Here Lies 13 Thursday
1. How many beans can you stand to hear scream? Find out HERE.
2. Only in Floyd: This past weekend I danced to the grooves of The Emily Brass Band at the Pine Tavern Floyd Family Jamfest and was caught at the nighttime fire dance intermission show without a decent camera.
3. I recently realized that my getting hooked on late night Sex in the City reruns was partly because I had a crush on Carrie’s boyfriend Aiden, played by John Corbett, which I discovered when his character was written out of the show and my level of commitment to the show dropped. Then, more recently, I discovered that Corbett was a born again Christian Republican and the boyfriend of Bo Derek, and my crush fizzled some. Even more recently, I learned that Corbett is also a pretty decent country singer songwriter, which piqued my interest again.
4. My not ready for primetime bumper sticker that I have on my fridge reads: Born Okay the First Time.
5. The fact that I share Ted Kennedy’s Irish Catholic Massachusetts Democrat background, and that he was being buried next to his two brothers on the anniversary of my brother Danny’s death (the second of my two brothers who died a month apart and were buried together), while tropical storm Danny brought a deluge of rain off the eastern coast, wasn’t lost on me.
6. Around the same time that Ted Kennedy was dying and tropical storm Danny was stirring up, thrivalist Frank Cook, who was in Floyd this past May giving plant talks and walks, died unexpectedly of a parasitic infection. Frank had a Master’s Degree in Holistic Science from Shumaker College, wrote Emerging Planetary Medicines, and was active in the Transition Culture movement, a movement for those preparing for a no-carbon economy. A video clip of his Floyd visit is HERE.
7. Considering that my writer’s bio-note is: “I keep a dictionary in the backseat of my car and a kaleidoscope in my glove compartment. What else do you need to know?” I’m not surprised that people send me cool kaleidoscope sites, like THIS new one.
8. Epitaph found on a tombstone in Georgia “I told you I was sick!”
9. Strangest vanity license plate, spotted once in Blacksburg: IAMHURT.
10. Poet Robert’s Frost’s tombstone epitaph reads, "I had a lover's quarrel with the world.” Charles Bukowski’s says: Don’t Try.
11. Writing a bio is one thing, but an epitaph? What would yours say? I think I’ll use one of THESE.
12. Can you read this? ǝsɹǝʌuı sǝʇıɹʍ ʇǝod spɹɐʍʞɔɐq ɐ
13. And finally, I’ll leave it to my baby grandson Bryce to wave bye-bye HERE.
Say hello to fellow 13 Thursday players HERE.
Comments
#13 he's so big and cute and I have that couch..sk
Posted by: san | September 2, 2009 7:39 PM
A backwards poet writes inverse. How did you do that? Good 13! I like the potential epitaphs.
Posted by: chris | September 2, 2009 9:33 PM
Here's the upside down writing link: http://www.fliptext.org/
I didn't come up with the line "poets write inverse," just found it and liked it. It's anonymous.
I think the last three 16 word memoirs could work as epitaphs for me.
Posted by: colleen | September 2, 2009 9:39 PM
I could only stand 3 screams on the first one and disliked the whole concept??? I loved the last one with Byrce's wave.......Heather waved backwards too!! And the inbetween stuff has not been forgotten and caused a tear xo
Posted by: Sherry | September 2, 2009 9:46 PM
Love, LOVE, LOVE Your bio line.
Your grandson is too cute for words.
Happy T13!
Posted by: Adelle Laudan | September 2, 2009 9:46 PM
I love your bio line too!
Happy TT
Posted by: Journeywoman | September 2, 2009 10:16 PM
I lasted for four irritating screaming beans because I kept thinking something new would happen.
Posted by: colleen | September 2, 2009 10:29 PM
I always enjoy the seemingly randomness of your posts, and love that bumper sticker on your fridge. Yes!
I've posted quotes on writing this week. Hope you'll stop by!
Posted by: Heather | September 3, 2009 12:02 AM
Nothing worse than not having a decent camera when you need one.
Posted by: Alice Audrey | September 3, 2009 12:36 AM
Your grandson is a cutie! I got a good laugh out of the epitaph found on the tombstone. Great list! :-)
Posted by: Dawn's Daily Life | September 3, 2009 1:19 AM
a backwards poet writes inverse :)
Posted by: Hazel | September 3, 2009 5:59 AM
Love #8!! [and I really enjoyed viewing your tea garden bouquet below this post, also.] Bryce is absolutely a doll!!! How sweet is that.
My 13 this week is all about Labor in a funny way. Hope you can stop by to visit with me. Happy Thursday. [PS...you'll need to scroll down below my Thursday Thunks to find my list of 13]
Posted by: Hootin' Anni | September 3, 2009 6:28 AM
Bryce is getting so big... and looks like a duplicate Dylan from the early days!
Mine is about Ozzy (not Osbourne, but Osborn)
Luv u
Posted by: Chrissie | September 3, 2009 6:43 AM
No.8... JUST TOO GOOD!
wow
13 Walt Disney
Posted by: AD | September 3, 2009 8:01 AM
A backward poet writes inverse.
That is such a strange culmination of coincidences regarding your brothers and Ted Kennedy. Sometimes I think I am just a program, or a hologram in somebody else's video game because those types of coincidences and repeats happen to me on a weekly basis.
Happy Thursday!
Posted by: Poe | September 3, 2009 8:45 AM
#5 is creepy - hurricane danny!
Posted by: she | September 3, 2009 9:00 AM
Mom left a comment for you back at my blog about Ozzie / Harriet
Posted by: Chrissie | September 3, 2009 12:20 PM
Epitaph: Though she was but little, she was fierce.
Behold! I bend Shakespeare to my will.
Cool TT. Thank you for getting my brain started this morning.
Posted by: Celticlibrarian | September 3, 2009 2:19 PM
Loved the beans & the kaleidoscope, you always find the coolest sites!
Posted by: becky68 | September 3, 2009 2:27 PM
wow what a lot of links this post was very fun
Posted by: angie | September 3, 2009 3:06 PM
Loved the kaleidoscope link! Thinking on the epitaph...
Posted by: Debbie@Like a Rose | September 3, 2009 3:14 PM
GREAT Stuff, Colleen....Love that Kaliedoscope thingy...I too love Kaliedoscopes and so dies ny dear friend Betty G. There is something about them that is utterly and completely fascinating....!
Bryce looks so grown up! I cannot get over it! Has that much time gone by? I guess so...lol!
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | September 4, 2009 10:44 PM
I feel sorry for all the beans. hehe :)
Posted by: Kikit | September 5, 2009 2:50 AM
I loved Corbet in Northern Exposure. I would've never guessed that about him He seemed so liberal.
Posted by: Deana | September 7, 2009 9:03 PM