The Future of The Asylum

Notes on the future of The Asylum and information about our home-based business: ARTK12: Homeschool Curriculum Disguised as Fun.

Hello Everyone,

As I’ve written elsewhere, I started The Asylum in late 2021 first as a website and six months later added this Substack. At the time I felt an incredible urgency to be as involved as possible in our fight against Globalism and the Biden regime. I have a son and was worried the last four years about the future he was looking at (I’m 67 he’s 27).

I will continue The Asylum, just not at the pace I have up until now for several reasons: there are some life issues I need to deal with, I do need a break from all this, I need to focus on our business (more on that below) and I do feel a sense of relief seeing what has been happening the last 4 weeks. I’ll still be posting periodically including not only new things, but some of my fiction and essays that never had an audience back in the day.

And obviously, I hope it is anyway, it is so important to continue fighting for the freedoms that we came so close to losing. Unlike my pre-pandemic self I still plan to be involved to help press the advantage that we now have.

Thanks to all of you who read The Asylum. I have a small following, but more than I thought I’d ever have: over 400 subscribers and over 800 followers. Thank you!

ARTK12: Our Business for Homeschoolers

This is a bit of an advertisement…so if you’re not interested go read some el gato malo.

My wife and I run a home-based business. We sell homeschool curriculum: ARTK12: Homeschool Curriculum Disguised as Fun. We have over 60 titles that do not just pertain to art: geography, literature, anatomy, American art history, World War I, general art history, the Bible and children’s books. I’ve listed all our titles at the end of this post.

My wife’s geography series has sold over 130,000 books and has a good reputation in the homeschooling community.

We write and self-publish all the curriculum ourselves. With the literature books I’ve used public domain text and surrounded it with memes and other information.

I just started the ARTK12 Substack and I’d like to ask you to either subscribe or share it (artk12.substack.com) with any homeschooling families you may know. No obligation, just if you like what we’re doing and think it might be useful for families in your orbit.

We sell books on our website (artk12.com), but the Substack will focus on homeschooling, education (book reviews, essays and quotes), some online activities for students and we’ll also share some information from our books with links. There will be some book reviews and essays that will appear both on The Asylum and ARTK12. Our books are also sold on Amazon.com and Rainbow Resource Center.

I have a strong belief that parents need to pull their children out of state run schools. It’s no longer a good option to leave them in and hope for change (it never really was). EKO’s excellent piece today (Breaking School) is truly a must read for anyone who has children in public education or who is thinking of homeschooling.

We’re trying to get our business back to where it was pre-pandemic, so we’re looking for people who may have never heard of ARTK12 or the books we sell.

If you are interested in purchasing books for yourself, children or grandchildren or you know someone who might be interested, here’s a 15% off coupon for you or anyone you know good until May 31, 2025:

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Thanks so much.

But People Will See Your Name!

Yes, you’ll see my real name (Glen Draeger). The Inmate was never about trying to hide my identity. I’m a nobody so it never mattered anyway, but I like both the nostalgia of The Inmate (I published an underground paper back in the 80s where I worked which I called The Inmate) and I like the symbolism of being an inmate in an Asylum.

The Asylum has that nice double meaning: it can be a sanctuary / shelter or it can be an institution for the mentally ill. I’ll let you choose.

Here’s a list of all our books with links:

Geography Books

• Draw the USA

• Draw Europe

• Draw Africa

• Draw Canada and Greenland

• Draw Asia: Volume I

• Draw Asia: Volume II

• Draw Mexico, Central & South America

• Draw Oceania

• Draw the World

• Draw the Natural Wonders of the USA

• Draw the Natural Wonders of Europe

• Draw the Natural Wonders of Africa

• Draw the Natural Wonders of Canada & Greenland

• USA Bingo

• USA Extra Bingo Cards

• Africa Bingo

• Africa Extra Bingo Cards

Biology Disguised as Fun

• Draw the Human Body: Organs (includes reproductive organs)

• Draw the Human Body: Organs (includes reproductive organs) (Hardback)

• Draw the Human Body: Organs (no reproductive organs)

• Draw the Human Body: Organs (no reproductive organs) (Hardback)

• Find the Organs (children’s book)

American Art History

• American Art History: Volume I

• Drawing American Art: Volume I

• American Art Bingo: Volume I

• American Art History: Volume II

• Drawing American Art: Volume II

• American Art Bingo: Volume II

• American Art Extra Bingo Cards: Volume I

• American Art Extra Bingo Cards: Volume II

Renaissance

• Draw Renaissance Art

• Renaissance Forgeries

• Mona Lisa

Impressionism

• Impressionist Forgeries

Literature Disguised as Fun

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll – Family Reading Edition / Library Edition

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – Family Reading Edition / Library Edition

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

• A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

• Adventurous Author Biographies: Volume I

• Adventurous Author Biographies: Volume II

• Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville

• Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

• Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (Hardback)

• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

• Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

• Selected Poems of William Wordsworth

• Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The Bet by Anton Chekhov

• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

• Walking by Henry David Thoreau

• Jack and the Beanstalk

• Six Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

• Six Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (Hardback)

Children's Books

• Creation of the World

• Ancient Greek Pottery Disguised as Fun

• Mission Architecture Disguised as Fun

• Mona Lisa Smiles

The Bible

• Create Bible Verse Cards: Volume I

World War One

• The Worse for It - This book is about my grandfather who fought in The Great War. My mother had many of his letters written during that time and I have published them in this book along with photos, documents and more.

• The Worse for It (Hardback)

Homeschooling

• Serious Fun: Homeschooling with Real Books: 2nd Edition