Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Try this explanation of ED's slant rhyme, of half-rhyme. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_rhyme ED was pretty inventive and is in no way enslaved to perfect rhyme-- or meter. This Google Books page might have to be scrolled a bit to find the discussion of Dickinson's use of rhyme and meter: http://...

ST-- the "hmmmm" is not against Barack Obama. I am still vexed we think that by controlling the internal affairs of other countries we can stop terrorism. Ahmed Rashid has many cogent things to say about Pakistan, whose border and mountainous areas probably conceal the most potent and determined ter...

Let us burn the Wicker Man . . .

I've got two stones to beat together . . .

( Nods . . .)


--UU

Ending wars? Cutting back?


Hmmmmm . . .

( read here)


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7793772.stm



UU

On the subject of Obama's team, this is an interesting snippet: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/109160/right-wingers_and_neocons_love_obama%27s_cabinet_appointments/ As is this choice: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/113720/obama_taps_science-hating_homophobe_rick_warren_to_deliver_inaugural_i...

. . . and the audacity of co-operation with the "Corporate Powers That Be" . . .


I'm on his side until he starts to resemble BUSHKO . . .

( which I hope won't/ don't think will happen . . .)


UU

Bush is a dodger, it seems:


http://news.antiwar.com/2008/12/15/one- ... e-for-man/



--UU

Donner Pass could be a bastard in the winter, JT. I lived in Reno for a year and drove back and forth on 80 ( when I had a car-- otherwise, the Greyhound) to San Francisco. Ten-foot snowdrifts in some months. And, of course, there was also the horror of the University of Nevada for me-- where I taug...

Some of you who have been on Studio8 for a while might remember that in THE ADVENTURES OF HERMAN UTIX, ( appearing in these pages two years ago) I based my story somewhat on one of my favorite movies, Robert Wise's 1951 sci-fi classic, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, which remains one of the best sf ...

I saw the Bettie Page film-- it could have been worse. The actress was skilled at catching the weird whiff of pin-up sex mixed with born-again Christianity. Also the portrayal of BP's chief promotor, a sweating, somewhat uncomfortable man and his female accomplice, was well-acted and directed. The b...

I think I have to agree with TV actor Richard Boone ( "Have Gun, Will Travel"):

"I'm not a marijuana user because I already have too much dangerous shit flying around in my head . . ."

It's gotten so that, at my advanced age, I can't even drink beer any more without getting sick . . .



--UU

Sculptors and poets are the most chronically unemployed citizens . . .


--UU

I was probably a little unclear, Truck-- I meant the "alleged electorate" was likely to believe Africa was a country, not Palin necessarily, though I wouldn't put it past her . . . In speculation about why Orwell is the darling of someone on the right: Everyone likes to claim a dystopia ( or the lit...

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not . . . ( you can fill in the rest) . . . It's the alleged "electorate", the fans of Sarah Palin, Africa as a country, the lies in my other post in Bush's "assessment" of his performance ( which will be swallowed, if anything factual is ever swallowed-- as "fact") that...

Lr:

This is my Flickr site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7511675@N06/


It has over one thousand images. You, as a visitor, may not begin to see all of them, but there are many which contain some depictions of the member that interests you.

Thanks, as always, for your comments.


--UU