Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

demotion for some
exaltation for me

(wishing the latter for you)

I am a relic - an anachronism, faded, a thing of little value -
I still write checks, drive a stick, and code command-line scripts

[PEDANTRY ALERT] Actually, according Special Relativity, the answer is Yes, they would - at least in your frame of reference. Don't ask me what bystanders would see, 'cause I never quite wrapped my mind around that stuff. I was a Newtonian physics guy... /PEDANTRY ALERT] Great joke, though - love St...

Note Worthy Listening to some Elliott Carter at the moment. I've had a pair of his string quartets in my LP collection for quite a while (hail Nonesuch Records!), and have enjoyed them on those occasions I've been in the mood for a quiet boat ride through dark, alien landscapes. At some point YouTu...

darkness
both without
and within

kindness
her hand always extended -
palm down

my parents brought us kids to Plymouth Rock once... a middling-sized boulder on the beach, surrounded by a fence... and tourists with brochures... history/legend reduced to a revenue stream...


sorry you had to experience that... profit engines rarely treat all parties the same

Thanks, all - it's as close to prayer as I come. Not exactly what I was taught in Catechism, but a whole lot more fulfilling.

a sound wind soft, whispering the trees sun warm & bright then dim - cool clouds nearby, fluttering a chickadee lands for a closer look eye to eye a holy moment pond alive with noise buzzing, trilling dragonflies red-wing blackbird peepers i am unnoticed a holy moment motion milk snake emerges, vani...

never underestimate the value of small victories!

So did my parents. I became an audio tinkerer while in high school, & and wired the tv in the den so I could monitor the sound from my room upstairs - which of course meant I could broadcast from up there as well. To the day she died, my mom swore she heard Lawrence Welk belch in the middle of a show.

And in the meantime, you're supposed to sit quietly and wait until your name is called. Sorry this is happening - as if getting older weren't challenging enough already. Sucks when bureaucracy that's supposed to deal with situations like this makes things worse rather than better. It punishes everyo...

Myron Floren's version of "White Rabbit" is vastly underrated, IMO...

  Eyes Right 5/6/2026 - Had my follow-up Ophthalmology visit with Jaeger today, the one I canceled last month because of the surprise snowstorm that left the roads slicker than I was comfortable with. This was to assess how effectively the 2nd laser surgery on my right eye was keeping the glaucoma t...

and drop your ballot into the paper shredder by the door