Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

off our meds tonight, are we, zoso?

Meds? That's funny Scarecrow. I don't take meds, but I do teach writing and literature, but I doubt you 'd be able to get in since there are entrance exams in both Literature and mathematics...

But you do try hard: we'll give ya an A for effort, but, alas, a D for performance....

LOL!!!!!!

Don Rickles Mail Order School of Comedy.

oh yeah!

too funny.

It may seem like Don Rickles to one who has never read anything remotely resembling wit or satire.

them that can
do
them that can't
teach

Trite. I guess since you can neither do nor teach, you can sell dope, eh?

I do and I teach
but alas, these days I only buy.

Well, I like to read Dave Barry's "Wit's End" occasionally and I read Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" once upon a time.

Does that count?

LOL!

*wink*

Alright, I have had enough fun "dommeing" you, at least for now.

Bone Nuit.

yer my favorite dominatrix, zoso

Naw Miss Scarecrow-Rot, MASTER. and you, poor clown, are Slave.. Dat's the Names. Put it to memory.

G'night, Dom Reckless!

Come back manana and recite us some Italian Petrarchian verse, ok?

We do love you, y'know.

zlats-

you answered some rhetorical questions... not that you could have known...
that gascoigne url is the very one i've been looking at. when i have the patience i enjoy the luminarium site.

i am the worst editor and the best editor. depends on the moment. i hate editing. but it's all just the jumble of the brain. i love it.

see?

as far as science and art are concerned... they’ve always belonged together in my mind. or they are the things that interest me most. which i guess is nice since i dont think they get mixed enough.

ab-

frankly, my family had a bird when i was 10 or 12. my mother didnt like the parakeet mess and kept in the spare bedroom. i think it died of lack of heat. sad.

i’ve not studied birds. i read a bunch of articles about em online and in a mag or two around the house and went from there. but your bird story is interesting. considering the polygamous behavior of bower birds and the monogamy of a lot of other birds... you cant manage to be polygamous if you gotta worry about building a nest for a lady bird... sometimes a bird cant decide which lady bird to chase...

but, if it really took the jilted female a year to re-mate(if you’ll pardon the non-term) does that make her a very good mate? i mean selection-wise shouldnt she have been looking for the next man to finish up her nest so she could lay a clutch and continue the lineage?

this is a very interesting bird story you’ve told... i’ll be thinking about it for a while.

pereZ-

i just think cagneyian dialect would call for an R.

the emersonian mode comment reminded me about all that emerson i read in college... thank you... i know he’s around here somewhere.

i’m sort of thematically collecting stories etc. about animals... so this is part of a bigger thing to be cobbled together... as far as bridges and fairies... i already wrote a book about that...

rock hudson i get. monty clift, though, never made any sense to me.

rod-

thanks. i dont think it’s an article though. i think it’s fiction. but it could be anything.

Mindbum: She wasn't a very good mate, selection-wise. Her genes were against her all the way around -- her coloration, her attitude, her fertility (most zebra finches are capable of laying 3 or 4 clutches of eggs a year, of 4 to 6 eggs apiece, and most hatch). Last but not least, she died a few months after her one chick was weaned. To do her credit, she chose her own mate (or he chose her); I did not choose him. If I remember it right, he was another social misfit -- a nice, healthy, standard colored zebra finch who just didn't get it. He had his own story, and a long period of mourning for his unrequited "love," finally followed by a mating with my old maid gray-ticked bird.

I didn't force anything. I just threw these birds together and watched the results.

Praise the poem of bowerbird