Happy New Year Studio Eighters

[Lightning Rod]

Reflections and Projections for Studio Eight 2006

I would like to give a personal thank-you to all the participants (no, I should say collaborators) in the S8 project.

Doreen and I try to keep the ashtrays empty and the floors swept here, but you guys are the reason that this community is alive.

I don't know why this online community is in a different class than most. Maybe it's just that every parent thinks his child is the most beautiful on earth. But I have surveyed numerous discussion boards and my observation is that the quality of discourse here is above the median line.

This community has developed in its own organic way. Doreen and I didn't build it. You built it. And if you build it, I will cum.

I think we have all lucked out. Maybe it's just that birds of a feather flock together. The people that gravitate here are in general (1.) serious about their work, whatever it may be. (2.) courteous and humane and (3.) have more sense than god gave a screwdriver.

Part of our good fortune is that many of us have met in person. The boundaries of distance and border and technology haven't prevented us from touching one another. We perceive each other as real people and not just cyber creatures.

Studio Eight has a life of its own, like any real community. I just think this community happens to be particularly rich. We have developed a rolling, real-time art gallery-magazine-talk radio show-night club. It's an amazing thing. I have watched many internet communities degenerate into spats and name calling and useless babble, but I haven't seen that here. The content is rich and the level of bullshit is low.

This is not because of anything that doreen or I have done. I think it's just because we have all been extremely fortunate to find people of like mind and disposition. We seem to have one thing in common--we are dedicated to our pursuits, whatever they are, be it writing or art or music or theater or just the art of living.

This is my official statement of love for you all. May we continue to enrich each other's lives in the coming year. (I'm not mentioning any names--you know who you are.)

[Arcadia]

thanks l-rod! Have a great year you too!
kisses and thanks for you and doreen,

Arcadia

[Doreen Peri]

geezzzzz.. lightning rod...

i appreciate everybody here, too, and you're really absolutely RIGHT that whatever happens here has absolutely nothing to do with us so why in the hell did you even put our names in it?

lol

love to all..

thanks for being here

happy 2006

[Anonymous-one]

to all the cool cats and kittens here at Studio 8 , happy new year.

[stilltrucking]

It was a great year, a very good year. It was a fast year too. Got dam I hate this place. I been trying to cultivate boredom, trying to make time drag out. Too much fun, just to much fun. Where did another year go? Seemed like I was just a kid when I stumbled onto your place here.

thank you all
been a purrfect year for me.
I wish you all a happy healthy
2006.

[mtmynd]

Nice sentiments, L'Rod... were you fucked up and teary-eyed when you wrote that? I woulda been... and was a wee bit anyhoo. A really nice flow from your heart.

Good people around this joint... may a few more fortunates find their way here in '06.

Peace up!

[whimsicaldeb]

This community has developed in its own organic way. Doreen and I didn't build it. You built it. And if you build it, I will cum.


no...

you guys DID build it ~ giving us all someplace to come, and I thank you. Your "Field of Dreams" has become a reality; and a reality that we are sharing together; and it is a great place to hang out, learn & share. But it started with you; your dreams ...

thank you, Doreen, Clay

[panta rhei]

good people, good place.
makes warm wild vibes together.

thanks to d & c for offering the space.
and thank you, everyone, for providing the mind and spirit.

happy new year, all!

-a

[mousey1]

Ahhhh, what lovely sentiments. I echo all here...echo echo...

And Doreen and Lrod don't sell yourselves' shorts you're worth every penny and more!

I too am appreciative of this welcoming ground. Lord knows there are few and far between places where I feel so comfortable and able to speak my mind even if it tends to be of the absurd kind.

I may wander, I may stray, but I'll always find my way back again.

Thanks for the airtime, or in my case hotairtime.

You've orchestrated a damned fine site and it is awfully good of you to let the inmates run wild and free.

Cheers.