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,…
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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…
What do you see # 33 — The Wayback
Professor Charlton William Green has devoted his career to two major paths of research. One path focuses on time travel and one path focuses on reversing the aging process. Professor Green had his 106th birthday today. He’s running out of time. After his six children, twelve grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren, and twenty-four great-great-grandchildren held a birthday…
dVerse — prosery 14 — The Inperturbable Street
We go in different directions down the imperturbable street. –Gwendolyn Brooks A pair of mourning doves wheels away, startled when the keychain lands near them. “Don’t be a child. You have custody of Merlot,” Gillian says. Harold had never hated himself as much as he did right now. Why had he ignored the red…
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