Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

My daughter (Rebecca) decided to go by her middle name (Diane) all throughout 1st grade. It caused some confusion when she decided to switch back, but her teachers felt it was important that she have some say about establishing her own identity. (Rebecca, BTW, came from one of her mother's ancestors...

In that case, thank you! I adored HP Lovecraft as an adolescent, and I wanted to write an homage in his "cosmic horror" vein, but with a more contemporary edge - and with the volume turned way, way down - no squirming tentacles, rotting zombies, or bat-winged demons. For all his originality, HPL was...

Good to see you, too. Been missing your words.

may I take that as a positive?

This is a cleaned up version of something I'd posted at the old AC. It was actually based upon a dream I once had (pretty much the same dream Neil had in the story after his false awakening).

You're not alone, so don't feel bad. I hate my iPhone because I don't understand it, and have never learned how to use it. It was given to me as a gift/payment for fostering my ex's dog last summer, and as a lifeline for all the time I spend alone in the woods. It's useless to me because I don't kno...

ah, you beat me by 2 minutes, Steve!

I suspect this has a lot more to do with oil than with narcotics. Let's face it, Trump is a weak-minded, myopic dunce, hopelessly addicted to money, adulation, and the illusion of power - and so easily manipulated. (Look at that FIFA "peace prize" award... I was laughing & throwing up in my mouth at...

                                                                             Part 1 – Prelude “What do you make of this?” Tom asked, reaching across the table to hand me the figurine. I set my coffee cup down and took the object from him. I turned it over a few times and shrugged. “Not much,” I sai...

ah, got a lot of Coltrane on my car's playlist.... and a phrase from "Syeeda's Song" has been stuck in my head for a day or two....

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!