Halloween has NOT been canceled.
Woo hoo!!!!
Self got trick or treaters.
A miracle. Good thing she found time to dash to Target for candy this morning. And do kids looooove Butterfingers!
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
Lens Artists Challenge # 117: A Photo Walk (with Follow-Up Walk The Next Day)
October 13, 2020 at 3:58 am (Holidays, Links, postaday)
Tags: Halloween, Mondays
You are invited to share your photo walk, whether park, beach or street. As always, we are looking forward to seeing your creative responses. — The World Is a Book
Self’s walk: just down the block.
Self knows, this is not much of a walk. And she wishes she could have taken more pictures. But even taking these three were hard. At one house, she heard a kid say, “Mommy, why is that woman taking pictures of our house?” She skedaddled!
This neighborhood is BIG on Halloween decorations, self will try taking pictures of the more elaborately decorated houses tomorrow.
Pumpkin Fest This Weekend!
October 9, 2020 at 12:41 pm (Artists and Writers, Holidays, Recommended)
Tags: Fridays, Halloween
If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area:
Soni & David’s Mini Pumpkin Fest 2020
Saturday/Sunday, Oct. 10/11
Time: 12 – 4 p.m.
Location: 716 Gilbert Avenue (David’s Free Library)
Fun festive gifts for Halloween and Holiday Season
Bring Your Mask. Social Distancing is Good. Hand Sanitizer Will Be Available.
15% will be donated to Sierra Club for climate change.
For more information: soni@sonidesigns.com
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Have a wonderful weekend!
Transmogrification, Other
October 31, 2016 at 8:03 pm (Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: Berlin, Halloween, Paris, photography, postaday, postaweek, websites, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge:
Transmogrify means: to transform, change, morph
Posts from other bloggers:
- from Letting Nature Back In: frog’s eggs morphing into tadpoles
- from Zimmerbitch: memories of Halloweens past
- from Ain’t Mine No More: Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate transmogrified into the Sistine Chapel
- from Curls n Skirls: Halloween costume ideas from a consignment store
- from Beyond the Window Box: ripples on water, seen from a hotel boat
- from JS Network: for “These Streets”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
#ThisIsWicked
October 30, 2016 at 2:28 am (Fan Fiction, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Everlark, Halloween, Peeta, San Francisco, Saturday, supernatural
Self thinks her most important current relationship is with her beta.
That is, she sort of thinks she’s found a beta, though the beta has four other WIPs of her own to get through, not to mention she has a very young kid at home. Not to mention she’s writing two Halloween-related drabbles. Not to mention she’s writing a sequel to the sexiest Vampire Peeta fan fic of all time!
Self just found out her beta lives in a completely different time zone: she’s three hours ahead of self.
It’s really useful to have a beta, because a beta is the best sounding board. The best.
When you’re writing fan fic, your story becomes 10x better if you have a beta.
When her beta doesn’t answer self’s messages, she feels bereft.
Which leads self to:
Last night, some young women in the apartment across the way were screeching and laughing raucously. Self had to wonder how girls could have that much fun, just talking. Then, at around 2 a.m., she heard something heavy land against a window. Probably thrown from an adjacent building. Nothing broke, but suddenly all sound stopped, just like that. And didn’t resume. Well, that was very efficient.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
SHINE 2: Night in the City
October 22, 2016 at 5:38 am (Artists and Writers, Links, Movies, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: bargains, discoveries, Events, Filipino movies, Fridays, Halloween, Pampanga, postaday, postaweek, praise, San Francisco, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is SHINE.
Which is why self took her camera along when she caught a FACINE (Filipino Arts & Cinema International) 23 film screening at the Little Roxie on 16th St.
Halloween Already! San Francisco goes all out!
Heading to the Little Roxie on 16th St.
The film, Ari: My Life With a King, was sweet and gentle and lovely. Rooted in place.
Great script, great editing. By a first-time filmmaker, too. Remember his name: Carlo Enciso Catu.
Self would like to give a shout-out to Mauro Feria Tumbocon, Jr. for nurturing this festival, now in its 23rd year.
The Festival’s last day is tomorrow. Tickets for individual films are $10.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Undead Peeta (Halloween Everlark Fan Fic Spill-over)
November 1, 2015 at 5:50 pm (Conversations, Fan Fiction, Sundays)
Tags: Everlark, fan fiction, Halloween, Katniss, Peeta, Sundays, The Hunger Games, travel
Apologies, dear blog readers. Self’s brain is all scrambled. What with seeing the Arno River for the first time today and wondering which Hemingway story had this river as a prominent setting (or which World War II battle unfolded here) and trying to read up on all the Halloween Everlark fan fic that came bursting out of the creative geniuses of Miss Honeywell, Alliswell, and the like, in the past week, self is quite beside herself.
So, let’s focus for now on Undead Peeta. Florence can wait for another post.
Delly, effervescent BFF of Peeta’s Previous Incarnation (Baker Boy) has encountered the Undead Peeta stalking into town for the first time and goes running up to him, gamely offering her neck.
Peeta picks her up in his arms but — uh, oh! — catches sight of Katniss and faster than you can say, Boo! dumps Delly gracelessly on her bottom and makes for Katniss. But when he reaches her, instead of immediately snacking on her neck, he tells her:
“You shouldn’t be here talking to me. I’m dangerous, a monster. I could do terrible things to you.”
“Is that what you were going to do to Delly?” is the first thing out of Katniss’s mouth.
Peeta shakes his head violently.
“Delly would have been just a meal. You, on the other hand . . . “
DUN DUN DUN!
After this magnanimous Undead Peeta speech, Katniss still has time to grab at his arm and notice it is still full of muscle and quite alluring.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Halloween-Themed Everlark! Miss Honeywell: “First We Feast”
October 30, 2015 at 3:49 pm (Conversations, Fan Fiction)
Tags: Everlark, fan fiction, Fridays, Halloween, horror, Katniss, Peeta
Gale, Madge (Gale’s pregnant wife) and Katniss are off on a quest to find District Twelve, a mysterious place that doesn’t appear on any map. They are there because Katniss wants to scatter her parents’ ashes at the place where they were married: Twelve Souls Chapel, 508 Nightlock Road, District Twelve. Scouring the internet for information, Katniss learns that there is a very good roadside diner in Twelve, famous for its “delicious baked pastries” LOL!
Along the way, they pass an eerily deserted landscape, with only one gas station for miles and miles. Faster than one can say Holy Texas Chainsaw Massacre, an attendant appears, whose name just happens to be Haymitch. He makes various dolorous pronouncements (Such as: “Careful touching the merchandise, you might get tetanus.”). The very last thing he says to the trio is: STAY ALIVE.
Back in the car, the following conversation ensues:
Katniss: Have you seen a single police station or car in the entire time we’ve been on this trip?
Gale (stubborn, per usual): 911 exists for a reason.
Katniss (mimicking a caller): Hello, 911? There was a grumpy old man at a gas station that hurt my feelings.
As dear blog readers well know, everyone in fan fiction has an alias. But they are very real people, of course. One happens to live right in Hoboken, New Jersey. How does self know? Because Katniss Everdeen, Demonhunter, is set in Hoboken, New Jersey, LOL!
And after reading First We Feast, self knows for a fact that Miss Honeywell is English. How does self know this? Because only an English writer would have a sentence like this: “Sussing out where exactly the township of District Twelve was located hadn’t been easy.”
Self needs to warn dear blog readers that this is a very cheesy story, with double intendrés sprinkled all over the text like white on rice (Exhibit A: Peeta to Katniss, Do you want me to help you fill up. Actually he said something else, but self cannot for the life of her quote the actual line without cracking up)
And just as Katniss and Peeta (who met only minutes earlier, in the aforementioned diner with everyone’s favorite baker the sole occupant) kiss, they suddenly hear:
MEOW! MEOW! MEOW!
Then Katniss makes the very dumb decision to go with the stranger into the woods but, hey, what can self say, this is Peeta we’re talking about here!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Extra(ordinary): San Francisco, October 2015
October 22, 2015 at 4:07 pm (Holidays, postaday)
Tags: desserts, Halloween, nostalgia, photography, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
Love the prompt this week: (Extra)ordinary, finding meaning in the ordinary.
Last week, self was in San Francisco. Only two more weeks till Halloween! Hence Halloween decorations in the laundromat she uses and an ice cream store, Xanath, on Valencia Street in the city:
Monday Afternoon at the Laundromat (2nd to Last Monday in October 2015)
Love the black cat above the white washing machines!
Of course, no trip anywhere would be complete without a visit to an ice cream store! Here’s Xanath on Valencia Street:
Xanath, an Organic Fro-Yo and Ice Cream Place on Valencia Street. Sampled their wares during the Oct. 17 Litcrawl.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Descent: WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
November 1, 2014 at 3:21 am (Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: artists residency, Bacolod, Fridays, Halloween, Ireland, memories, Paris, postaday, postaweek, The Philippines, travel, Tyrone Guthrie Center, Wordpress
This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is DESCENT — “A perspective looking down, from the top . . . ”
For her first attempt at interpreting DESCENT, self focuses on the obvious: stairs and ladders.
Cottage # 4, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, County Monaghan, Ireland: May 2014
Montmartre, July 2012: Steps to Sacre Couer
Loft Apartment, Bacolod City, the Philippines
Three different places, separated by oceans: Annaghmakerrig, Ireland; Paris; and Bacolod.
Stay tuned.
