Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

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...

lovely!

Some of these felt like work of the masters. And I liked the sly wordplay, too - "me and me" on the beach, "trick (or) treat" in the spiderweb...

Beautifully done.

sleet and ice
how long before
power fails?

I read an editorial somewhere that said Trump isn't the problem - Trumpism is. He's the arsonist who lit the fire. The tinder was there all along. If Trump hadn't lit the match, someone else would have....

do I know I know,
or just think I think?

I used to, and logged many of them in a dream journal. It showed thematic similarities cropping up again and again: finding my way back from somewhere... buildings housing an unseen evil essence... suites of rooms filled with my childhood memorabilia... losing my vision or hearing... wild excursions...

what need have we for books? we have direct pipelines to Truth! Newsmax, Fox News the University of YouTube! The Holy Church of Meta! only libtards care for books books are old and musty full of moths and worms and worst of all... dangerous ideas indoctrinating our young with heresies like: people w...

the latest iToy name-brand sneakers shirts with a sports logo ... I shoot with an ancient digital Canon EOS only 2 lenses - the 18-55mm kit lens it came with and a 55-250mm telephoto I gifted to myself I recently brought it to a weekly gathering of old colleagues the following week one of the guys b...