Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

a small man with a huge grudge a six-year old with a loaded revolver a semi-literate thug with an ill-gotten bank account a vile creature without a shred of decency or ethics or generosity or morality or allegiance to anyone but himself - yet has inexplicably hypnotized millions into happily marchin...

rain dances on the skylight filling the house with polyrhythms and the woods with mist - softening the edges, muting the contrast, rendering its blacks and whites in diffuse grays - a misty fantasy by Ravel... on days such as this I should catch up on my reading I should write and test the code I've...

  Dec 26, 2025 - Conversation at the checkout counter The register is tended by a young girl, maybe 17 or 18 - slightly built, dark hair in a pony tail - neither especially pretty nor homely. A dark-haired lad about her age waits at the far end of the counter, ready to bag the goods as they arrive. ...

stunning. She writes like I want to.

captivating piece roy....the rising sun, Debussy , a determined hike, the plans to socialize.....I too have curbed the alcohol, mostly because I felt I didn't want to take a chance that booze might water down the effects of chemo.....I haven't missed it....and as you say I indulge a bit of moderati...

This.Is.Gold

needs to be read aloud!

Zuihitsu - Sunrise 7:30 a.m. The sun has just erupted from the hills to the south, into a sky it's already painted coral while still in the wings - like the headliner finally walking onstage after the sidemen have all taken their places. The icicles hanging from the eaves gleam in the sudden burst ...

  Speaking as the perennial outsider, I feel that if your goal here was to build a community, then you were more successful than you give yourself credit for. But I, too, can see its end coming, just like I can see my own. Evolution is relentless - Facebook, Instagram, X, they're all just names to m...

  for me it was important not to try writing like I used to but to let myself write like I do now it didn't come easy - I thought I had to finish those stalled projects - the sci-fi epic, the supernatural thrillers unfinished dead ends... what got written was good but it went nowhere just... tapered...

I think that was about the time Rush Limbaugh started belching out air pollution, and house speaker Newt Gingrich introduced his "Contract for America".... though even then I thought he'd meant "on".... the birth of the Tea Party... but I never imagined how acceptable & institutionalized naked bigot...

when white people started thinking maybe they weren't automatically at the top of the food chain when men weren't always men and women weren't always women, and those who were neither refused to stay out of sight in the closet when money couldn't buy you whatever you wanted when "NO" didn't mean shi...

a small totem of my spirit animal hangs from a peg in my fireplace mantle as does another from my bedroom wall gifts from her my own Lady K met her in Ann Arbor those eyes, those eyes she bewitched me pretended for a year we could make it work but we couldn't too many miles geographical and otherwis...

"The Lark Ascending" has a different vibe - aspirational, maybe? It flirts with prettiness, but stops short of becoming precious - in the opinion of this musical philistine, anyway... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdVtLPGBqVI

"Dark Pastorale" might not be a bad place to start - it isn't dark as much as elegiac, and quite cinematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5tquD727ik

Been listening to a lot of Vaughan Williams lately - I've heard him in on NPR for many years, but always unobtrusively in the background - always eliciting a "gee, I rather like that", but never "wow, I like that!"... Pleasant orchestral music in a classical vein, but not archaic & academic, nor ove...