Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

yeah, for sure. Had a "friend" - former colleague - who fawned over me, poured on the flattery - called me Mr. Spock, talking up my laboratory expertise - contacted me infrequently after I retired, but only when he wanted something from me. Months, years could go by without a word - then out of the ...

or maybe it's just
that some old books
are worth rereading

little dog
gauges her chances
with a bird

robins
left homeless
by april snow

wary chickadees
inspecting me
from a branch

death
life
one coin
two faces
declining not an option

vernal pools
rife with primal sex -
wood frogs!

been a long time since Red & Blue have embraced - it'd be a better place if it could happen again... maybe when our toxic generations have left the stage & the next assume the lead......

godspeed, old man - surgery has come a long way from those long-ago days that we called its practitioners "sawbones"... may your sleep be deep may your nurses be kind and gentle (and not offended by a little flirting) may your stay be brief and your roommate quiet and the experience rich enough to f...

Hey, thanks - yeah, these trailside encounters are usually cordial and harmless, but every once in a while... I can only think of one other that made me uncomfortable - two young guys at a campfire who'd surrounded me - but at least then I'd had a big dog with me. Our subconscious minds rarely lead ...

lone raven calls -
i hear you, brother...
I hear you

  ( This is a true story. Happened the same weekend I found & wept at the grave of HP Lovecraft. No connection between the events. Just sayin'. I wrote it up when the details were fresh so I could forget them. ) September 2, 2011 – Labor Day weekend, warm & pleasant. Summertime – when the livin’ is ...

wireless connection been failing for months like an old car that sometimes runs and sometimes walks and sometimes does nothing at all almost like dial-up only less reliable three service calls sure hope this last was the One 'cause I seem to be back with all new wifi stuff so yes, thank you, I'll ha...

I like the painting, by the way...!

"My ancestors built this country" - right, after stealing it from its rightful owners......

Agree, the demographic has long been there - the pseudo-christian zealots, the gun enthusiasts, mostly undereducated white guys frightened & bewildered by the country's changing mores, and resentful of those trying to bring it about. Feeling outnumbered perhaps, until Newt Gingrich's Contract With A...