Category Archives: Science Fiction & Fantasy
My Mrs. Weasley Clock.
My own “Weasley Clock” with my family at their various locations.
Today I feel the passage of time. We have just under three more weeks in our first beloved house before we move to our new one. This place has many, many memories: so many Halloween parties, holiday dinners, movie marathons, and other get-togethers here. Our daughters were both brought home from the hospital here. We lost one sweet family kitty here, gained a family of three new ones, and our dogs have staked out the perimeter of the yard for their own personal border patrol.
But it’s good to remember that a home is not a house. A home is where your family is, where your heart is. It will be oh-so-good to be with my husband again full time; he’s been living at the new place and away from us during the work week for several months now.
This is a photo of our awesome grandfather clock that I decorated for our Harry Potter Halloween party a couple of years ago. Yes, this clock is going with us to our new home.
~Thanks!
Foggy memories.
Hiking Pilot Mountain in the fog, Fall 2011
For my fellow writers: Let this beautiful and slightly eerie picture inspire you for today. I know it inspires me. I’m sitting on my porch in the the warm sunlight, fighting off the 500% humidity, thinking cool misty thoughts. This is an inspirational fantasy landscape. Don’t you agree?
~Thanks!
What makes me squee.
I’ve noticed that the word “squee” is all the rage on Twitter now. (Or perhaps I’m already behind, and it’s no longer the rage, and I’m terribly out of vogue to even talk about squee . . . regardless . . . )
Definition of SQUEE: The cry of the overexcited fan girl. (My addition: Fan “girl” can also be a fan “boy,” but is still called a fan girl because the people who came up with the term “fan girl” are sexist.)
So what makes Rebecca Of Tomorrow squee, you ask? Well, I like to group my squeedom into four separate squeeheadings.
#1: New books coming out by authors I love
From the Charlaine Harris official website: http://www.charlaineharris.com/
For example, the FINAL Sookie Stackhouse installment by the fabulous Charlaine Harris: Dead Ever After (May 7,2013). In this instance, my squee is a bit bittersweet because this beautiful and amazing series is ending, however.
#2: Movies coming out with actors I love OR in a series I love (or both)
From the official Star Trek Into Darkness website: http://www.startrekmovie.com/
For example: Star Trek Into Darkness, releases May 17, 2013. Not going to lie, I’m a huge, no-holds-barred Star Trek fan. I’m a fan of the original series and all of its progeny, and all of the movies, and most of the books. Plus, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH is in this one, and there appears to be a whole lot of people jumping off of really high places — so what’s not to squee about?
#3: New television episodes coming out with actors I love OR in a series I love (or again, both)
From the Sherlockology website: http://www.sherlockology.com/news/2013/3/11/read-through-roundup-110313
For example: Thank goodness BBC is finally getting around to filming Sherlock: Season 3! I mean, COME ON! You simply cannot leave Sherlock dead. You. Just. Can’t. (Chill: I didn’t spoil it for those of you who haven’t watched Season 2. Anyone who knows anything about Sherlock Holmes knows he “dies” at Reichenbach….and comes back.)
Oh, and lookie there! That’s BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH again. (Yes, I kinda squee every time I see a picture of him.)
#4: Awesome things that happen to me
Check it out on Kiersi’s website: http://typewriterstories.tumblr.com/post/45070282204/rebecca-and-the-girl-scout-cookies
For example: My writer friend, the exquisitely talented Kiersi Burkhart, wrote and mailed me my very own personalized typewriter story, called “Rebecca and the Girl Scout Cookies.” I squeed when I got it out of the mail on Saturday, and my family thought I had gone a bit loopy. But it was even better than ACTUAL Girl Scout Cookies – just sayin’.
So, on this Monday-after-daylight-savings-time-makes-you-really-sad-about-losing-an-hour-of-sleep-over-the-weekend, look for the things in life that will make YOU squee.
Thanks!
Ideas Wanted!
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Cement Shoes. -
Would you shop in a store called Cement Shoes? Maybe…. -
What service does the store provide? -
Karma Kafe -
“Re-prize-all Used Toy Store”. Where all toys are a prize to be re used. -
I didn’t read your post correctly. I thought you said it was a toy store.
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never-the-less, I like reprisal
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outwardly it sells one-of-a-kind items, but it’s really a Twilight-Zone kinda store that dishes out what people deserve – for good or bad.
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IforNI, Something Karma
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Karma Kitch
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Does the winner get royalties?
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or an honorable mention on the acknowledgment page????
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Retailiation. No? -
Okay, if it gives out good as well as bad… The Winnowing Fork.
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you might check anagram web sites to for some of these words. Or mythological sites. -
Dang it! I was just typing “Retailiation.” Great minds and all that. -
Too funny! Great minds, indeed.
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If it’s an ice cream shop… “A Dish Best Served Cold.”
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The Sauce and Gander. Although that sounds like a pub. -
Teak Jar Music. Anagram of justice and karma
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Themis Retail Tea. Or Old Bailey’s Retail Tea.
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I4NI -
Comuppins
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U Hadit Comin
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In Greek mythology, judges were called “servants of Themis” or themistopóloi. Using “themistopoloi” at Wordsmith, you get this list:
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Reciprocity. Strangely I just took a Stanford course at work this week called “managing without authority” and reciprocity is one tool to use! -
You Asked for It.
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You guys ALL rock. I’ll let you know what I go with soon. And the Moirae are going to play a big part in this store.
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And thanks so much for the Chicago earworm. “He had it comin’….He had it comin’….”
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That was sort of the idea.
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Ack, get it out of my ears!!!
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I like his suggestion. It works for the one-of-a-kind-items shop as well as for the actual purpose of the shop. You Asked For It seems like the perfect name. And, btw, I LOVE the Cell Block Tango. -
If it is a fabric store it could be Reap what You Sewed
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Keep ‘em comin’…you’re on a roll, sir.
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“Eye for an Eye” or “Serve the Same Sauce” -
Ooh, I’ve never heard of the “serve the same sauce” expression before.
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Or it could just be “The Same Sauce”….
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Thai Restaurant.
Pai Bach Sab Ich -
That took me a moment. Geesh!
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Tee hee
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It’s a bit of a stretch but you could do Zeke’s 25/17. Referencing Ezekiel 25:17 better known from the Sam Jackson’s speech from pulp fiction
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Lemme go look it up….
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Oh, wow. That’s heavy. But I really like the Bible verse idea. There’s a religious element in the story and the store, actually.
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I’m also thinking of R&P….which stands for “rewards and punishments” but could be an innocent-sounding name of a store on any main street in America.
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Not Your Girl Next Door……. -
Oh a dessert shop. Karmeringue
Who left the AUGURY out of INAUGURATION?
I love words. I really do. I’ve actually considered going back to graduate school (again?) just to learn more about etymology. I was always a wiz-bang student when it came to suffixes/prefixes & roots.
Inauguration
So for some reason today, I was amused but also disheartened to see this little feature on Yahoo, in regards to today’s inauguration: People Can’t Spell the Word “Inauguration.”
Hmm. Things don’t look good.
AND I started to think about the word “inauguration,” and wondered if people had any idea what its root word even means: augury, which, strangely, is the art of predicting the future by means of interpreting animal entrails. NO LIE. The word augury is much prettier when defined at Dictionary.com = divination, omen, token, indication. Dictionary.com goes on to say that the history of the word is French, and means “divination from the flight of birds . . . soothsaying, sorcery, enchantment.”
It just might be the apocalypse, after all.
An election where I just can’t side with either candidate . . .
Random House and Penguin merge and DON’T call themselves “Random Penguin” despite the awesomeness of such a name . . .
A Frankenstorm hits the entire eastern seaboard . . .
And now, Mickey Mouse becomes a Jedi knight? . . .
The Mayan Apocalypse might JUST be coming, after all.
~Thanks!
“It’s alive!”
“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.”
It’s October, and to celebrate in literary fashion, and to honor all things Gothic, this month I’m quoting from some of my all-time favorite apropos-of-Halloween books, stories, and poems.
This week’s feature: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818, Bantam Classic Reissue, 1991.
~Thanks!
Of unhallowed graves and charnel houses.
“Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay? . . . I collected bones from charnel houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame. In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment. The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion” (39).
It’s October, and to celebrate in literary fashion, and to honor all things Gothic, this month I’m quoting from some of my all-time favorite apropos-of-Halloween books, stories, and poems.
This week’s feature: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818, Bantam Classic Reissue, 1991.
~Thanks!
“To seek one who fled from me”
I would so love to see Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller as Dr. Frankenstein and the monster. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/8343655/Frankenstein-in-pictures.html?image=8
“Good God! Margaret, if you had seen the man . . . your surprise would have been boundless. His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. I never saw a man in so wretched a condition . . .Once, however, the lieutenant asked why he had come so far upon the ice in so strange a vehicle.
His countenance instantly assumed an aspect of the deepest gloom, and he replied, ‘To seek one who fled from me’”(10-11).
It’s October, and to celebrate in literary fashion, and to honor all things Gothic, this month I’m quoting from some of my all-time favorite apropos-of-Halloween books, stories, and poems.
This week’s feature: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818, Bantam Classic Reissue, 1991
~Thanks!
