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So here it is.. a blog. Repository of some of my present musings and interests. Sometimes things pop into my head that should probably stay there - it is possible I shall share at least some of them here. (Naturally I shall filter out the ones about my sordid obsession with the culinary dark arts, one has to protect the innocent!) Please feel free not to take this too seriously, much of it could wind up being snippets of things that amuse me. Yesterday I came up with this: Few politicians can be considered first class, but not a few are number twos. What can I do with it? Nothing springs to mind, except perhaps blog it. Perhaps in some other life I'm a failed stand-up comedian. I have the beginnings of an idea to introduce another player into the Mr Moonlight story, a nice visual has occurred to me, and a summoning gone wrong seems appropriate. When I finish up here I shall literally put pen to paper. I find writing at least initially longhand helps my ideas flow. When I type up what I've written, I give it a first revision at the same time, and as a bare minimum check my spellings and grammar . I do want to keep tabs on my current reading here. I usually have several books on the go at the same time. Currently I am working through 'Pyramids' by Terry Pratchett. I reread Pratchett's books over and over - usually at work where they provide much needed amusement whilst I eat breakfast. 'The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle', by Stuart Turton was loaned to me by a friend who shares a love of murder mysteries, (especially Agatha Christie's works). It is a new take on the genre and very very clever. The protagonist occupies different bodies - a selection of the guests at the house where Evelyn is murdered. Each day he spends in a different guest, and he has been tasked with discovering the murderer - or maybe saving Evelyn from actually being murdered, it is hard to tell. The book twists and turns and is quite intriguing. 'New Science - Principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations' is an English translation by David Marsh of 'La Scienza Nuova' by Giambattista Vico, published in 1725. Not far into this yet, I had to find a copy of the frontispiece online, as it wasn't included in the Kindle edition. The first part of the book explains the idea - and uses a detailed description of the frontispiece to convey this. So being without it would have made things somewhat harder. 'The Complete Works of Michael De Montaigne' is again a translation, this time by Donald M. Frame. Montaigne's Essays are famous, I kept reading about them, so treated myself to a nice hardbound copy to dip into - usually just before bedtime. So there we have it - a blog entry - enjoy! (whispers almost inaudibly 'Bon Appétit). |
| WDC has taken a bit of a back pedal this evening, as I went to see a film at the cinema with my eldest son. We watched 'Moonfall', having seen trailers for it when we went to see 'The Matrix Resurrections' at the end of December. I didn't have great expectations of 'Moonfall', but it surprised me, it was way better than I'd expected. Sure it was hockum, but I LIKE hockum. The plot was silly, the moon changing it's orbit - wreaking havoc on Earth, and turning out to be nothing like what we all think it is, (cheese! - sorry, I'll be good). The heroes ride a museum piece out to save everyone and it all ends as you'd expect. 90 minutes of pretty great entertainment, silly, but fun. I've been thinking about my March event,leading to an April Giveaway, I am so going to regret this. Part of my thinking is that I shall use a static item to showcase the pieces reviewed. Then I thought, what if I commit to reviewing the new member's story/poem etc. as well? (gulp), Then I thought, what if I further offer to review an item from the existing member's portfolio too, as a further thank you, over and above getting a merit badge. I'll give this more thought, because it will involve a lot of work, but then all things worthwhile do. What do you think gentle reader? |
Let's see if this works:  Perfect! This was my first attempt at a trinket, I hope you like it. Old joke: Joker: "My dog has no nose." Straight man: "Really? How does it smell?" Joker: "Depends what he's been rolling in recently." (aural prompt: please insert a drum sting of your choice here.) Speaking of jokers or to be more specific fools, (visual prompt, the author takes an elaborate bow at this point), as you may know by now, or not if this is the first time you've encountered me, I like to plan ahead. Sometimes I plan a body, but this is not the time to digress into murder mysteries. Where was I? Oh yes. In March I shall be running a giveaway that I'm planning for April 1st - or as some of us know it April Fool's Day, hence it will be grandly titled A Very Foolish Giveaway Now don't quote me on this, but I'm considering creating a more exclusive trinket for this event, something of a self portrait, if I can find the makeup I need. (Flashback prompt: Simpsons episode with Homer having an erotic picture taken of himself, "Light is not your medium." "We need more Vaseline on the lens.(Trowels on a thick layer of same.)" Back to the point, what will be the nature of this foolish giveaway I hear you asking, (please don't ask me about the voices!). Well I may have to iron out the details, but the thrust is this. I'm going to ask our wonderful WDC members of longer standing to review something written by a new member, (exact details as to what constitutes a new member will be one of the ironed out bits). For their trouble, the member will get a nice shiny merit badge, and quite possibly an exclusive trinket. The new member will ALSO receive a merit badge, probably of the appropriate genre that they've written in. "I hear that you like to plan ahead" I hear you saying, (again please don't ask...) "It says so right there." (pointing up to the appropriate paragraph). This is true gentle reader, and the next giveaway is planned for ... May the Fourth. Spoilers! |
| I should not do this drunk, but oh well, what the hey. There are types of drunk, as some of you will know. Before I get sleepy, I'm a happy drunk. Since I don't do this often, it doesn't actually take a lot for me to get happily buzzed, and when I do, my natural inclination, which is to love everyone, comes to the fore. Embarrassing huh!? Well no, not really. See I'm a deeply flawed human being (at least in part), (that's at least in part human for those who love nonsense), and because of that I'm slow to judge anyone. (Unless they hurt cats, then they should be smeared with BBQ sauce and left in a small room with some hungry tigers). Today's strange ideas include 'Enter The Draino', which might actually see the light of day, because I'm thinking of ideas for the Screams weekly contest,
  's The Contest Challenge,
This must be a train of thought thing, because prior to this I was thinking about Saddam Hussain's Secret Hidden Drains. This would recast the frankly imaginary 'WMD' as the equally absurd 'MFS', (Massive Flushing Systems). I'm also considering writing 'Let Them Eat Cud', an exploration of the unsuspected presence of camels in the French Aristocracy. I've 'leaked' a teaser for my next three giveaways of Merit Badges. Did I mention that I'm having fun? Lot's of Valentine's stuff going on, and I have availed myself of some of the possibilities, I do love this site, and several (many) of the wonderful people on it, (almost as much as I like bracketed comments or asides!) |
| Some days suck. Today was not such a day. Today totally rocked. Something that has been preying on my mind suddenly resolved itself, and very much in my favour. But that was not all, I also sorted out the first practical step to getting a card machine sorted out for our shop, something that has been on my to-do list for a long while now. I had a nice day with my wife and our dog. Lots to be thankful for, and I am. One of my problems as a person, is that I have so many ideas, but I don't always have the ability to focus narrowly on just one of them. Which means things get half done, (or less). This is frustrating, and it can feel like I have streamers of loose ends trailing around with me. Ho hum. January was a terrible month as regards writing anything, or reviewing anything. I do hope that I can improve on this in February. |
| Today I sent out a lot of merit badges. I think it is fair to state that they have been well received. I couldn't have sent so many without help. Now what this has illustrated to me is that WDC is a great community, and there are some truly amazing people amongst you. I'm a very selfish person. It gave me a lot of pleasure to give those merit badges away. It gave me more pleasure when some of you told me it had made your day to get your badge. Suffice to say, I plan more self indulgence - more giveaways, and hopefully more silly fun too. Happy Groundhog Day WDC members. |
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). I mostly reject that. I'm eating rice with an egg this morning but Pannya just brought me chocolate milk from 7/11 (bless him; I really don't need it).
