Endless Ends

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Going through old PMs is like a digging up a time capsule.

Mine has not been a generation to write letters, but I think the PMs chronicling these long-distant friendships must have a similar feel.

Remembering alone is not quite the same. Feelings, thoughts, and perception are narrowed over time. The written missives open the past and everything blossoms anew, sometimes with new insight.

#ramblefortheday

 

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A few of the words in this sentence are words.

Gua Sha. Technically it’s an old Chinese medicine practice use for healing.

I’m referencing it a . . . beauty aid?

It’s become a popular facial tool to improve circulation, drain lymph, etc.. Rather like a good facial massage you can do to yourself.


You don’t have one?


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Oh! That image was much larger than expected.

 

[hotwords229_A]

Guitar pick for your face.

 

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Guitar pick for your face.

So you DO have one.

 

[hotwords229_A]

So you DO have one.

Under absolutely no circumstances will I make a comment about not using guitar picks because I prefer fingering.

 

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Under absolutely no circumstances will I make a comment about not using guitar picks because I prefer fingering.

Ummm....

That was a completely unexpected response.


And these are the times I really miss my pre-site reboot embarrassed emoji.

 

[hotwords229_A]

That was a completely unexpected response.

I know. That’s why I didn’t say it.

 

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I know. That’s why I didn’t say it.

Welp.

I was nonplussed like I haven't been nonplussed for a loooooong time.

Even if you didn't say it.

 

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I was today years old when I found out the iconic noir, The Big Sleep (1946) - Philip Marlowe with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall - has a different romantic slant than the novel.

WHAT?!



I'm not sure I'm going to be okay.

#innocencelost

 

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Still wading through my inbox. Today, listened to a recording of the first several pages of The Adventure of the Speckled Band.

Recorder and recordee (that would be me ) had never quite realized the unintended . . . carnal implications of Victorian verbiage in today's society.

Never have I laughed so hard.

I miss them.

 

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Started back with a weight bearing class today.



Death is imminent.

Omg.

 

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Okay. So I'm only wishing death was imminent.

Or that the farmhouse didn't have staaaaaaaaaairs.

Omg.

 

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Still reading through PMs.

VT aka Vicious Tease aka @justasimplegirl really gave first class advice.

 

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A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martin, first in the Teixcalaan series.

It was recommended by someone’s whose book judgement I really trust. But - it just fails to grab me.

The world building is truly spectacular, possibly the best I’ve ever seen. Such incredible detail. It's won a couple of prestigious awards. The characters are reasonably interesting, but . . . something. They’re too cerebral? Lacking in emotional depth? Or maybe it’s the plot's level of political machinations? Not really my thing.

Idk, but I’m finding my inability to engage aggravating.


I want to like it.

I should like it.

I need to like it.


Why don’t I like it? Why?! *foot stomp*


This is my third time around. This book is making my cra-zy.

 

[hotwords229_A]

^^^This is how I felt trying to read Frankenstein.
I should be totally into it, but I hated every page I read (and I didn’t read that many).
I’ve tried to get through that book on several occasions, but I just can’t stand it.

 

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Milicent Patrick with her original 2-D conceptual designs for "Creature from the Black Lagoon" 1954

Most monster movie fans have believed for decades that the design of the Creature was the work of Bud Westmoore, but that is not the case. The Creature's "gill-man" design actually came off of the pen of artist Milicent Patrick. Although the fetching young illustrator never got her name in the films credits, she was paraded from film screening to film screening in hopes that her model-like good looks would drum up more publicity for the film. Her contribution to the history of monster films has never been fully given the credit that it so deserves. Unfortunately there a far too many such "unknown heroes" in the genre of horror and sci-fi films. The Creature's appearance was based on old seventeenth-century woodcuts of two bizarrcreatures called the Sea Monk and the Sea Bishop. The Creature's final head was based on that of the Sea Monk, but the original discarded head was based on that of the Sea Bishop.​

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Sea Monk & Sea Bishop​

 

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^^^This is how I felt trying to read Frankenstein.
I should be totally into it, but I hated every page I read (and I didn’t read that many).
I’ve tried to get through that book on several occasions, but I just can’t stand it.

I can't remember my take on Frankenstein, but it's been my experience that this is common with older books made into movies. I'm often left wondering who were these far-sighted geniuses able to see past the humdrum and and jump on the potential.

 

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Sea Monk & Sea Bishop​

Milicent Patrick was so pretty it's surprising someone didn't insist she transition to the screen rather than staying behind scenes.

Hotwords has mentioned Bud Westmoore. He seems to have rather made a thing of stealing other people's work. But I don't recall hearing the story of the woodcuts!

Were they woodcuts based on myths? Sightings?

Tell me they were woodcuts based on sightings?

*bounces a little*


I foresee a flurry of google searches in my future. Like, later tonight!

 

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My core workout today was done to a song titled: Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy).




No one else seems to find this awkward.

I, on the other hand?

It's hard to do crunches while you're frozen in place.

 

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*wails*

All the cute kitty videos sent to me via PM have disappeared!

I am inordinately distraught.

 

[Endless_Night]

My core workout today was done to a song titled: Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy).




No one else seems to find this awkward.

I, on the other hand?

It's hard to do crunches while you're frozen in place.

I am also still stuck on this.

And it raises questions.

-Why such a sexual song in a weight class?
-Are there always sexual songs and I just don't notice?
-Will there be more sexual songs?
-Will I now always be on guard during classes?
-What are the odds this is going to affect my workout?



I think this is going to be one of those days.

 

[hotwords229_A]

I am also still stuck on this.

And it raises questions.

-Why such a sexual song in a weight class?
-Are there always sexual songs and I just don't notice?
-Will there be more sexual songs?
-Will I now always be on guard during classes?
-What are the odds this is going to affect my workout?



I think this is going to be one of those days.

If they start playing “Cherry Pie” you may have inadvertently joined a Stripper class.

 

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Dear Lord.

Yep. Definitely going to affect my workout.

 

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*wails*

All the cute kitty videos sent to me via PM have disappeared!

I am inordinately distraught.

Some of these old PMs are tough.

You know what would help?

MY CUTE KITTY VIDEOS

*snarl*