W2 - Wendy to the Second Power

This mash-up is very well done! Buffy and Twilight. And the inevitable ending if two characters got together (forget about the Spike affair in the later Buffy seasons though)...

Flash carve a pumpkin online:
http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf

Click DONE and it lights up! It also says ho-ho-ho, which is seasonally disconcerting.

We said goodbye to our interesting (but not as well bonded as some of the others) screenplay workshop group at the Hawaii Writers Retreat. I learned a lot, and can already tell my two scripts that Margaret South re-plotted for me will need to sit and percolate because I'm not feeling attached to them right now.

But during the closing ceremonies, Jonathan from my group and I both won awards for writing badly. Hah!

They have a "bad first sentence" contest here. He got runner up (2nd place) and I got 3rd place. Here's mine -- which reflects the stuff around me this week:


As ukuleles twanged and steel guitars thrummed, Gertrude sat at the hotel’s craft table stringing a special lei for her beloved, Throckmorton, that would tell, through scent and color, just what he meant to her: red for passion, orange for fiery sunsets, yellow for that poor bird all the Hawaiian royalty plucked for their capes, green for the banana leaves that had wrapped the fish in their engagement dinner entrees, blue for the forever brilliant skies over Honolulu, and a bunch of additional flowers for those other rainbow colors she was too tired to remember now, but Throckie would totally understand.


Tomorrow early starts the Hawaii Writers Conference. Opie (Ron Howard) is coming to town!

From the Fail Blog, this is notated as a Privacy FAIL.

Heh, I have so many nightmares with this exact set-up.

So this is what comes of randomly combining two mythical names from a culture you don't know. heh

They aren't even in the same category. Uranus was actually the father (or begetter, or progenitor) of a class of beings called the Titans. He dribbled genital blood on the earth and they sprang up, along with cyclops, furies and giants.

Ah, Uranus. Providing reliable off-color puns since the 1780's...

I think they said this is on Lake Harriet, a big park and lake near Minneapolis. Somebody covertly made and installed a statue of the Loch Ness Monster. Supposedly an artist who does this type of creature work just moved there from NYC, so that's the best guest. For some reason, somebody (the same somebody?) has created a Website for the statue.

I won't publsh the photo since I don't have rights, but a guy I know from my Fortean list took a series of photos. That's his (c)-- D.R. Shoop. Go see, go see!

http://www.darkwatercreativegroup.com/nessieC.jpg

Love it, love it that Al Franken won the seat of a cranky, grasping old Republican senator from Minnesota. Hate it that the guy fought him forever, using the big money coffers of the Repugnant Party to pay the legal fees. Love it that the courts upheld the win, the recount proved the win, and Franken now gets to go to Washington.

Boy, but I wish I'd saved a book I got for Christmas years ago. "Stuart Smalley: I'm Good Enough..." It was the first printing, and I bet it'll be worth some bucks some day! Instead, I sold it to Half-Price Books.

But who could've guessed??

Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" had a truly insane, incoherent video. They literalled it up, like with "Take On Me" by Aha. That one's still my favorite because the literal song is even catchy ("Piiiiiiipe Wrench Fiiiight!"), but the images on this just beg for this treatment.

These funny white boy rappers come up with some funny lines. They get a bunch of their friends to make a land/water video for YouTube, ha! And the topic is a good one on this deadly hot day: "Put on your clothes and jump in the water."


"Hello! Like my costume?"

This is an extremely rare Fennec Hare. Isn't this a freaky looking photo? Or maybe not so freaky to you. I have most of a zoology minor so I know that the typical hare has eyes set on either side of its head. That, in fact, makes it one of the few animals that can pretty much see 360 degrees. When you're a classically juicy prey animal, it helps to see all over!

He and many other adorably precious babies are blogged regularly on www.zooborns.com

Unfortunately, this little guy is too cute to be real. He's an April Fool's joke; a cute kitten given ears in Photoshop. It says he's from the Iperian Steppes -- which is not a place you can find on Google!