Happy Halloween Kiddies!

I see you.

DVR of Desire

I watched the middle part of Botany Desire on PBS last night. I DVRd it so I can watch the whole thing later. I saw the end of apple/sweetness, all of tulip/beauty and cannabis/intoxication and the beginning of potato/control. What I saw was really good--it seemed to hold true to the book, but it was really nice to see it visually. I also DVRd Harold and Maude!!!! I'm so excited to watch it!

Here is a list and thoughts that I wrote down while I was watching Botany of Desire:

Tulips:
Kazakhstan
What came first? The flower or the bee?
Traveled from Central Asia to Turkey
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire=Tulip freak
Tulip Mania-Dutch Tulip freaks
Semper Augustus caused the mania
The reaction of atmosphere to earth
Minerals to weather build geometric flora?

Cannabis:
Except it
No more wars against it
Use it
Manage it
Examine it

13 35 Cliff Drive

That's where the Evil Dr. Markoff lives. 13 35 Cliff Drive, you say? Yeah that's right, 13 35 Cliff Drive. Someone associated with the 1944 movie The Monster Maker was seriously trying to hammer this address home. 13 35 Cliff Drive. In the fogginess of half pre-sleep dream while watching Boris Karloff in The Ape, the sing-song rhyme of "13 35 Cliff Drive" ran like a loop in my head. 13 35 Cliff Drive. What was I saying? Oh yeah, that's where Dr. Igor Markoff lives. Who's Dr. Markoff? Well, don't you know? He's a doctor that is the upmost authority on glandular diseases, especially one called Acromegaly. Acromegaly, that's right, he keeps a bottle of it in a hidden compartment in his lab on 13 35 Cliff Drive. Acromegaly appears to be an excuse to show off someone's killer make-up skills--pretty good for a low budget, 1940's movie.



Dr. Markoff injects a gifted Pianist with Acromegaly in order to have an upper hand towards nuptial negotiations with the Pianist's daughter. The movie was okay, good prevailed over evil and it kept my attention, which is more than I can say for poor Boris in The Ape, in all fairness, though, that could have had to do with it being late. And that damn incessant 13 35 Cliff Drive roaming through my brain.

I like watching scary movies right before Halloween. So far I've watched; The Manitou, Hot Fuzz, Sleepy Hollow, Dracula and the two mentioned above. I'll probably watch Shaun of the Dead, The Mummy and The Haunting. I think it would be cool to watch Shadow of the Vampire and Nosferatu back to back. I have a 50 Movie Pack of Horror Classics, where The Ape and The Monster Maker came from, so I have plenty of old fashioned horror to keep me feeling spooky. Killer Shrews anyone?

Noted:

Poison Ivy plant dropped its bottom leaves; only a few at the top remain. Fall coloring: Yellow.

Freaky Friday

I came upon "The Amazing Dunninger" while reading about Soupy Sales (R.I.P.) in Wikipedia. Harry Houdini and Thomas A. Edison gave Dunninger secret codes, which were to be used for contact after their death, in order to investigate the possibility of communication with spirits. I'm already in love with him!

On thought reading:

"You pick up a vivid impression from another mind and others follow or suggest themselves. But it isn't mind-reading; it is thought reading. When a series of such thought impressions come in fairly close in succession, it takes on the semblance of mind reading, though if you check back, you may find that you have added links of your own making, just as you might piece together the fragments of a dream to form a waking continuity." --Joseph Dunninger, mentalist


Read about him here.

The First Lady whizzes barefoot through obstacle course

This article made me laugh.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33417821/ns/today-white_house/

Lately...

I'm not feeling very creative at the moment--again--but in order to keep blogging, I give you my life lately in pictures.  I find pleasure in nature--even if it's only as far as my backyard. Slug Circle This has been the summer of leopard slugs. Every time I see them they are having sex. This big ass preying mantis was in my screened porch! Amazing! I love preying mantis. I had a hard time capturing the coolness and size of it--so you will just have to suffer through these crappy photos to get the jist. Me and my crazy hand (and bad hair--I need a haircut already!) with a fan of Pink Star Tulip plant markers Nate and I planted more flower bulbs. We planted: Gipsy Queen Hyacinths (Dark Orange) Mount Tacoma Double Tulips (White) Grueze Tulips (Purple) Rococo Parrot Tulips (Mostly Red) Pink Star Double Tulips (Pink)

I looked up Don Knotts today

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

R.I.P.

The Yeti Anniversary

We thought the first year of marriage was the Yeti Anniversary.

Freaky Friday

image of Boy and His BBQ pig bus

Our team, Bearhand BBQ, entered our first ever BBQ Competition at the American Royal last weekend. We have lots of room for improvement, but we know what we did wrong. However, it was a great experience and I'm feeling good about our potential.

Categories Competed In:

Chicken

Pork

Ribs

Brisket

Beans

Stats forthcoming....

The lovely husband graciously modeling our team sweatshirt.
My strong-wristed, talented littlest sister created our logo.

I'm in love with the campfire "A"! (click on the pic to see)

Please Don't Be Long

please don't you be very long

Know Your Mushrooms!

I just saw this movie and it was great! To those who aren't interested in human history of the altered mind, only a bit of it has to do with hallucinogenic mushrooms. The coolest part was about the idea of a fungal membrane or network that grows throughout the earth's crust and serves as some type of nervous system(!). Mushrooms are also being used for bioremediation! I'm so excited about this movie, I'm thinking of going to the Telluride Mushroom Festival next year!!

By the way, if you are interested in altering your mind, maybe you can go to outer space and find the fireplace near the Andromeda Galaxy.