Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

As some of you probably know, I spent thirty-three years teaching composition and literature in American colleges in three states. The students are not to blame for the current abandonment of their own language. The society that emphasizes speed and convenience over craftsmanship diminishes attentio...

Dear LR:


Try this link to an article about "Milking the Internet Cash Cow."

Learn how communication companies are entrepreneurs in the surveillance business; they're eager to anticipate the FBI's every move.


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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/06 ... p_bonanza/



--Z

Dear LR: When I became a teacher in the California State College System in 1972, I had to be fingerprinted by the FBI and sign a loyalty oath. The oath maintained that I was not "an agent for the overthrow of the US government by force or violence." It didn't assert anything about writing, drawing p...

Dear Doreen: I love "The Day of the Triffids" too, and many other 50's sf movies. John Wyndham is a much better than average science fiction writer. Do you know Wyndham's other famous novel, "The Midwich Cuckoos"? That novel was made into a film ( a rather good one) that might interest you. Here's a...

Actually, JC never said that. But it's a nice improvisation I've heard for years from my drunken, improvising friends. I played bluegrass for about 30 years, so Alabama is not foreign territory. It's great to be in touch, Toe. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a poet too, after his fashion. http://united-s...

Dear Studio Eight All: My comic strip ( "The Literary Life") has been running for four weeks on Brian's literary magazine: ZYGOTEINMYCOFFEE (link) http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com/issue19contents9d.html Just click on the indicia and you'll go to the comic strip. The strip appears weekly-- every Monda...

Dear Levi: The Internet and cyber-missives present a strange conundrum: There we find the illusion of intimacy and shared proclivities without the sacrifices demanded by a genuine "community"--e.g. I don't have top give up some of my water so your family can irrigate, etc.. (cf"The Milagro Beanfield...

Cattina: Since you're in a receptive mood, here's another weird recommendation: Robert Walser 1878-1956. Recently, J. M. Coetzee ( another master of the original, unexpected and strangely oblique-- you should read lots of him, starting with "Waiting for the Barbarians", one of the best books writtte...

In "I see the Boys of Summer", Dylan Thomas wrote: "O see the poles are kissing as they cross . . ." Those beautiful lines recall the political ( and philosophical) truth that "poles" often "kiss and cross." I am thinking here of Gore Vidal and Pat Buchanan-- who are closer together now than ever be...

Thanks for responding, LR.

There's an interesting interview with Pat Buchanan on Antiwar.com today.

I thought it might pique your interest:

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/wanniski.php?articleid=3520



--Z

The Polish writer and pictorial artist Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) is not well known in the US, but is a marvelously inventive novelist, draftsman and muralist with quirky but sharply disciplined moral and satirical resources at his command. Schulz wrote novels, translated the work of other writers ( h...

Not only is this a strong and much-needed comment, LR, but, once again, it got me to stumbling and meandering ( not to mention malingering . . .) around the WEB looking for ancilliary comment. One of the most interesting I found can be read here: http://www.notbored.org/markoff.html It's a NYTimes a...

I sometimes envy folks who play electrified, though my "pure acoustic" ethic these days doesn't really limit the gigs I get; it's my determination to forge a genuine marriage this one pass through the cosmos I have. Last October, for example, I played eleven gigs. It was insane. I play on weekends, ...

"neatly clipped hedges . . ." catches all the horror of the scene you've built in this poem, LR. Nicely done, and chilling to the bone, as you said. By the way, your heroin piece was beautifully done; it had the mordant bite of the authentic about it, and the diction was direct, yet also dreamy. Bur...

A rock 'n roll band, featuring Dave Barry, Stephen King and Amy Tan as performers.

See 1998 year under Warren Zevon's link:

http://www.artemisrecords.com/zevon_bio.aspx?abbr=zevon



--Z ( now I DO like people whose names start with "Z")