Tuesday, January 18 (cont'd)

Q: Are you the political columnist for The Daily Bulletin?

A: No, I am the Schwitters columnist.

Kurt Schwitters built a statue in his flat in Hanover he called his Schwitters-column.

He also called it his merzbau, or, The Cathedral of Erotic Misery.

It is called Cathedral of Erotic Misery [Kathedrale des erotischen Elends], or KdeE for short, this is an age of abbreviations.

It was destroyed by Allied bombing in World War II.

Schwitters fled to Norway, then to England, where he painted a mural on the side of a barn he called his merzbarn.

My Schwitters-column is merz-based.

Like another writer's blog might be reality-based.

When reality is surreal, surrealism is realism. Dada is reality.

Everything I add to my column changes the relation of existing parts to each other, and the whole, and I add to it every day.
So it's in flux. Dymanic. Defining itself, as it proceeds.

A column in the process of defining itself.

Q: Have you always reported on the worldwide web?

A: No, the first 30 years were in print. I anticipated the worldwide web.

I report on the web now.

My reporting has always been merz-based, though.

"The artist must be allowed to mold a picture out of sticking-plaster," Kurt Schwitters said. "Provided he is capable of molding a picture."

Q: What do you report?

A: What have you got?

Report on the Suppression of Art Brew's Work by Unknown Forces.