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Word + Sound at Brandt Gallery

Saturday, January 16, 2010
8:00pm – 11:00pm
1028 Kenilworth Ave, Tremont
Cleveland, OH
Michael Basinski, L.A. Howe and William R. Howe
with special guests Fluxmonkey and Frass Accolades
8PM SHARP || $5 DONATIONS

MICHAEL BASINSKI is the Curator of the Poetry Collection of the University at Buffalo. He has published a batch of books of poetry including All My Eggs are Broken (BlazeVox 2007), Of Venus 93 (Little Scratch Pad 2007) and Welcome to the Alphabet (Red Fox2007). His poems, visual poems, sound works, essays, reviews and such have appeared in magazines from Poetry and the Village Voice to fhole and the Wormwood Review. He regularly performs with his ensemble, BuffFluxus, wherever art administrators will allow. Don’t miss him, he’s 59, and his bags are packed.

L.A. HOWE is a writer, artist, and editor who lives and works in Cincinnati. She is the author of the chapbook, Entropic Easter (Little Scratchpad Books), which is now out of print. She is a co-founder of Slack Buddha Press, co-editing Slack Buddha’s La Perruque series of chapbooks, which publishes the work of contemporary practitioners from the U.S. and the U.K., including poetry, prose, performance texts, and verbo-visual works. Also a bookbinder, Howe crafts artist’s and writer’s journals to sell at bookfairs and online.

WILLIAM R. HOWE is a poet, book artist, publisher, editor, performance artist, and visual artist. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami University of Ohio. His work has appeared in Plantarchy, Mirage #4/Period(ical), FerrumWheel, The Gig, and others. His most recent book is translanations one (BlazeVox 2009). He runs the Putitupor Broadside series, and he and his wife, L.A. Howe, edit Slack Buddha Press. His second full-length collection Kid Stippler & the Sty-elf is forthcoming in Spring/Winter 2010 from Slack Buddha. His third collection Sixes & Eights will appear with white print inc in 2010.n239763678025_3952n239763678025_3952

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I had a disk of pictures that I took in 2009 that sort of went undiscovered for a while.  I figured I should post these few shots of my buddy Josef Makkos in this radiation suit or whatever it is while frolicking in Tremont.  I may post some more displaced ‘09 pictures of other subject matter soon.  Enjoy these for now…

Run!...is going on?!?!?

Dana L. Depew of the Tremont Asterisk Gallery created a triptych based on three different drawings by serial killers John Wayne Gacy and Richard Ramirez. The drawings include:
“Red Skull” (2000) by R. Ramirez, “Jackie” (1994) and “Mona Lisa” (1993) by J. W. Gacy.
Depew’s work, “Chain Gang (Rubberneck Composition)” (2009) is a mixed media monster!
Depew’s realization of this triptych is an elegant treatment/commentary or collective response to these drawings of murky origin.






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The Drawn and Quartered Draw Off took place this past Saturday, June 6, 2009 at the Asterisk Gallery in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland. Participants were given various models and time constraints, in which to capture and represent! Artist groups present included: Tim Herron and the Tremont Pretentious Artists (who usually dwell at the Literary Cafe every Friday Night), The Murray Hill Group, N.O.I.S. (The Northern Ohio Illustrators Society) and Dr Sketchy.

It was a treat to witness all of these talented groups come together and have a great time.
The Asterisk Gallery can be found at
2393 Professor Street, Tremont Cleveland and is a regular attraction of the Tremont ART WALK.

Yikes! Here is some so-so cell phone footage of a truck fire in front of the Merrick House at the corner of West 11th and Starkweather Ave. The truck parked in front of this community center caught fire in the engine and after a few moment there was a loud explosion from within. I only caught this scene after the fire dept showed up. Scary stuff!

Per my previous post, I now have a new phone and I’m taking calls. (how exciting) I was able to retain the contacts stored in the broken phone’s memory. (also exciting)
I have corrected the settings for comments here on my blog, so please comment away. They do have to be approved though, but I’m not too fussy. (more excitement)

Catholic churches are consolidating and closing in the Greater Cleveland/Akron area. The list was released over the weekend! One of them (Our Lady of Mercy) a once primarily Slovak parish nestled in the heart of Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, is about four doors down from where I reside. In between which is another condemned house. We’ll see what happens.
I gotta go for now, however this stuff really needs further examination. Holy freaking yikes!!!

I will have more photos and other jive for you soon as well!
Crazy!