Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

the Dodge Poetry Fest was excellent, as usual. astill a bit to focused on establishment poets of the academic variety, but nonetheless some great eprformances. especially remarkable were two poets whose work is totally new to me though they've been at it for a while: Cecilia Vicuna, a Chilean poetes...

The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, some thirty years ago, wrote a brief essay entitled 'Dreams are the Universal Language'. He noted that everyone is creative in their dreaming, that the stories and symbolic manifestations in the dreams of persons -- who in their waking life would never dream of, say, d...

a question:

what is the scale of that cactus pic?

hey, thanks.
but doreen did all the hard work so far, setting up the studio!

Welcome to "the Anti-Academy" -- or shall i say "the (anti)Academy?!" -- the full subtitle of this studio is: aesthetics or philosophy of art; cultural and literary theory; and critical social thought. thus the discussion range is wide and hopefully the discussion will be invigorating but aboive all...

Everywhere you go in the West: there is the University of Phoenix. Its campus has a formal unity on the astral plane. I will meet you at the student union. There will be great copulations as Jim Morrison predicted. We will wash our hands, afterwards, in reems of old books. The sweat of pages will sh...

alas, what has become of Litkicks? from branching arboreal discussions to black-or-white rant-votes! what is 'victory'? what is 'america'? these are interesting things to discuss but not ones that require you to vote for one 'side' or another of some artificaly contructed debate. if you think there ...

well, i doubt there is an answer to the question of meaning of life. only, you gotta find it out for yourself. i guess it just comes down to this. you think there is something real to which the opinions of people about sanity is supposed to correspond. just as 2+2=4 even if everyone says 2+2=5 or th...

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she asked why my eyes were wet
and my mouth was always frowning

'cause i haven't reached shore yet
but at least i'm no longer drowning

as in

'Heidegger's notion of being is as meaningfulless as Deleuze's concept of the Body without Organs.' -- George W. Bush (?)

on route 15 there is a strip joint advertising free lunch buffet on monday through thursday it's sorta like come for the hot wings 'n' ribs stay for the tits 'n' ass inside an old woman with a Socratic beard is giving a lecture as she removes her nightgown she is saying 'Capitalist consumer culture ...

starts i thionk tomorrow thru the weekend. check out www.grdodge.org

anyone wanna go? i will probably head there on Saturday morning.

how does one insert photos into messages? i am cyberignorant i suppose but the button the says Img seems to presuppose a link to a site. is it possible to just upload photos from say a disc?

the antelope mtn shot and the last one too are outstanding. fantastic photos!