Month: June 2020
#MM Music Challenge — “For All We Know”
Jim Adams is the tune-slinging host of Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Music Challenge. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on, “Just the Two of Us” and use it for a short story, a piece of flash fiction, or a poem that you can share with the WordPress writing community. We gotta go for all we…
Novelty Song Friday #13 — “Thumbsucker,” by Shel Silverstein
Per wikipedia: There is a an eye-popping amount of information highlighting Shel in wikipedia. I’m including just a bit of it. If you want to learn more about his many talents, achievements, etc., I encourage you to click the link. Sheldon Allan “Shel” Silverstein (9/25/30 – 5/10/99) was an American writer known for his cartoons,…
Thursday Inspiration 60 — Cheeky Beast!
Five minutes after opening the back slider, I heard a terrible caterwauling from the kitchen. It wasn’t Mlady and it wasn’t Dotty. Coming around the corner, I saw Dotty puffed out like a Halloween cat. She looked almost normal size. She tip-toed forward, her eyes fixed on the beast outside of the screen. The macho…
#FF — In the year 2120
Forget about Tesla and NASA — Amazon created the future with its innovations. What started out as home delivery of everything from artichokes to zithers through the public postal service morphed into a fleet-of-vans lifeline during the beginning of Covid Times a hundred years ago. These days vans are driven by AI androids called Amabots….
Movies, Movies, Movies! #36 June 9, 2020
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! This week features 2 from my collection (Death Proof and Blade Runner 2049) Grindhouse: Death Proof (2007) Starring: Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Tracie Thoms, Rose McGowan, Jordan Ladd, Mary Elizabeth Winstead Director: Quentin Tarantino Genres: Action, Thriller, Slasher, Grindhouse Synopsis:…
#Haikai Challenge #142: firefly, lightning bug (hotaru) — language of love
Understanding the mysteries of the language of love takes warm midsummer nights under the full moon – fireflies signal lifelong devotion Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says: This week, write the #haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to the…
