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by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 22nd, 2008, 2:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Question about Emily
Replies: 7
Views: 809

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://...
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 20th, 2008, 8:39 pm
Forum: Culture, Politics, Philosophy
Topic: MAJOR NEW U.S. AFGHAN ESCALATION
Replies: 7
Views: 1327

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...
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 20th, 2008, 3:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: So, Doreen says Solstice Jam is approaching!
Replies: 18
Views: 1935

Let us burn the Wicker Man . . .

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

( Nods . . .)


--UU
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 20th, 2008, 3:23 pm
Forum: Culture, Politics, Philosophy
Topic: MAJOR NEW U.S. AFGHAN ESCALATION
Replies: 7
Views: 1327

MAJOR NEW U.S. AFGHAN ESCALATION

Ending wars? Cutting back?


Hmmmmm . . .

( read here)


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



UU
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 17th, 2008, 10:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Obama's Team - the Latest Idea
Replies: 13
Views: 1316

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...
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 17th, 2008, 3:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Have you noticed?
Replies: 2
Views: 454

. . . 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
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 14th, 2008, 10:19 am
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: Dry road and moonlight
Replies: 2
Views: 598

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...
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 12th, 2008, 12:40 pm
Forum: Literature & Film
Topic: A FAILED REMAKE
Replies: 1
Views: 1001

A FAILED REMAKE

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 ...
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 12th, 2008, 12:08 pm
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: 1950s pinup model Bettie Page dies in LA at 85
Replies: 7
Views: 995

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...
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 12th, 2008, 11:55 am
Forum: Rant, Rage & Laugh
Topic: pot is not
Replies: 456
Views: 59505

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
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 12th, 2008, 11:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Check This Out
Replies: 6
Views: 736

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


--UU
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 11th, 2008, 9:49 pm
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: “the interregnum of despair”
Replies: 11
Views: 1287

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...
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 11th, 2008, 5:32 pm
Forum: Asylum for the Terminally Vain
Topic: “the interregnum of despair”
Replies: 11
Views: 1287

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...
by UMBERTO UMBERTO
December 10th, 2008, 10:41 pm
Forum: Artstalk
Topic: Note to Umberto Umberto About Feet
Replies: 2
Views: 1841

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

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