Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

It's only gotten to within earshot of 30 up here, but even that feels balmy compared to what we've been getting. I went out for a few miles yesterday and actually started overheating - had to remove my hat & open my coat a bit. Even then, it was SO nice just to be outside. How many YT videos about m...

Yes it is. Those whose only joy is money will never truly understand that.

Congrats on the sales! Knowing that somebody else finds value in something you've created is such a counterpunch to those self-doubts.

  sorry, my earworms insist on staying with me and I must say they comfort me, so I'd say my earworms are friendly earworms, nurturing earworms, companions for life   oh yeah, I've got a few of those, too - bits of the incidental music from the "Shaft" & "Bullitt" soundtracks... guitar riff from "S...

"oh I wish I were on Oscar-Meyer wiener...."
(in charming Irish accent) "Manly, yes... but I like it, too"
"better coffee millionaires' money can't buy"
"it's the reeeall thing..."

thanx for reading - just HAD to get out that morning - been housebound by the cold for weeks, & it's been gray & dreary to boot - figured the sun might provide a little warmth. It didn't, but lots of visual interest, near as I could tell without my glasses anyway (easier to wipe away the tears witho...

awright, I'm back. Some songs I could die happy if I never hear again: 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Big Girls Don't Cry How Much Is That Doggie in the Window (esp. the version with the yapping puppy - how precious) The Beverly Hillbillies Theme Blue Danube Waltz anything opera any Christmas jingle...

 
better get your tickets while they last.....
   

sorry, I posted something just after you did - didn't intend to trample on you - this comment should bump you back up to the top. In the meantime, I'll try thinking of some of my own demonic earworms.....

 so cold - lungs recoil, cheeks sting, eyes water fists balled inside my gloves boots squeaking in the snow the camera protests - autofocus dithers, shutter falters - and yet... the storm has passed - a meditative stillness has descended over these woods, leaving space for the panting of my breath, ...

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January 17th, 2026, 11:34 am

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just sayin'
it's important
to acknowledge
the little things
 

I could not agree more

didn't think it could get much worse
Greenland... corporate pedophilia... faux peace awards...
now masked gestapo gunning down civilians
because... just because...

I dearly hope I live long enough to see a thorough reckoning of what MAGA hath wrought - a la Nuremburg

They're absolutely yours - if you design a house that a contractor builds to your spec, you're still the designer of the house. I recently contacted a podcaster about using one of my stories in his show - I've never done this before, and was on uncertain footing about protocol, professional courtesy...

I agree, it certainly has its uses. Sometimes answering the questions it poses during exchanges helps me articulate ill-formed ideas rattling around in my skull, so there's that. It's also pretty effective at finding the kind of typos you tend to miss after you've scanned a piece a dozen times, and ...

Been playing with ChatGPT lately. Any concerns I've had about Artificial Intelligence supplanting the real thing have been somewhat allayed; concerns about misplaced faith in its abilities, not so much. I was introduced to it last year. My ex-wife underwent a medical procedure requiring strict dome...