Brain Flotsam V2.007

1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.

2. Go to Google Images and search for that word.

3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).

(The html for images is here.)

<img src="IMAGE URL" />

4. Put this in your own journal so that I can do the same.

Mutant Chicken and more art cars from this year's Art Car Parade in Houston at my Art Car Parade photoset.

Mom and I decided at the last minute to go, and we found parking in a really cute older neighborhood where we chatted with some residents when we parked and then when we returned. It was a relatively short event, only an hour and a half or so for all 270-odd cars to drive by.

Some cars were kind of lame, some were hilarious, some were gorgeous, and some were amazing like this chicken towering over the crowd. There was lots of live music courtesy of bands on trailers or cars, and so many roller-skaters, skateboarders, and fantastic bikers.

Fun times all around, really, and a great way to spend an afternoon.

Ok, I still haven't finished labeling and deleting in the trip set, but I had to post this because DUDE, Brains.

ganked from red_day_dawning

1. List the first line(s) of 10 books you really like.
2. And then your friends all can guess the book.
3. Post your opinion of the book when someone guessed it.

1. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis(guessed by red_day_dawning) This may in fact be my favorite first line ever. It was the only one on this list that I had memorized. Also, unsurprisingly, this is my favorite of the Chronicles of Narnia, at least up until the episode at the very end when Lucy and Edmund and Eustace are sent back home. That was just a bit too heavy-handed. But the rest is lyrical and fun and fantastical. And Reepicheep! Yay!

2. It was a hot, steamy summer, and the mosquitoes swarmed everywhere, from their breeding grounds in the rotten, reedy shores of the Red Lake up to the foothills of Mount Abed.

3. Hands on hips, brows lowering, Emerson stood gazing fixedly at the recumbent ruminant.

4. She scowled at her glass of orange juice.

5. Locked in darkness that surrounded me like a coffin, I had nothing to distract me from my memories.

6.Gently. Elfrid let the held breath out slowly as the third sphere took solidity and hung with the other two - iridescent, luminous - in the shadow of the minstrel's gallery.

7. The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (guessed by red_day_dawning) If you haven't read the book, do so. It is profound and lovely and so much more than a fairy tale.

8. Juniper was different from us.

9. A pale horse seen a mile away at sunrise means the night is over.

10. What the celebration at the castle had been, Austin Grey never discovered.

And I am adding special bonus #11 because, why not? (I may get some argument about what constitutes a "first line" in this case.)

11. A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

I just sat around and made up a genre of music/subculture called Magepunk, and four sub-subcultures thereof.
Each of them with its own little traditions and distinctive fashion choices.
I make notes here so I can go back and refer to them later. Feel free to adopt or borrow any of these.  ;) It's all open source, yo.

( there is a nice padded room waiting for me... )

The men in the white truck are coming, but I am pleading creativity. dianamoon said I could!

Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes:

Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.

I will even learn to play backgammon. I'll learn to lose at backgammon, in fact. (If you don't get it, take the questionnaire.)

And of course the million-dollar question: Can we get the algae to taste like cheese?

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What does it say about me that in the course of writing these fics featuring Luna I have had to research such exciting and bizarre locations as Egypt, Patagonia, Ethiopia, Mongolia, and Madagascar?  Girl gets around. (Ok, Harry and Ron were the ones in Ethiopia. Still.)
Anyhow, hooray for Luna in a yurt.
Ahem.
Right, back to writing...

p.s. I Gchat as zephrene.  Look me up.

In addition to being Queen of the Universe (pending) due to Total Eclipse of the Heart Moon on my birthday, I get fun times with Harry Potter Astrology:

( Slytherin in Pisces )
I think something that the writer is missing here, too, is that Pisces are flexible. That "lack of backbone" and "adaptability" combine to form very tolerant, largely amiable, occasionally fickle folk who are able to slip into many disparate situations and get along. This is a trait that a Slytherin can use to advantage, allowing the normally spacey aspects of Pisces to get a nice grounding in practical networking and alliance-building. These people may not be "leaders" in the loudest and proudest sense, but they often lead from the back, using the webs they've built to quietly influence the course of events. They hint at this in the second-to-last sentence, but let's be real here.

Also, some Pisces (ahem) seriously don't mind tooting their own horn. We might be content to go unnoticed, but I think especially a Slytherin Pisces will have a deep and abiding need for recognition, and may go a bit overboard with the emotional response to said recognition when it comes.

I have to say that I am very grateful for my Ascendant Leo, giving me some backbone and boldness, even if it took me years to learn how to stand up.

Rock-n-roll zombie aliens! Total World Domination! Imminent Prophecy-Making!
There is a total lunar eclipse on my birthday! (And birthday twins rosmar and musical_jay and leela_cat!)  Triangulated with bright Saturn and Regulus! Great things are in store!

NASA - Total Lunar Eclipse: February 20, 2008:

During the eclipse, the Moon will be in Leo. Saturn and bright star Regulus are only 3 degrees east and west, respectively, of the Moon. Geminii, Orion, Taurus and other winter constellations will occupy the south and western sky for North American eclipse watchers.

Ok, my hand really hurts, but I did uppuN's Harry Potter Fan Art Meme.



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Vassar's Quidditch Team prepares for the World Cup at Middlebury:



(Since I can't figure out embedded video on IJ, this is the link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jew6EyNvBfI)

I am reminded of that fine, fine Vassar Fight Song:

Stout, Lager, Ale!
Beer, Beer, Beer!
Goooooooo Brewers!

Because somebody was definitely drunk when they thought this up.

Most boots are made for walkin'. Zephre's boots ain't that merciful.


Zephre's pulse is measured on the richter scale.


Zephre once rode a nine foot grizzly bear through an automatic car wash, instead of taking a shower.


When Zephre goes to out to eat, she orders a whole chicken, but she only eats its soul.


Once a cobra bit Zephre's leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.


Zephre can taste lies.

Staring at Zephre for extended periods of time without proper eye protection will cause blindess, and possibly foot sized bruises on the face.


Lightning never strikes twice in one place because Zephre is looking for it.


If you can see Zephre, she can see you. If you can't see Zephre you may be only seconds away from death.


In ancient China there is a legend that one day a child will be born from a dragon, grow to be a woman, and vanquish evil from the land. That woman is not Zephre, because Zephre killed that woman.

Get your own.

Well, I signed up again this year, and since the Author Search is turned off at the moment, here is a link to my profile if anybody wants to add me as a Writing Buddy on the site:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/1699

Leave a comment to let me know, or with your own link.