05/2/12
Festival People
by Cadence Denton
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Name: Cadence Denton
Email: immaculatavampee@gmail.com
Site: http://cadencedentonblogspot.com
About: Cadence lives in the world of the mundane: With 3 dogs, a house , and one daughter (recently married), she works as the manager of a juniors' boutique. Naturally she writes paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and science fiction - light on the science. Okay, she's a store clerk not a rocket scientist.See Authors Posts (23)
Here in Louisiana, the end of April means one thing: The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Lucky ticket holders can be certain they will be treated to great food, sunny weather (usually), crafts, and stellar entertainment including, but not limited to, the music. That’s right. Festivals mean…drumroll, please… Festival People. You know the ones, folks who march to a different drummer, who embrace an inner need to shine. They are the ones standing out in the crowd, that grab everyone’s attention particularly in the mile long line of celebrants waiting their turn in the odiferous Port ‘o Johns.
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04/25/12
Romancing the Pork
by DT Tarkus
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Name: DT Tarkus
Email: dttarkus@gmail.com
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About: Dan wrote humor articles for an expatriate magazine while living in Asia. Now he’s trapped in the man cave with a muse who just won’t leave him alone, surrounded by fellow writers who routinely challenge his testosterone levels. He’s currently writing young adult fantasy because he never grew up.See Authors Posts (20)
Now that I have your attention …
It’s wacky Wednesday and nothing comes wackier than chocolate covered bacon. I consider myself an affectionado of a food item that along with flour, beans and brown sugar, kept people alive when they wagon-ho’d to the Wild West. You could say our country was founded on bacon. It’s a national treasure, like the bald eagle.
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04/18/12
People are like chocolate
by Elizabeth Kelley
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Name: Elizabeth Kelley
Email: iamgrevi@comcast.net
Site: http://www.elizabethkelleybooks.com
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Last week, a friend and I were talking about body shapes—the pear, the apple, the banana—and diets. All that diet and calorie cutting chatter naturally led me to think about chocolate. Not a practical leap—maybe a little ADD—but it did get me thinking about the different types of chocolate.
Like the multitude of people in the world, chocolate comes in all shapes, sizes, and colors.
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04/11/12
Wacky Wednesday – Gardens Gone Wild
by Alix Rickloff
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Name: Alix Rickloff
Email: alix@alixrickloff.com
Site: http://www.alixrickloff.com
About: ALIX RICKLOFF has never been able to decide who she enjoys reading more; Austen or Tolkien. That lifelong indecision drove her to create stories of her own, combining those distinct loves. Her writing awards include a final in the Golden Heart, while Romantic Times Magazine calls her work both compelling and original.See Authors Posts (36)
Grace Burrowes started us off this week with an ode to the beauty of a spring garden and the joy one might find toiling in the dirt. She talked of the enticing fragrances and the colorful blooms, the peaceful oasis and the pleasure given to those who viewed the fruits of her labor. But since it’s Wacky Wednesday, I decided to offer you a glimpse of the goofier side of gardening.
Not sure how they got the car in the tree, but it reminds me of the State Farm commercial. “Jerry, is that you?”
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04/4/12
A Fishy Wednesday
by Hope Ramsay
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Name: Hope Ramsay
Email: robin@hoperamsay.com
Site: http://www.hoperamsay.com
About: Hope Ramsay was born in New York and grew up on the North Shore of Long Island, but every summer Momma would pack her off under the care of Aunt Annie to go visiting with relatives in the midlands of South Carolina. Her extended family includes its share of colorful aunts and uncles, as well as cousins by the dozens, who provide the fodder for the characters you'll find in Last Chance, South Carolina. Hope earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Buffalo, and has had various jobs working as a Congressional aide, a lobbyist, a public relations consultant, and a meeting planner. She's a two-time finalist in the Golden Heart, and is married to a good ol' Georgia boy who resembles every single one of her heroes. She has two grown children and a couple of demanding lap cats. She lives in Fairfax, Virginia where you can often find her on the back deck, picking on her thirty-five-year-old Martin guitar.See Authors Posts (39)
As ya’ll know I live with a fisherman. He’s kind of cute. He’s got a deep voice, a sexy beard, and more fishing tackle than a dog has fleas.
Living with a fisherman has benes. He can bring home supper. You can send him out to fish for hours at a time while you sneak off to go shopping or visit with girl friends. In the coming apocalypse I figure we’ve got enough fishing line and hooks that we could probably go into the black market. Read the rest of this entry »
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03/21/12
Future Wackiness
by Marlo Berliner
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Name: Marlo Berliner
Email: mberliner@rcn.com
Site: http://marloberliner.com
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Since this is a Wacky Wednesday post, I decided I’d share some weird and wacky news I came across the other day. Have you ever wondered what the future might look like in 2050? One company is doing just that.
Frog is a global design and innovation firm in San Francisco. They helped shape the original Mac computers and many of the most popular gadgets we use today. They are also the brains behind five new technologies that we may see in the relatively near future. Hold onto your shorties, here’s where it starts getting weird.
The Digital Urn
Young people today are used to social technology like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. But what about the aging, senior population? If they wanted to memorialize themselves for all posterity before they departed, how would they? Frog has the answer, the digital urn.
The two-part system would involve an ear clip that collects and stores brain activity as audio and video. In other words, the ear piece would collect memories. This immediately reminded me of the pensieve from Harry Potter. Once the memories were collected, they would then be put in a small digital urn the size of a locket that you could give to a loved one to wear around their neck. It would be your way of making a statement about your life and literally preserving some of your most valuable life experiences. Read the rest of this entry »
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03/14/12
Phenomenon Schmomenon
by Livia Quinn
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Name: Livia Quinn
Email: liviaquinnwrites@gmail.com
Site: http://www.liviaquinn.com
About: Livia left the wild city life of D.C. for a different kind of 'wild'life on the Louisiana bayou where she writes about magical, passionate, unseen worlds, and love that knows no boundaries. "Stories should have all the drama of real life without the bad endings, because we need to believe in possibilities and happy endings."See Authors Posts (38)
Phenomenon - a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, esp. one whose cause or explanation is in question; a remarkable person, thing, or event.
Whether it’s a phenomenon in your own backyard or a worldwide event, the odd, unexplainable, and seriously absurd continue to amaze and entertain us. Spiderman, Ax Men, Swamp Men – one thing these phenonmenon have in common is exaggeration. Filmed just south of here, Swamp Men was a fascination for friends in Maryland at Christmas, and a joke to our local fishermen last weekend.
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03/7/12
Wacky Wednesday – A Blog Recco!
by Alix RickloffcloseAuthor: Alix Rickloff
Name: Alix Rickloff
Email: alix@alixrickloff.com
Site: http://www.alixrickloff.com
About: ALIX RICKLOFF has never been able to decide who she enjoys reading more; Austen or Tolkien. That lifelong indecision drove her to create stories of her own, combining those distinct loves. Her writing awards include a final in the Golden Heart, while Romantic Times Magazine calls her work both compelling and original.See Authors Posts (36)
OK, while today’s post fits my definition of wacky, it is a slight cop-out. I mean, I knew my day was coming and I knew I had to come up with something pithy and worthwhile to say, but when the ideas ain’t there . . . So my blog today is about (drum roll please) another blog… Read the rest of this entry »
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02/29/12
Three Dimensional Senses
by DT TarkuscloseAuthor: DT Tarkus
Name: DT Tarkus
Email: dttarkus@gmail.com
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About: Dan wrote humor articles for an expatriate magazine while living in Asia. Now he’s trapped in the man cave with a muse who just won’t leave him alone, surrounded by fellow writers who routinely challenge his testosterone levels. He’s currently writing young adult fantasy because he never grew up.See Authors Posts (20)
A couple of popular artists, Julian Beever and Kurt Wenner, made their global mark by creating three dimensional pictures on sidewalks. Despite our intelligence knowing it is only a two dimensional slab of concrete, our eyes convince us it is three dimensional. Okay, I get it now. Writing 101, have to use the five senses for a three dimensional scene.
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02/15/12
Hand Me the Rose-Colored Glasses
by Cadence DentoncloseAuthor: Cadence Denton
Name: Cadence Denton
Email: immaculatavampee@gmail.com
Site: http://cadencedentonblogspot.com
About: Cadence lives in the world of the mundane: With 3 dogs, a house , and one daughter (recently married), she works as the manager of a juniors' boutique. Naturally she writes paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and science fiction - light on the science. Okay, she's a store clerk not a rocket scientist.See Authors Posts (23)
Rose-colored glasses: noun.
A cheerful or optimistic view of things, usually without valid basis.
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