Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

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"

To all participants of this thread, esp. Doreen: I assumed (and we all know how to spell that) that Kelly was Trump's press secretary, hired to speak on his behalf. It seems my inattention to details has led me to misspeak. Doreen, that's on me, not you - no need to apologize if I'm the one full of ...

Well, you know, I agree with most everything said in this thread, but I'm also concerned by how many people sat out the '24 election. We all need to make sure to get out and vote against this excrement. Especially women! Where is the collective outrage? The backlash? I mean, Roe was overturned more...

Ms Kelly WAS a talk show host. (Which does not make her a pundit - just a glib pretty face.) What she IS, is the mouthpiece for the President of the United States. She does what she is told, and she says what she's directed to say. She's just another disposable component of the current regime. When ...

Chronic liars have to be good actors in order to be effective. And Trump only hires the best, as he's often assured us. It's probably a prerequisite for working for him. No, I did not actually hear the statement. I'm trying to kick my Outrage Porn habit and prefer not to give that asshole or his syc...

make no bones about it......

I don't think she actually believes that - I think she's just playing the good soldier, following the orders of Der Fuhrer, like the guards at Dachau & Buchenwald. Der Fuhrer says to gas them, we shall gas them. Whatever personal beliefs she may have are secondary to keeping His hands clean. Somehow...