You should post this at the writers forum...I've been searching the web for information on domes as houses. I could consider the story on a much smaller scale sort of like pioneers.

In my case it's cats. My kids always try to bring them in. One night on my paper route a small black kitten crawled out of a ditch just as I walked up to the house to throw the paper on the porch. Two days later after an arm full of scratches, stuff on the carpet, and fleas in my kids' beds, the kitten was returned. My nine,six, and two year old learned their dad just isn't a cat person even for a short time.

Now, this isn't the best example because I wrote it today when I was online. I just thought of the scene where Fredrich saw all the eyes on the false Maria and went nutso. Rotwang had her dance in front of the captains to convince them she was a perfect subtitute he left no detail unturned, hence the sweat. In the story the false Maria goes underground and convinces the workers to destroy all the machinery. They have no idea what the machines they work on do and end up flooding the city. The false Maria goes up in flames when she gets caught by the crowd. Rotwang falls off a roof. Fredrick and the real Maria get back together and the workers somehow negotiate a settlement with the city master so they can come upstairs and enjoy the fruits of their labor...Its a very complicated story but for 1928 an excellent piece of work by Fritz Lang. Go to your local lib and check out the flick. The media( silent film) was a sries of vignettes designed to tell an intense tell while keeping the flick short.

I liked it Caledonia...I can like or hate bagpipe music so maybe they ran 'cause the tune was baaaad.

Proud to be an American...this is my history anyone who tries to tell me that everyone comes from somewhere else and that strength is in our diversity can...strength is in our unity. This is the United not the Diversified states of America. Pride is sitting in the barracks in San Diego listening to the Mayauez story unfold. Sadness is watching President Nixon's helicopter fly over your barracks in Bethesda when he had to resign. Anger is watching the Marines evacuating as Viet Nam fell and feeling betrayed as the SVA collasped without so much as a stand expecting our sudden return. I was twenty-two in 1975. I was a Naval Corpsman. One day as colors were sounding and I stood at the door of Bethesda hospital watching the CNO Admiral Zumwalt walked out the door and stood next to me watching. Yes therein is pride I'll always remember the high and low watching the scene as our flag was lowered.

Has anyone ever seen the Movie Metropolis? Maria is Rotwangs niece. Rotwang is an evil scientist the predessesor of Darth Vader complete with the glove covered hand. The Captains of Industry are the elite business owner who live i the city in the sky. Frederick is the son of the Master of the city. The workers are blue ants toiling in a city underground all day servicing the machines. The Maria in chains is the true Maria an angel who tries to instill hope for a better future in the workers and finally the Maria dancing as Hasagawa's is the false Maria an android created by Rotwang to extinguish hope in the workers and quell any dissent among them.... The narrator is a person outside the scene as it was a silent film but as a vignette there are four scenes describes in a rapid pace. The whole point is who is in control here...

How did you upload the photos to the forum? I'm still working on some things. I have a vignette I'll probably post later today...it would be nice if I could post it directly from my word processor but I haven't figured out how yet. You know with all this writing going back and forth the average file size is only about 2K compared with how many meg for the pictures. One picture is not worth a thousand words in this case: it worth millions.

Now you know why I think the writers forum is a good forum for renderosity. Words convey graphic images...In this case I don't feel your photos go with your writing at least I hope not. Read Sylvia's new poem she has a graphic in the Poser gallery today. I think its great and asked her to post it here.

No there's no syle but because of the brevity of the form you need to find that point. Too much detail will ruin it too little and your reader is clueless. There is a tightrope to walk and your skill will either leave the reader wanting to read more or your piece will be circle filed. In College writing we approached a vignette with the notion that you had 30 seconds to grab a readers's attention. That's it one shot no more. Make them want to read on... then pull the plug.

But Fate is a hunter. It preys upon the unwary suddenly snatching them into the experience they only dreamed as a possibility. Ripping is for poetry. Prose requires a sofer touch. Now Vignette's are one step up from poetry. From what I understand the art is in knowing when to leave something unsaid...kinda like a mystery. Clarity of image versus suggestion. look at your work and think if I didn't say that would its meaning still get across?

Bonus Nachos the night shift is o'er and I am did out hooey.

I think with a more complicated beat say a 8:1 or a 15:2 it wouldn't sound too bad. Put a little feather duster workin the drums and it wouldn't be bad at all and in show business when a film is done it's in the can. When a session is done its a wrap.

That's another.The poem is about the Challenger exploding the reference to firebird is a Phoenix crashing to earth in flames to be reborn from the fires of its own destruction, and the getting to close to the sun and the waxen feathers, well I've already explained that. The hubricient (overpuffed with pride) attitude of the US towards its space program was like Icarus so taken with his ability to fly he flew too close to the sun. The US felt any risk minimal and pushed the envelope to launch..the results were the same. Icarus and the Challenger both fell.

Forget about it...Send a message to to crescent about setting up a poetry workshop. She can schedule the chat time and all of us can get to the room and rip up the lines. Not bad cc through...unglued I think M would object he has a nice picture of icarus falling with his feathers trailing behind and the image of waning and waxing space flight. No, I don't think glue quite fits, but it sounds ok.

Thanks chuck...by the way I took a side trip to your gallery. I am not fat. I just think the ladies should be a little juicier