty until I leave my RV for the outside yard and come back again to the kitchen window." To which Ruth nodded, and said, "Yes." ... read more

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British colonel outwaits dead wife's dying pets ... read more

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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. ... read more

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This just in from Jeff York: ... read more

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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 in her late 80s - but CSM online or the NYTimes online never truly tripped her trigger. I confess, it took me some time to get used to holding the MacAir instead of folded huge sheets of newsprint. Newspapers can never be replaced. What journalists don't seem to understand is that we need them. We must have true, trained professionals dispensing information. Much as we need AP photographers and not just you and me and YouTube. (If you don't agree, take a few minutes to check the Boston Globe's retrospective of Obama's 167 days. Those kind of photos don't come from a Sony Cybershot, ya'll) ... read more

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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. ... read more

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Born April 13, 1917
Died April 30, 2009 ... read more

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