#newyorker magazine caption contest #360

So, like last time, you can put your caption here as a comment.  But better yet is to click on the picture, go to the New Yorker magazine website, and enter your caption in their contest. “It’s asking me for a password.” ______________________________ Now get on with your creative bad self and come up with a caption.…

Oscar Oscar Oscar

Chestnuts are roasting, hot chocolate is steaming, turkey is basting, pumpkin pie is pumping, and stockings are – um – stocking?  Anyway, all that means only one thing.  It’s Oscar season.  This is the home stretch, when the studios roll out their big-ticket films to keep their stars, films, and sugar plums dancing in the…

#fridayfictioneers via rochelle – 11/30

  Every Wednesday Rickenbacker Wisoff-Fields posts a picture prompt to challenge writers to create a 100-word story or poem or anything that works for you.  Then post your work on your blog.  additionally, on friday, you go back to her site and post a link to your blog entry in the comments on her Friday Fictioneers post. I’m going to…

#newyorker magazine caption contest #358

So, like last time, you can put your caption here as a comment.  But better yet is to click on the picture, go to the New Yorker magazine website, and enter your caption in their contest.   “Okay, Doc.  Where would I like it?” Now get on with your creative bad self and come up with a…

The Great Movie Post – Finalé (6/6) Guilty Pleasures

This is for the movies I’ve loved that juuuust don’t seem to fit into the regular categories, and with good reason.  They’re not right.  They’re a little – off.  They got issues.  And they rock.  Feel free to list YOUR guilty pleasures in the comments. ______________________  Bad Santa  – 2003 Directed by Terry Zwigoff Written…

Life of Pi

If you haven’t read the book Life of Pi by Yann Martel, you need to be aware of a few things before seeing the movie.  Although the previews make it seem like an adventure movie about a teenage boy stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, there’s a great deal more to it than…

Happy Black Friday – Buy Me Something Good

(Reposted – because you never read it the first time.. I once believed that giving a gift card for a particular retail store was stupid because it was like giving someone cash and attaching a note that says, “Oh, by the way, you can only spend this cash in one specific store.  Enjoy!”  In that…

#fridayfictioneers via rochelle – 11/23

I know it’s early, but I don’t know how much computer time I’ll have over the next couple of days, so forgive the early posting.  Seems I’m not the only one though. Every Wednesday Rigby Wisoff-Fields posts a picture prompt to challenge writers to create a 100-word story or poem or anything that works for you.  Then…

Your Holiday Hit Parade

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it has the spirit of Christmas but without the pressure of giving gifts.  With Thanksgiving come three things – weight gain, football, and the start of Christmas music on the radio, 24-hour Christmas songs until a day or two after the 25th.  Also happening on Thanksgiving, and happening only…

#newyorker magazine caption contest #357

So, like last time, you can put your caption here as a comment.  But better yet is to click on the picture, go to the New Yorker magazine website, and enter your caption in their contest.   “Of all the things to ask, you want to know if his name is Jerry?” Now get on with your…