Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

This shouldn't take long, I thought.

ALL cats are cool. Just ask one.

BTW, the ICE metaphor didn't fail - it might have been TOO subtly worded, too indirect. In my opinion, it's better to err on the side of understatement than to be too loud and obvious. So don't trash the piece - it's just a matter of fine-tuning the volume. Like I said, just my opinion.....

it rings so true -

holy relics
useless trinkets to some
doors to my past

My ex is battling cancer now, and she keeps a blog of her progress. Many of the entries are dense with medical detail and jargon that frankly goes over my head, which I skim over. Some of her readers have actually accused her of writing about it too much! I've responded at least twice now, emphasizi...

shadows grow long
as does my list
of where to leave my ashes

whoa, don't overestimate Corey's expertise - he's a CHEMIST by training, only an amateur - no more a real historian than I'm a real writer. He's self-taught because he's interested in it & reads a lot, more of it than I do. I trust his conclusions, but take them with a dash of NaCl. (Sorry, he'd wan...

reads like an entry for the old Bulwer-Lytton contest (RIP). I entered several times, but never placed. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing...

thanks all - appreciate it

I meet more or less regularly for lunch with a handful of the scientists & engineers I once worked with - in a city park when it's nice, at a local cafe otherwise. One of us - a bench chemist - is also a history buff, and is totally unflappable about the shitshow that passes for governance today. "A...

snow squall -
the world nods off
and dreams me

thankful indeed! for waking up this morning for water still flowing from the taps for remembering how to follow a recipe even if it does require every bowl & pan I own for every bowl & pan I own for laughter & music for studio 8, its lovely proprietress, its creative space, and its gracious inhabita...

body language!

Love the metaphors, esp. the hawk zeroing in on a woodchuck - so country, so true! And those grocery store encyclopedias.... still have most of a set of classical LPs bought one at a time from the A&P (or was it Grand Union?).... Didn't have an Uncle Crawford - but a local handyman called Junior Sta...

I've seen it called "deprogramming"