Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Entomology and etymology.
Both have always
been to me, intriguing!

(Though, no, I have
no affinity for bugs,
I do, it's true,
have an affinity
for meaning.)

Trouble is,
I often get the two confused
and can't tell which is which!

So, often I've been forced
to eat my moths and
caterpillars, switch
my mode from syllables
to a crawling itch.

If I've confused you, too,
I know you'll tell me.
Willy ya?

I don't mean to beg
or ask you for
too much
or bitch
to know your
thoughts on this.

Don't be cilia.

silly celiac disease
so uncomfortable eating wheat crackers and cheese
we never got along

&

etymologically speaking, i go to the root
before i agree to a bee sting
i wanna know its mama

words bug me.

Mr. Og Nash has nothing on you, m'lady:

So, often I've been forced
to eat my moths and
caterpillars, switch
my mode from syllables
to a crawling itch.

There's a real syllabic dance going on there . . .


--Z

Oh man!!! You've made my day, Zlatko! No.. you've made my week and month and year.... hell, my life! ha! He's one of my all time faves! Such a comment from you? I feel like i've arrived! Now, if the New Yorker only agreed with you! Thanks for your kind words, N!

The NEW YORKER only agrees on relatives.

For instance, if you were a cartoonist and graphic novelist like Art Spiegelman ( whom I admire), wouldn't you find it handy to have your wife as the cover editor of THE NEW YORKER?

Francoise Mouly.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/stor ... 50,00.html




--Z

p.s. You deserve every word of that praise, Madame D.



( self-portrait by Art Spiegelman)

Dear Dor:

I send you ( and all) the following link, not because Enrico is a poet like you, but because his work has the whimsy, the ardor, the energy and the good humor and love ( with sometimes a delicate neurotic, inward-looking twist) that yours does.

Enrico Casarosa is a Pixar Studios animation artist whose creative energies overflow ( fortunately for us) into thousands of sketches, cartoons, comic stories, narratives and observations. His blog website can be found here:

http://enricocasarosa.com/wordpress.1/

Enrico carries the force of a hurricane made of several million jujubes. I have rarely seen so much energy in the service of probing Good. By which I mean EC is a force for good in the art world.

I also mention him because he has designed t-shirts for the 11th Annual SketchCrawl, a real 21st century event.

http://www.gfxartist.com/general/general_news/131106

Here is the t-shirt site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/casarosa/43439495/


Enrico was one of my fellow "interview-ees" on Susan Henderson's blog this past summer.

http://litpark.com/2006/08/31/enrico-casarosa/





( a kitchen in Venice by Enrico Casarosa)

A final link:

A sketchcrawling story by Enrico can be found here:


http://www.enricocasarosa.com/UNABpage1.html


--Z

Doreen I have admired your writing for years, so glad you are still writing and that I stopped in.

Origins
back to the beginning of
one language
one thought
one mind.

Love lots
Deb.