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Nov 6 2008

Thursday’s Thirteen: Nano procrastinations


I doing the NaNoWriMo and here are thirteen things that keep me from working on my nano WIP or story.
  1. I’m hungry, I think that candy in the candy bowl is calling my name.
  2. I’m thirsty, I think I have one soda left way in the back of the fridge.
  3. I need to use the bathroom, even though it’s the tenth time in the last hour.
  4. I want to pet the cat she seem lonely; “here kitty-kitty. Ow, don’t bite me.”
  5. Is it lunch or dinner time yet?
  6. Did some one email me? It has been two hours since the last time I checked.
  7. Is that show I want to watch on? I better check.
  8. I’m cold I better get a sweater on. Ooh, better yet I’ll change into pajamas, even though its only seven o’clock in the afternoon.
  9. Did I hear the UPS truck outside? I think my package I ordered from Amazon is due.
  10. Time to update my word count.
  11. I better check what’s going on in the nano forums.
  12. Hey, I better do my Thursday’s thirteen!
Oct 16 2008

Thursday’s Thirteen: Classic Horror

These bad boys of horror are the real deal, the classic that we remember.
  1. Häxan (1922)
  2. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
  3. The Unknown (1927)
  4. Frankenstein (1931)
  5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
  6. Freaks (1932)
  7. King Kong (1933)
  8. The Invisible Man (1933)
  9. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  10. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
  11. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
  12. Dead of Night (1945)
  13. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

I don’t know why ‘The Fly’ wasn’t on the list I found but I’ll let it be my bonus movie:

This is the scene where the fly was caught in the web saying “help me help me,” sent me right over the edge when I was thriteen. My mom had to put me to bed.

I haven’t been quite the same since, lol.

No I don’t like horror, but classic horror is okay. I just can’t take the new stuff now that I’m all grown up and then some.

Oct 10 2008

Thursday’s Thirtenn: Early Horror Movies

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In honor of Halloween that’s coming up this month, here is a list of thirteen early horror movies you might not ever hear about.

Popular horror movies didn’t start in the 1940’s look these over and see if you recognize any (I got these from Wikipedia) .

  1. The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent shorts created by film pioneers such as Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the most notable being his 1896 Le Manoir du diable (aka “The House of the Devil”) which is sometimes credited as being the first horror film[2].
  2. Another of his horror projects was 1898’s La Caverne maudite (aka “The Cave of the Demons”, literally “the accursed cave”).
  3. [2] Japan made early forays into the horror genre with Bake Jizo and Shinin no Sosei, both made in 1898.[3]
  4. In 1910, Edison Studios produced the first film version of Frankenstein, thought lost for many years, film collector Alois Felix Dettlaff Sr. found a copy and had a 1993 rerelease.[4]
  5. The early 20th century brought more milestones for the horror genre including the first monster to appear in a full-length horror film, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame who had appeared in Victor Hugo‘s novel, “Notre-Dame de Paris” (published in 1831).
  6. Films featuring Quasimodo included Alice Guy‘s Esmeralda (1906), The Hunchback (1909), The Love of a Hunchback (1910) and Notre-Dame de Paris (1911). [5]
  7. Many of the earliest feature length ‘horror films’ were created by German film makers in 1910s and 1920s, during the era of German Expressionist films.
  8. Many of these films would significantly influence later Hollywood films. Paul Wegener‘s The Golem (1915) was seminal.
  9. in 1920 Robert Wiene‘s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, with its Expressionist style, would influence film-makers from Orson Welles to Tim Burton and many more for decades.
  10. The era also produced the first vampire-themed feature, F. W. Murnau‘s Nosferatu (1922), an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. [6]
  11. Early Hollywood dramas dabbled in horror themes, including versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Monster (1925) (both starring Lon Chaney, Sr., the first American horror movie star).
  12. His most famous role, however, was in The Phantom of the Opera (1925), perhaps the true predecessor of Universal’s famous horror series. [7]
  13. It was in the early 1930s that American film producers, particularly Universal Pictures Co. Inc., popularized the horror film, bringing to the screen a series of successful Gothic features including Dracula (1931).
Jun 26 2008

Thursday’s Thirteen: discribing eye color

Today’s thursdays thirteen I thought I’d list discription of eye color.
  1. Baby blues
  2. Teal; blue-green colored eyes
  3. Azure blue; sky blue.
  4. Sky blue; light blue.
  5. Periwinkle blue; purplish blue.
  6. Sea Green; light green eyes
  7. Iris; which is kind of a light purple.
  8. Ice blue; real light blue.
  9. Hazel; green changes to brown
  10. Moss; dark green
  11. Olive; greenish to brown
  12. Otter; dark brown.
  13. Mississippi; mud brown.

 

What color is your eyes?

How would you describe your eye color?

Jun 6 2008

Thursday’s thirteen: books why I love them.

 

  1. Escapism: oh yeah, I get to go were no one but the imagination has gone before.
  2. A short vacation: when I can’t get away because of time or financial restraints. I just go on a mini vacation with a good book (see above).
  3. Friendship: the friends you meet in a book never tell you they don’t have time for you.
  4. Low tech: grab and book open it up and your inputting information. And it never tells you that this is an illegal action from just reading the darn thing, or that you need to recharge or change the batteries either.
  5. Learning: I have learned so much from books and I still am too.
  6. Adventure: I can read about things that I just don’t have the nerve to do in real life and feel like I am doing them.
  7. Comfort: forget the comfort food if I’m having a bad day, my books are always there for me.
  8. Art: I have art and craft books that are a fun thing to do when you have kids.
  9. Exercise: have you exercised while walking on a treadmill? And didn’t the time pass faster?
  10. Boredom: My daughter is so funny on a day she home “I’m bored.” I often tell her to get out a book and read it. Then it’s “Aw, mom do I have to?” Then later she is so absorbed I can’t hardly get her to stop and eat or go to bed.
  11. Writing: to be a good writer you have to be a good reader.
  12. Connecting with people: A good way to connect to people is to have the same interest, and a good way to find out your interests is to find out if you like the same books
  13. Reading: the bottom line is I just love to read. I love to wile away an lazy afternoon or evening with my favorite author.

What do you like to read?

May 30 2008

Thursday thirteen–why do we say that?

For my Thursday thriteen this week I thought I ask “Why do we say that?”

  1. Why do we say becareful after someone trips? It seems a little late to me, I’ve already tripped why do I need to be careful now?
  2. Why do we call a tooth brush a tooth brush not a teeth brush? I for one have more than one tooth.
  3. Why do we say pair of pants when there is only one? I understand it’s because there are two pair of legs there but I only have one butt.
  4. Why is it so great to eat like a bird when you go out to eat? I know a few young men who want their dates to eat the darn food that they just paid for.
  5. And speaking of young men, my neighew called me dude. The last time I looked I was neither male nor a dude.
  6. Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
  7. Are Clones people two?
  8. Did Adam and Eve have navels?
  9. Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?
  10. Doesn’t ‘expecting the unexpected” make the unexpected expected?
  11. Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn’t zigzag?
  12. What if we told our kids go ahead and take risks….just make sure that everything turns out Okay?
  13. How come you don’t ever hear about gruntled employees? And who has been dissing them anyhow?
Nov 14 2006

There be Knights at the Fair!

The white knight the local hero!
 The black knight the challenger!
Lady Kimberly representing for the ladies.
I think I forgot to mention this one is something of a ham? Posted by Picasa

The joust was exciting, the two knights fought furiously breaking lances after lance against one and other’s shield, until a pile of broken lances where piled on either side.

It was the black knight won the joust match, and the white knight threw down his gauntlet challenged the other to a dual. Then the black knight also threw in his gauntlet accepting the challenge.

They fought with sword until the sparks flew and the swords sang, really they sang like in that movie the singing sword–you didn’t see it? Boy did you miss out.

Then the black knight drew a line in the dirt and spat across it daring the other to cross it, then the white knight drew his own line. Then they played tic tac toe. I am not making this up they did.

Then two cousins (as it happens they are related), then finished the battle with a heated game of rock paper scissors, then hugged and made-up.