Picture Credits: "Snoopy & Woodstock" -- Charles M. Schultz
"Happy Halloween" -- Not Known
Saturday, October 31, 2015
"Old School Monsters that Still Thrill!"
Picture Credits: "Lon Chaney as The Wolfman, 1941" -- Not Known
"Creature from the Black Lagoon" -- pinstake.com
"The Mummy" -- algerblog.blogspot.com
"Bram Stoker Dracula" -- betweenthelines.in
"The Bride of Frankenstein" -- Not Known
Friday, October 30, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
"Fabulous Finds -- Halloween Musings & Amusings -- Whitesboro Writers"
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Monday, October 26, 2015
"Pun Intended -- Moist Owlet"
Picture Credit: somuchpun.com
NOTE: "The owl in the bottom image is the lower half of the original
Saw-Whet owl, with a very Photoshopped head of a much larger,
very wet Eagle Owl on top." -- owls-perch.blogspot.com
Sunday, October 25, 2015
"Write it on your heart ... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Picture Credits:
Candy Corn -- en.wikipedia.org
Candy Corn Kaleidoscope -- flicr.com
Quote Credit: "Daily Gratitude"
Quote Credit: "Daily Gratitude"
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Friday, October 23, 2015
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
"Oz 'n Ends -- CJ Alexander"
"CJ, have you got anything you feel like posting on the blog?"
"Sure, ME, how about something from Breadsongs."
"Let's see it!"
"I'm on it...okay ... here goes ..."
The film, Wizard of Oz, debuted January 1, 1939. Times were tough, capital D Depression and WWII at hand. Guys in short supply everywhere. Women working on farms, factories, keeping things together. Heroines for sure. You put a number of strong womenfolk in a room and you know what happens next: one of them becomes the alpha and the rest fall in, do her bidding.
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| Picture Credit: tvtropes.com |
So Dorothy arrives in Oz. It's Dorothy accidentally killing the East Witch with her hurtling house, it's Dorothy who receives the magical ruby slippers as a gift (not Glinda the North Witch's to give) and it's Dorothy that Elphaba the West Witch mutters curses at. It's all about Dorothy! So now I get it: Dorothy must be the long-awaited 4th: The South Witch. The new alpha witch.
She heads off along the yellow brick road, carrying her yapping little mutt Toto in a hand basket. Determined to get home to her drudge-filled life on a dusty Kansas farm recently decimated by a tornado, she needs all the help she can get. So what does she get? A witless scarecrow, a heartless tin man, and a gutless lion. Gee thanks!
Meanwhile the old Alpha witch (Elphaba, some coincidence in that name, perhaps) tries everything and almost succeeds with the poppy ploy but ultimately it's the dog that tips the power scale in Dorothy's favor. Dorothy of course wafts home in an errant hot air balloon, but it was all a dream. And that's the end of the story except for the moral:
A girl can get into big trouble traveling her path with the witless, heartless and gutless, but if she wants to come out of it alive, she'd best stick with her dog.
"Gee, CJ, that was weird."
"Best I could do on short notice."
"Don't quit your day job, girl."
Monday, October 19, 2015
"Fabulous Finds -- Harry Potter 'Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans' Cookie Jar"
It’s always interesting to see one of my “collectibles” come up for auction on eBay. Watching the bids climb for a favorite piece is fascinating. Two recent auctions of this jar netted the sellers $200+, respectively. I have no intention of selling my “Extremely Rare Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans” cookie jar … it’s such a fun piece.
This cookie jar depicts a bag of “Bertie Botts Beans” introduced in the Harry Potter books and movies. The “BB Beans” are just one imaginative confection described in the story arc. The “BB Beans” are similar in concept to “Jelly Belly” jelly beans (my favorite is "Buttered Popcorn"), with a twist … the flavors are often bizarre and sometimes distasteful (for example, "Vomit") … just the sort of thing to appeal to a child.
“Warner Brothers released this one cookie jar through their stores. Several other Harry Potter jars were produced by Enesco and licensed by Warner Brothers, but this first jar is the only one sold through the WB stores.” (Barbara Crews, Collectibles Expert)
Date Issued -- 2001
Dimensions -- 10.5”
NOTE: Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans are available from:
NOTE: Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans are available from:
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Saturday, October 17, 2015
"For the Love of Leopards ..."
Quote Source: animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/leopard/
Picture Credits: Amur Leopard with Mouth Open -- beauty-animal.blogspot.com
Amur Leopard -- en.wikipedia.org
Leopard Fur Pattern -- commons.wikimedia.org
Snow Leopard -- Unknown