Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

I must say you've taken puncil in hand demonstrated a punchant for punnmanship - at the risk of punderous puntification, I'd venture this to be the punnacle of the form,,, (Damn you Autocorrect, get out of the way!)

Same - I've noticed the stylistic shift - longer lines, more conversational. I've just unearthed a primal scream from my own archive that I'm debating whether to clean up or just re-inter it...

dreams
life's memories
replayed on shuffle

Oh yeah... I've got a clear memory of driving along a stretch of discontinued road atop a steep-sided knife-edge ridge, now overgrown; but when I walk it today, there's no sign of a dropoff on either side. False memory? Real memory, wrong place? A dream? Who knows...

Ain't that the truth. Fake News! Climate Change is a Hoax! Science Sez That Bumblebees Can't Fly! Horse Tranquilizers Will Cure Covid! ... Drill, Baby, Drill...

Sagan had that rare balance of intellectual rigor and spirituality...

You're right, of course - except maybe for one word: that they're weaponizing "THEIR" science. Those powers that be aren't doing the work - they're cherrypicking, (mis)quoting what they've (mis)read in the popular press's (mis)interpretation of peer-reviewed journals, for their own political or fina...

science isn't a corpus of knowledge - it's a process it's a way to amass that corpus not necessarily THE way - ANOTHER way more efficient than some - a way to systematize trial & error... and we who've adopted it are guilty of failing to discard the raiments of Truth that pop culture has naively dra...

Drill, baby, drill...

I think we who regard woodland tramping as prayer have that sense that, to the Earth, we are no larger than those ants and bugs are to us - and we can barely carry our own weight, much less 30x . We live here at her pleasure and would do well to show her a little more respect than our species has be...

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