Today’s theme: “Stones”
New video! Me talking “first novel horror stories” at Ligonier library.
This week’s blog post …
“The sinister innocence of the nipple,”
One of the most brutal situations a public speaker must endure is to persevere through his or her presentation when he or she knows they’ve lost the audience. Last week I felt the air rush out of the room and the audience turn when I raised a topic that crossed a line. One just below the neck. Yes, I went for the nipple.
• Zeitgust Word of the Week (a word I made up with the goal of getting it into an actual dictionary) …
Corrral: A rocky ocean enclosure used to house seahorses. Derived from coral, a rocky ocean formation; and corral, an enclosure used to pen ponies.
Stones
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• Colorful Conversation Starter: Tell people that in 1968 when The Rolling Stones released “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” gas, gas, gas was 33 cents a gallon, gallon, gallon.
• Become a devotee of one super group — The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. It’ll ensure you’ll be able to find some common ground with anyone with whom you get stuck in an elevator.
• Stones classic #ExileOnMainStreet turns 43 this year. Time to change iconic song title to "Shake Your Replaced Hips.
• I believe in the next six months, the combined age of the Rolling Stones (247 years) will finally exceed their combined weight.
• The wave of vast emptiness I felt realizing that Mick is 72 and will one day die eased somewhat with realization Keith never will.
• I’d like to see a rock game show with Mick & Bruce that asks, "Who can say, 'Are you ready to rock?'" in most foreign languages.
• Reason Mick Jagger sometimes seems bitchy is because while he's one of the 10 coolest people on the planet, he's only 3rd coolest Stone.
Randoms …
• Many writers are on shoe-string budgets. Me, I can't afford shoes with strings. I guess that means I'm on a flip flop budget.
• Maybe I'm superstitious, but I only buy things like thyme, basil and sage from farmers named Herb.
• The idea of being a lab rat must seem so prestigious to rats so it must be a cruel disappointment when they learn what it involves.
• Asked 9 year old if she knew difference between carpenter bees and regular bees. Told her carpenter bees are the ones with the tiny tool belts.
• Author’s note …
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