tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37008696674315843012024-03-13T10:52:05.180-07:00MobyD's SoundingsMy Squidoo lenses, Celtic music, Renaissance Faires, photographs, other interesting things that might happen in my lifeMobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.comBlogger333125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-24623197410574098272014-02-16T09:52:00.000-08:002014-02-16T09:52:12.759-08:00Ground Fog Day<div id="lens_intro_title_value">
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Six More Weeks of Summer? Or Not?</h3>
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Everyone in the United States and Canada has heard about Groundhog Day
on February 2. Punxsutawney Phil, the Pennsylvania groundhog, is a
national icon. Whether or not he sees his shadow on Groundhog Day means
there may or may not be six more weeks of Winter. He gets national media
attention for this.<br />
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But what about whether or not there will be six more weeks of Summer?
Shouldn't there be a holiday on August 2 to help us determine that?
Clearly our calendar is missing a very important holiday. Is it an
oversight, or are we simply in denial and think Summer can last forever?
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Ground Fog Day: A Day Not to Be Mist </h3>
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</hgroup> <b>Q.</b> Haven't we gotten along just fine without Ground Fog Day?<br />
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<b>A.</b><span class="gmw_"> Have we really? I think people have been in denial about the end of Summer. They go merrily along, wearing Bermuda shorts, tank tops, bikinis and such, then suddenly - BLAM! - it's Labor Day (or Labour Day in Canada) and the next thing you know, the kids are back in school, then the leaves start turning, and the next thing (or should that be the next<span class="gm_ gm_c1d17a48-85ab-8f14-2d74-f268fe29b7fb gm-spell"> next </span>thing?) you know, you step outside in your Bermuda shorts or bikini and you freeze your, um, well, something rather vital off. The time has come for a national or even international Ground Fog Day. Wouldn't a little advance warning help?</span><br />
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<b>Q.</b> You ended with a question! Isn't that my job?<br />
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<b>A.</b> You're right. Sorry. Go ahead.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> Why do you say its time has come?<br />
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<b>A.</b> Its time has come because...well...ummm...uhhhh...because I thought of it, that's why! There's a story behind the origins of Ground Fog Day.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> And you're going to tell the story.<br />
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<b>A:</b> That's not a question.<br />
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<b>Q:</b> ::sigh:: Are you going to tell the story?<br />
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<b>A.</b> Of course! Back in the '70s a co-worker and I were doing a
monthly employee newsletter. I'd seen something about little-known
holidays and notable dates in history, none of which really existed, and
decided to devote a page to a month's worth of similar stuff like
"Procrastinators New Years Day" (March 1) and "First Sunday of Lint."
For August 2, I wrote in "Ground Fog Day." At the time, that was it.
Then in September 2008 I was looking up stuff about the Portland
(Oregon) Pirate Festival and recalled the "Talk Like a Pirate Day"
founders had been there in 2007. I was thinking they must have had fun
making up their own holiday. It made me remember that long-ago calendar
and Ground Fog Day seemed like a holiday to create. Being six months
from Groundhog Day, it seemed to have possibilities.<br />
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<b>Q:</b> What's the big deal about February 2nd and August 2nd?<br />
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<b>A:</b> Each date is close to an ancient Celtic holiday. February 2nd,
now popularly known as Groundhog Day, used to be celebrated by the
Celts as Imbolc. It's halfway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring
Equinox. Groundhog Day is based on the Scots tradition of looking for
serpents leaving their Winter holes on that day. While much of North
America is still locked in the dead of Winter, the Celtic lands of
western Scotland, Ireland, Brittany in France and Galicia in Spain, are
influenced by the Gulf Stream. This results in milder Winters than in
places like Minnesota or New England.<br />
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<b>A, Part II:</b> Lughnasadh (pronounced more like Lunasa) is
traditionally celebrated on August 1. It's halfway between the Summer
Solstice and the Autumn Equinox. It's a day when the Scots bat little
white balls around with sticks, trying to get them to go into holes in
the ground. It's probably a lot safer than trying to annoy cold, sleepy
serpents.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> Aren't there more than six weeks between August 2 and the first day of Autumn?<br />
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<b>A.</b> You had to get technical, didn't you? (Oops, sorry, that was a
question.) Yes, you're right, but people know Groundhog Day is February
2. I figure if we try to establish Ground Fog Day on another date,
people might get confused. Heck, <b><i>I</i></b> might get confused!
Besides the dates of the Vernal Equinox (when Spring starts) and the
Autumnal Equinox (three guesses what starts then, first two don't count)
keep moving around a bit, so neither February 2 or August 2 are six (or
seven) weeks before them. Also, back in the 1700s they changed the
calendar, which threw things off several days. It's more like seven
weeks for Ground Fog Day, but again, people (and I) could get confused
if we talk about seven more weeks of Summer because they're used to
hearing about Groundhog Day and six more weeks of Winter. Let's keep it
simple.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> Like you?<br />
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<b>A.</b> Hey!<br />
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<b>Q.</b> Sorry, but "seven more weeks of Summer" sounds better.<br />
<br />
<b>A.</b> I can't answer that since you didn't ask a question.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> Picky, picky, picky. All right, try this: You said "we." Who are "we"?<br />
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<b>A.</b> To start off, it's just me. I'm hoping people won't think too
hard about what that means: I'm writing both sides of this conversation.
I'm also hoping people will have some ideas about Ground Fog Day and
help out.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> Do you really think people are that weird?<br />
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<b>A.</b> Clearly some are. Have you seen the Squidoo lens for the <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/mosquito-protection-society">Mosquito Protection Society</a>? What about <a href="http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html">Talk Like a Pirate Day</a>? Ever heard of <a href="http://www.davebarry.com/">Dave Barry</a>, who helped make Talk Like a Pirate Day an international phenomenon? What about <a href="http://www.jasperfforde.com/">Jasper Fforde</a>? And what about Burning Man, Faerieworlds, Renaissance Fairs, and so on? Society is richer for having weird people in it!<br />
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<b>Q.</b> OK, I see your point, and I'll even forgive you for putting five questions in an answer.<br />
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<b>A.</b> And I'll forgive you for not asking a question again.<br />
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What is ground fog?</h3>
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<b>A.</b> Technically speaking, the term for the type of fog in question
is radiation fog. It forms at night under a clear sky when cool air
pools in low-lying areas. As Autumn approaches, the temperature in the
low-lying areas is more likely to get to within five degrees Fahrenheit
(2.8 degrees Celsius) of the dewpoint at night and fog forms.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> Radiation? Does that mean we'll need Geiger counters and those bulky suits like they wear in nuclear power plants?<br />
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<b>A.</b> No. We're talking about radiation, not radioactivity. Heat
radiates from the ground when air cools. If there are no clouds, heat
radiates into space and ground fog can form. If it's cloudy, some of the
heat gets trapped by the clouds and no ground fog forms.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> How deep does ground fog get?<br />
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<b>A.</b> It can be very shallow sometimes, not even up to your knees. At other times it can cover a house.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> When does ground fog become just plain old fog?<br />
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<b>A.</b> Ground fog covers less than 60% of the sky and doesn't extend
to the base of any overhead clouds. Most people think of ground fog as
being rather shallow, as shown in the photo. "Regular" fog is usually
much deeper, more widespread and more of a hazard to drivers and pilots.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> Is it dangerous?<br />
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<b>A.</b> It can be if it forms over a road and obscures road markings
or is deep enough to hide other cars. But even off the road it could be
dangerous. If it's thick, it could be hiding the infamous Bugblatter
Beast of Traal!<br />
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<b>Q.</b> But isn't the infamous Bugblatter Beast of Traal so stupid it assumes if you can't see it, it can't see you?<br />
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<b>A.</b> Well, yes, so it's not much of a danger unless you happen to stumble over one. I've heard they get quite annoyed about that.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobyd/2866868126/" rel="nofollow" title="Meat_Grinder by mobyd46, on Flickr"><img alt="Meat_Grinder" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3235/2866868126_421919db04_o.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0px;" title="" /></a><b>Q.</b> How do you grind fog?<br />
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<b>A.</b> All right, now you're just being silly.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> Why does the porridge bird lay its eggs in the air?<br />
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<b>A.</b> Really. Stop!<br />
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Is There an Official Site for Ground Fog Day? </h3>
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<b>A:</b> Punxsutawney, PA is the town that comes to mind (often
misspelled in many minds) for Groundhog Day, but it's only one of many
places that have their own weather-prognosticating groundhogs. So over
time, as this idea catches on like wildfire, there can be more than one
location where Ground Fog Day is observed.<br />
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To start off, I'm thinking of some low-lying place in Boring, Oregon.
That's partly because I live not too far away from Boring, and partly
because with a name like that, the town could probably use a little
excitement once a year. I'm also thinking any place Ground Fog Day is
observed should have an interesting name, even though saying Boring is
interesting sounds like an oxymoron.</div>
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A Few More Questions about Ground Fog Day </h3>
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</hgroup> <b>Q.</b> How is Ground Fog Day celebrated?<br />
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<b>A.</b> On August 2, people head out to be at the locally designated Ground Fog Day site by sunrise.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> By sunrise? You mean I'd have to get out of bed <b>that</b> early?<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OvGXi_dMx2Q/UwD3YagLNUI/AAAAAAAAEGU/U-Ismzs56RI/s1600/4+-+Ground+Fog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OvGXi_dMx2Q/UwD3YagLNUI/AAAAAAAAEGU/U-Ismzs56RI/s1600/4+-+Ground+Fog.jpg" style="cursor: move;" title=" " /></a><b>A.</b> Um, yeah. Ground fog usually dissipates soon after the sun hits it.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> You're kidding, right?<br />
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<b>A.</b> Well, um, let's see...you could party all night the night before and then go out to the site. You could combine celebrating Ground Fog Day with celebrating Lughnasadh on August 1.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> OK, that might work. So you go out to wherever the site is. Then what?<br />
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<b>A.</b> This is where it gets a little different from Groundhog Day.
The big thing on February 2 is the shadow. If the groundhog sees his
shadow, there's going to be six more weeks of Winter. With Ground Fog
Day, the big thing is the ground fog (duh!). But if you see ground fog,
that doesn't mean six more weeks of Summer. It means an early Autumn
because the ground fog and Autumn are both associated with cooler
weather.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> Don't you mean an early Fall?<br />
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<b>A.</b> That depends on how many Fog Cutters you had partying all night.<br />
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<b>Q.</b><span class="gmw_"> So you go out, don't see any ground fog, and there's going to be six (or seven) more weeks of Summer. Then what do you do?</span><br />
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<b>A.</b> Keep on partying if you're up to it, or go home and Autumn,
er, fall into bed knowing there's more bikini weather ahead. Or so you
hope.<br />
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<b>Q.</b> On the other hand, you go out, you see ground fog and that says there's going to be an early Autumn. What do you do then?<br />
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<b>A.</b><span class="gmw_"> Keep on partying like crazy because you know<span class="gm_ gm_fbcd47c0-6dd8-4f31-2fa3-2b3a85e3579c gm-spell gm_tiny"> </span>time is running short.</span><br />
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<b>Q.</b> So this is just an excuse to party, right?<br />
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<b>A.</b> You seem to be catching on.<br />
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<i>The information and photos in this post were originally created for my Squidoo.com lens <b>Ground Fog Day</b>, which has since been deleted. </i></div>
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MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-87346271077495375462014-02-15T19:22:00.001-08:002014-02-15T19:29:50.239-08:00Honkin' Huge Burritos in Portland, Oregon<h3 class="module_title">
Shelly's Garden: Home of Portland's Best Burritos</h3>
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Shelly's Garden in Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, Oregon isn't
just any lunch cart. It's the place where people who want a great lunch
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For over 20 years, Shelly Sorenson has been making her vegetarian
burritos, filling stomachs and pleasing palates with a tasty blend of
ingredients and a large variety of sauces from sweet and mild to hot and
spicy.</div>
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The best thing to do when you're hungry for lunch in Portland is get on
the MAX light rail or a bus (the city is noted for its great public
transportation), get off at Pioneer Courthouse Square, aka Portland's
living room, and look for Shelly's cart. It's usually near Mr. Portland,
the statue of a guy with an umbrella. You may have to stand in line for
a bit if it's lunchtime, but Shelly's quick and her burritos are worth
the wait.<br />
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If you think a Honkin' Huge burrito is too much for one sitting and you
didn't bring a friend to share it with, there are smaller sizes
available. Even the smallest size makes for a filling lunch. Also, she's
willing to cut a Honker in half and package it up so you can have lunch
today and tomorrow. Chat with her while she puts your burrito together -
she's very friendly.</div>
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The Making of a Honkin' Huge Burrito </h3>
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Honkin' Huge, Medium, or Small </h4>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MiFZZIVXp5c/UwAopJB7S_I/AAAAAAAAEEs/2DqZiHv8dsM/s1600/3+-+Shelly+and+customer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MiFZZIVXp5c/UwAopJB7S_I/AAAAAAAAEEs/2DqZiHv8dsM/s1600/3+-+Shelly+and+customer.jpg" title=" " /></a>The burritos are vegetarian, but even if you're a meat-eater, they're so
tasty you won't want to pass them up. While there are basic
ingredients, she gives you a lot of choices.<br />
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She slaps a tortilla on the grill then puts on a ladle of smooshed pinto
beans, adds the rice, shredded cheddar cheese, then she'll ask if you
want sour cream or yogurt. Next is the shredded lettuce, and she'll ask
if you want onion, then she adds the guacamole. Tomatoes can be added
either inside or outside. Next Shelly asks which of her wide variety of
sauces you'd like to add. They range from mild and sweet to hot and
spicy. One of my favorites is Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue sauce.</div>
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With a few folds, the tasty and healthy burrito is ready to go into the
folded paper tray. If you want to eat right there in Pioneer Square,
it's ready to go, or if you're headed back to the office, she'll wrap
some aluminum foil over the top, and you can get a paper bag, very handy
if you are getting more than one or the Honker is divided into two
portions.<br />
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You'll probably want something to drink to wash it all down. There's a
variety of canned soda, but Shelly's specialty is fresh-squeezed
lemonade in the summer.<br />
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And don't forget the napkins, plastic forks and knives.<br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> Speaking of making things, the Honkin' Huge Burritos cart was built by Shelly's father. He built it well and he built it to last.</span></span></span></div>
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Pioneer Square, Portland, Oregon </h4>
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Shelly Sorenson makes a burrito at her lunch cart in Pioneer Courthouse
Square, Portland, Oregon. Her assistant Sarah portrayed the customer.
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It's a pretty full day </h4>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ST5ZnNUFf6s/UwAoozo8M9I/AAAAAAAAEEk/V6FVCLZCo9A/s1600/5+-+Behind+the+cart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ST5ZnNUFf6s/UwAoozo8M9I/AAAAAAAAEEk/V6FVCLZCo9A/s1600/5+-+Behind+the+cart.jpg" title=" " /></a>Shelly usually is open for business at 11:30 in the morning, which is
good for people who start work long before 9 a.m. and go to lunch before
most folks, as I did during two jobs in the downtown area. She's
usually on the scene until 2:30. That's only part of the day.
Add in a half hour before opening, another half hour after closing, four
hours of preparation and about an hour for shopping, and she's got a
full day.<br />
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There are times when she has assistants take over for her, but she's at
the cart most of the time it's open. She told me she really loves what
she's doing, can't imagine doing anything else unless she really had to,
and hopes to be serving up burritos, Honkin' Huge or otherwise, for
many years to come.</div>
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Often if she can't be open for her regular hours due to weather, events in the Square, etc. she'll post something to her Facebook page at:</div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Honkin-Huge-Burritos/271014579577297">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Honkin-Huge-Burritos/271014579577297</a></div>
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There is another page called Honkin' Huge Burritos! (notice the exclamation point), created by a burrito fan, but the one linked above is Shelly's page where you can keep up with openings and closings.</div>
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Pioneer Courthouse Square </h3>
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Portland's Living Room </h4>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Et-aARaYh6c/UwAopeeJYWI/AAAAAAAAEE4/whGoS2-UDJk/s1600/6+-+Allow+Me+statue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Et-aARaYh6c/UwAopeeJYWI/AAAAAAAAEE4/whGoS2-UDJk/s1600/6+-+Allow+Me+statue.jpg" title=" " /></a>Pioneer Courthouse Square wasn't always Portland's living room. In the
1800s the city block was the site of a school, and toward the end of
that century an eight-story hotel was built. The hotel was replaced by a
parking garage in 1951, then the site became a designated public space
in the 1970s. A design competition determined the look of the square,
and the project was completed in 1984, partly funded by donors who
purchased bricks for the square. The bricks are inscribed with the
donors' names.<br />
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There are a number of interesting architectural and artistic features in
the square. One of the more popular ones is a statue of a man in a
business suit holding an umbrella (Portland gets about 2/3 of its annual
rainfall in the winter months). The official name for the statue is <i>Allow Me</i>, but it is better known as "Umbrella Man" or "Mr. Portland." There are often people posing for pictures with him.<br />
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The Square plays host to a number of activities during the year, from a
gathering place for welcoming in the New Year, to music performances at
noon in the summer. Once people were invited to come to the square with
their guitars on a Sunday afternoon in June 2003 to join in singing
Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" to set a Guinness World Record
for the most guitars brought together to perform one song. They
succeeded. The square also was the setting for "Sand in the City," a
professional-level sand castle building competition. In keeping with the
commonly seen bumper sticker that says "Keep Portland Weird," Pioneer
Courthouse Square was the scene of an all-city pillow fight in 2006.</div>
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<i>The photos and text in this blog post were originally posted to my Squidoo.com lens <b>Honkin' Huge Burritos</b>, which has now been deleted.</i></div>
MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-85808121269727645842014-02-15T16:28:00.001-08:002014-02-15T17:11:28.263-08:00Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett<h3 class="module_title">
Me? Read Discworld? But I Don't Like Fantasy!</h3>
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I'd heard about Discworld for years, but after reading <i>The Hobbit</i> and the <i>Lord of the Rings</i>
trilogy back in the '70s, I wasn't drawn to fantasy any further. To me
it just seemed like people were taking a lot of non-existent stuff like
magic, dragons, monsters, etc. way too seriously.<br />
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<span class="gmw_"> Terry Pratchett, according to the video that follows, was having similar thoughts. So he invented an improbable world: a flat disc on the backs of four immense elephants standing on the shell of an immense star turtle, the Great A'Tuin. Not only is such a world highly improbable, it is populated with a motley collection of wizards, witches, thieves, assassins, an inept City Watch in the sprawling and<span class="gm_ gm_5aff56b5-4d8e-b7a1-584e-5d8bb8fd758a gm-spell gm_tiny"> </span>highly disreputable city of Ankh-Morpork, and of course Death, who speaks in all capitals and rides a pale horse named Binky. Fantasy? Yes. Serious? Not so much. </span></div>
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The Discworld Reading Order Guide </h3>
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Straight through or jump around? It's your choice. </h4>
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I've created three Listmania lists on Amazon.com that list the first 20 novels in order of publication, the second 20, and the related books in order of publication within that list. <br />
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Some argue against starting with the first novel, <i>The Colour of Magic</i>.
Usually they say some of the later books are much better, some say you
might have trouble getting through the first book. Like most writers,
Terry Pratchett got better as he went along. But <i>The Colour of Magic</i>
is where it all began. If you start there, you'll know things will
develop in future books simply because the series has grown to 40 books.
From the beginning you'll see how Pratchett started developing the
Discworld. And it's not like it was his first published work. He'd
started with <i>The Carpet People</i> in 1971 and wrote two trilogies for young readers as well as two adult science fiction novels. <i>The Colour of Magic</i> is not the work of a beginning novelist.<br />
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This guide (above) is from <a href="http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/index.html" rel="nofollow">The L-Space Web: Discworld Reading Order Guides</a> where it can be viewed at a 1,000-pixel width. This copy is 600 pixels wide. </div>
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<span class="gmw_"> Wizards, Witches, Death, Old Times, and a Revolution </span></h3>
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To say nothing of the Luggage </h4>
</hgroup><hgroup class="module_header"></hgroup>Here are links to the three Amazon Listmania lists
I've created. Clicking on the list titles will take you to each list,
then you can link to each book you're interested in. I've listed the
books under each list title by number (in order of publication) title,
theme, and year published. For the related books, I have listed them by
title, authors, and year of publication.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z2VY5fSQjAc/UwAChp7mynI/AAAAAAAAEC0/4yv4OIVEKHo/s1600/Wizzard_hat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z2VY5fSQjAc/UwAChp7mynI/AAAAAAAAEC0/4yv4OIVEKHo/s1600/Wizzard_hat.jpg" title=" " /></a><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Terry-Pratchett-s-Discworld-Novels-1-20/lm/RQVBY2UC43C9F/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&tag=hapuwitr-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels 1-20</a>:</b><br />
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1. <b>The Colour of Magic</b> - Rincewind -1983<br />
2. <b>The Light Fantastic</b> - Rincewind - 1986<br />
3. <b>Equal Rites</b> - Witches - 1987<br />
4. <b>Mort </b>- Death - 1987<br />
5. <b>Sourcery</b> - Rincewind - 1988<br />
6. <b>Wyrd Sisters</b> - Witches - 1988<br />
7. <b>Pyramids</b> - Ancient Civilizations - 1989<br />
8. <b>Guards! Guards!</b> - City Watch 1989<br />
9. <b>Eric - Rincewind</b> - 1990<br />
10. <b>Moving Pictures</b> - Industrial Revolution - 1990<br />
11. <b>Reaper Man</b> - Death 1991<br />
12. <b>Witches Abroad</b> - Witches - 1991<br />
13. <b>Small Gods</b> - Ancient Civilizations 1992<br />
14. <b>Lords and Ladies</b> - Witches - 1992<br />
15. <b>Men at Arms</b> - City Watch 1993<br />
16. <b>Soul Music</b> - Death - 1994<br />
17. <b>Interesting Times</b> - Rincewind - 1994<br />
18. <b>Makerade</b> - Witches - 1995<br />
19. <b>Feet of Clay</b> - City Watch - 1996<br />
20. <b>Hogfather</b> - Death - 1996<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Terry-Pratchett-s-Discworld-Novels-21-40/lm/R6WLIMC3RP2S0/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&tag=hapuwitr-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels 21-40</a>:</b><br />
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21. <b>Jingo</b> - City Watch - 1997<br />
22. <b>The Last Continent</b> - Rincewind - 1998<br />
23. <b>Carpe Jugulum</b> - Witches - 1998<br />
24. <b>The Fifth Elephant</b> - City Watch - 1999<br />
25. <b>The Truth</b> - Industrial Revolution - 2000<br />
26. <b>Thief of Time</b> - Death - 2001<br />
27. <b>The Last Hero</b> - Rincewind - 2001<br />
28. <b>The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents</b> - Young Adult - 2002<br />
29. <b>Night Watch </b>- City Watch - 2002<br />
30. <b>The Wee Free Men</b> - Young Adult - 2003<br />
31. <b>Monstrous Regiment</b> - City Watch - 2003<br />
32. <b>A Hat Full of Sky</b> - Young Adult -2004<br />
33. <b>Going Postal</b> - Industrial Revolution - 2004<br />
34. <b>Thud!</b> - City Watch - 2005<br />
35. <b>Wintersmith</b> - Young Adult - 2006<br />
36. <b>Making Money</b> - Industrial Revolution - 2007<br />
37. <b>Unseen Academicals</b> - Rincewind - 2009<br />
38. <b>I Shall Wear Midnight</b> - Young Adult - 2010<br />
39. <b>Snuff</b> - City Watch - 2011<br />
40. <b>Raising Steam</b> - Industrial Revolution 2012<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Terry-Pratchett-s-Discworld-Mapps-Guides-Science-and-More/lm/R2WYYS5Q6NZGKT/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&tag=hapuwitr-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Terry Pratchett's Discworld - Mapps, Guides, Science, and More</a>:</b><br />
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<b>The Streets of Ankh-Morpork</b> by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs - 1993<br />
<b>The Discworld Mapp</b><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> by Terry </span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gm_ gm_4f12f31e-cf3d-6ada-7812-b4a93ebbf3b8 gm-spell">Prachett</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and Stephen Briggs - 1995</span></span></span><br />
<b>A Tourist Guide to Lancre</b> by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs - 1998<br />
<b>Death's Domain</b> by Terry Pratchett, illustrated by Paul Kidby - 1999<br />
<b>The Science of Discworld, Revised Edition</b> by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen - 2002<br />
<b>The Science of Discworld II: The Globe</b> by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen - 2003<br />
<b>The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch</b> by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen - 2006<br />
<b>The Science of Discworld IV: Judgment Day</b> by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen - 2013<br />
<b>Nanny Ogg's Cookbook</b> by Tina Hannan and Stephen Briggs - 2002<br />
<b>The New Discworld Companion</b> by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs - 2004<br />
<b>Where's My Cow?</b> by Terry Pratchett, illustrated by Mervyn Grant - 2005<br />
<b>The World of Poo</b> by Terry Pratchett, illustrated by Peter Dennis - 2012<br />
<b>The Art of Discworld</b> by Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby - 2006<br />
<b>The Folklore of Discworld</b> by Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson - 2008<br />
<b>The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld</b> by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs - 2008<br />
<b>Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion .. So Far</b> by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs - 2012</div>
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The Luggage by MobyD</h3>
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Every Summer since 2006 I have gone to the Faerieworlds festival near
Eugene, Oregon. Since 2007 I have dressed as a wizard. In 2012 I saw an
unfinished trunk for sale at a local crafts store. I immediately
thought, "The Luggage!" Over the next few weeks, The Luggage took shape.<br />
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It's not made of sapient pearwood, and since I'm not a wizard outside of
the Faerieworlds realm, I couldn't conjure up hundreds of tiny legs. So
I mounted The Luggage on eight-inch wheels so I'd be able to pull it
over the slightly rough ground. The ten legs aren't exactly tiny, but
they needed to cover the wheels as much as possible. Since they're
larger, I decided to make them colorful. The teeth are made of craft
sticks.<br />
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I have two simple costumes to go with The Luggage, a brown robe and
"WIZZARD" hat transform me into Rincewind, while shorts, a Hawai'ian
shirt and a white bucket hat transform me into Twoflower. The back of
The Luggage sports a photo-replica of an Oregon license plate that reads
"2FLOWR."<br />
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<i>The text and images above formerly were part of my now-deleted Squidoo.com lens "Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett. The photo of Sir Terry holding a book is from Amazon.com. I am using it as an Amazon Associate promoting his books on that website. </i></div>
MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-4851106168595471602014-02-15T11:19:00.001-08:002014-02-15T11:51:53.481-08:00Spoonerisms: Toungled Tangs, Wixed-up Murds<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">We've all done it. We dry our <span class="gm_ gm_1a619146-a235-26ec-9d4f-368048261b28 gm-spell">tarnedest</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> to <span class="gm_ gm_6e273f41-bfb5-1235-cbc5-c3b9806d96e5 gm-spell">cleak</span></span></span></span><span class="gmw_"> </span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gm_ gm_5bc05a4e-012e-2ca7-1cdb-ede8410acba8 gm-spell">spearly</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and make our cleanings mere, but it rums out all </span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gm_ gm_65642409-405f-f20e-e6e8-636c5d10fa40 gm-spell">cong</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">. It might happen during a tight on the noun, when we've had tee many </span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gm_ gm_bab44353-f827-c740-04ce-231c85397a2f gm-spell">martoonis</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and are <span class="gm_ gm_d7181710-0879-d990-a7fc-666d07a17b8a gm-spell">thunker</span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> than we drink. Or we may be <span class="gm_ gm_b3c3f25f-fc21-df20-caea-b7577396c0b2 gm-spell">serfectly</span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> <span class="gm_ gm_80be8445-5fb0-f502-c4d6-d55c080bb1b7 gm-spell">pober</span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Writers and comedians have taken Aesop's Fables, Grimm's Fairy Tales and
Mother Goose stories and given them the Spoonerism treatment. We'll meet a few of them below.</span></span></div>
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930) became well-known for his tendency to <span class="gm_ gm_9c2bcab6-85de-e9f3-2e30-bc6d4a105ad1 gm-spell">wix</span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> up <span class="gm_ gm_ceb76fe5-305a-c4a6-fcc2-8c9d1a2b04eb gm-spell">murds</span> spontaneously. Things change in the telling however and today Spooner, who became Warden of New College, Oxford, is credited for many Spoonerisms he never uttered. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd edition, 1979) lists only one Spoonerism attributed to the good reverend: "The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer."</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Spooner, who spent his entire adult life associated with New College,
was a kindly man and well-liked in the Oxford community. Students had
great fun making up Spoonerisms, but in an affectionate way, not
intending to insult Spooner. This type of wordplay had been practiced at
Oxford since the mid-nineteenth century. The term "Spoonerism" was in
common use at Oxford by 1885, and known throughout England by 1900.<br />
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Rev. Spooner not only mixed up words, but also entire concepts on
occasion. It is reported he once spilled salt at a dinner and carefully
poured some wine on it, a reversal of the usual procedure. It's also
said that he once remarked of a widow that "her husband was eaten by
missionaries."<br />
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Fans of the urban legend site Snopes.com may be familiar with lists of
quotes attributed to people like Andy Rooney, George Carlin and Stephen
Wright. These lists often are filled with quotes those people never
said. As the often-quoted Yogi Berra once remarked, "I really didn't say
everything I said." This would come as no surprise to Rev. Spooner, who
died long before the Internet came about. Some of the quotes attached
to his name include:<br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> "Mardon me, <span class="gm_ gm_1447b0f1-d416-94aa-fe81-51a7dfb35743 gm-spell">padam</span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, but you are <span class="gm_ gm_77d22ce5-6ffe-dcdc-1a1b-e950a117311b gm-spell">occupewing</span> the wrong pie. May I sew you to another sheet?"</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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"You have hissed all my mystery lectures, and were caught fighting a
liar in the quad. Having tasted two worms, you will leave by the next
town drain." ("Town drain" = "down train," the drain, er, train, from
Oxford down to London.)<br />
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"Let us glaze our asses to the queer old Dean."<br />
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"Is the bean dizzy?"<br />
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"There is no peace in a home where a dinner swells."<br />
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"The Lord is a shoving leopard."<br />
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Rev. Spooner wasn't entirely happy with his accidental notoriety. It is
told that one night a group of students gathered under his window and
began clamoring for him to make a speech. He came to the window and
said, "You don't want a speech. You only want me to say one of <i>those things</i>."</div>
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<span class="gmw_"> Spoonerisms, Malapropisms, Eggcorns <span class="gm_ gm_9fcf88bd-8d5a-d496-2b4b-890287c2194e gm-spell">&amp</span>; Mondegreens </span></h3>
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What's the difference? </h4>
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">As we've seen, a Spoonerism occurs when the first sounds in adjacent words get exchanged. "Wixed up <span class="gm_ gm_c9723b08-2d2f-2672-fc36-87912020aa82 gm-spell">murds</span>" instead of "mixed up words," for instance. They can be accidental, as in Rev. Spooner's case, or deliberate as in the numerous cases in this lens.</span></span></span><br />
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A malapropism occurs when a completely different word is substituted for the one meant. The term derives from the French term <i><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">mal à <span class="gm_ gm_35aaa785-3f94-8b96-1862-97a0511deb30 gm-spell">propos</span></span></span></span></i><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> (literally "ill-suited"). 18th-century playwright Richard Sheridan created a character, Mrs. Malaprop, in his 1775 play </span></span><i>The Rivals</i><span class="gmw_">. For instance, she said "...she's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of Nile." Of course, she meant "alligator." The substituted word is a real word<span class="gm_ gm_7c57a43d-2147-c895-639a-166dab9c232c gm-spell gm_tiny"> </span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">but it makes no sense in the context it is used. Mrs. Malaprop was </span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gm_ gm_04def563-be02-489c-24c2-f8c7c410c676 gm-spell">blithely</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> unaware of her errors, but sometimes people commit a malapropism and instantly realize their mistake. A friend once told me, "It seems like every time I get in the shower the toilet rings." She knew immediately what she'd done, and we both cracked up.</span></span><br />
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Then there's the <i>eggcorn</i><span class="gmw_"> which is an idiosyncratic substitution that might make sense such as "old-timer's disease" for "Alzheimer's disease." The term was coined by Jeffrey <span class="gm_ gm_f8ac9c3b-c868-30a9-ae41-5e31b21e6bf0 gm-spell">Pullham</span> in 2003. He was responding to an article by Mark Liberman who wrote of someone who said "egg corn" instead of "acorn." Liberman said there was no term for that kind of substitution. Pullham suggested "eggcorn" itself. The recently invented word "refudiate" is an eggcorn.</span><br />
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Finally, we have Mondegreens. These are usually misheard song lyrics. The term was coined by Sylvia Wright in a 1954 essay in <i>Harper's Magazine</i><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, "The Death of Lady Mondegreen." She'd misheard a line in the Scottish ballad "The Bonny Earl O'Moray. " Ye Highlands and <span class="gm_ gm_0a0184d8-68c3-a2c1-7764-d60fd6c14b3e gm-spell">ye</span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> Lowlands, / Oh, where <span class="gm_ gm_87763ce6-9595-b38d-ec51-97c5c6d1b728 gm-spell">hae</span></span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> <span class="gm_ gm_91249756-b820-e7b7-3b51-adc8faba7bae gm-spell">ye</span></span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> been? / They <span class="gm_ gm_32be2dff-3dda-40ad-e461-31b518c3446b gm-spell">hae</span> slain the Earl O' Moray, / And Lady Mondegreen." The fourth line is really "And laid him on the green."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Enter Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle </h3>
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My Tale Is Twisted! Or the Storal to this Mory </h4>
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F. Chase Taylor was a radio comedian who created the character of
Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle. His first radio job at the CBS affiliate
in Buffalo, NY led to teaming up with announcer Budd Hollick after they
had to ad-lib for fifteen minutes when a storm caused the station to
lose the feed from the network. Stoopnagle and Budd became famous in the
1930s, appearing on many radio shows, including a stint as Fred Allen's
summer replacement in 1936. They went their separate ways in 1937.<br />
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Taylor, as Stoopnagle, continued on as a radio and print comedian, publishing several books in addition to <i>My Tale Is Twisted!</i><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> (1945). He also proposed a number of inventions, including an upside down<span class="gm_ gm_9490a3b8-07d0-6ce1-0284-121ab9408267 gm-spell gm_tiny"> </span>lighthouse for submarines; the </span></span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gm_ gm_e1442868-b468-a7a7-19df-9fe6c2ee2d6a gm-spell">tates</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, a compass that points anywhere</span></span></span><span class="gm_ gm_5794a891-6b45-277d-45f9-78fa624415a8 gm-spell gm_tiny"> </span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">but north, proving he who has a <span class="gm_ gm_fead28b6-716b-e152-4f65-263c0ed4988f gm-spell">tates</span> is lost; and a twenty-foot pole for touching people you wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. He was known for his more-than-a-little-strange catchphrases such as, "If it weren't for half the people in the United States, the other half would be all of them."</span></span></span><br />
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Stoopnagle's <i>My Tale Is Twisted</i> is made up of "Wart Pun: Aysop's Feebles" and "Tart Pooh: Tairy and Other Fales." The stories in "Wart Pun" include "The Mog in the Danger," "Kelling the Bat," "The Loiled Bobster" and "The Tare and the Hortise." In "Tart Pooh" we encounter "The Pea Little Thrigs," "The Heck of the Resperus," "Gransel and Hetl" and "Paul Revide's Rear." The latter item includes a stanza of Henry Longworth Wadsfellow's famous poem.<br />
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Taylor got into television in 1949 with <i>Colonel Stoopnagle's Stoop</i>. Unfortunately, he died in 1950 of a heart ailment at the age of 52.</div>
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Colonel Stoopnagle Is Rescued from Obscurity </h3>
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...and elevated to at least semi-obscurity by Keen James</h4>
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Humor doesn't always stay in the limelight. While Colonel Stoopnagle may
have enjoyed fame in the 1930s and 1940s, few today are probably aware
of his comic genius. <i>My Tale Is Twisted!</i> had faded from the
public consciousness when it was discovered by Keen James, who liked
reading to his children. Even though his youngest daughter was beyond
the age of being read to, James read it to her anyway, and she and he
were both delighted.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1891135031/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1891135031&linkCode=as2&tag=hapuwitr-20" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=1891135031&Format=_SL110_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=hapuwitr-20" title="" /></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=hapuwitr-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1891135031" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> James decided to get Stoopnagle's masterpiece back into print. He took the stories, updated some of the references for today's readers and listeners (for instance, Stoopnagle had never heard of Rulia Joberts or Spitney Brears), added some appendices, and published <i>Stoopnagle's Tale Is Twisted: Spoonerisms Run Amok</i>
with Stone and Scott Publishers in 2000. The appendices include short
biographies of Rev. Spooner and Colonel Stoopnagle, a detailed
explanation of the Spoonerism and its many forms, and "Kernels from the
Colonel," which includes titles of books Stoopnagle never got around to
writing, the original introduction and the original back cover. (If you click on the cover, you'll go to the book's page on Amazon.com)<br />
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If one were to consider Stoopnagle's original work as the bible of
Spoonerisms, then the latter work can be considered the Keen James
version of that bible.<br />
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<b>About Keen James</b><br />
According to an online entry for the <i>Princeton Alumni Weekly</i>,
Keen James was born in 1929. His studies at Princeton were interrupted
by service in the Air Force as a Russian Language specialist from 1949
to 1954. He returned to Princeton and graduated with a B.A. in English
in 1957. He did graduate work at Colorado State University. Following
his retirement in 1994, James edited and published the memoirs of his
great-grandfather William W. Keen, Jr., a surgeon in the Civil War. Dr.
Keen performed the first successful brain tumor operation in 1887. Keen
James also published <i>Stoopnagle's Tale is Twisted</i>. James died in September 2005 of a respiratory ailment. He was 76.</div>
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Spoonerisms in the Wild </h3>
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Spamous Foonerisms you may have heard </h4>
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One of the oldest and best known Spoonerisms in radio was uttered by announcer Harry Von Zell in the early 1930s: "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Hoobert Heever."<br />
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Another announcer once solemnly intoned, "All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor."<br />
<br />
As Queen Elizabeth II sailed into Sydney Harbour aboard the royal yacht <i>Brittania</i><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, an excited announcer said, "...and there goes the 21-sun <span class="gm_ gm_76d596f7-32c4-f10b-5464-47ca10765111 gm-spell">galute</span>."</span></span></span><br />
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It was once announced that word of an impending presidential veto came from "a high White Horse souse."<br />
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<span class="gmw_">TV producer Kermit Schaefer produced a number of "Blooper" albums in the 1950s and 1960s which included these and many other Spoonerisms, malapropisms, and just plain mistakes. While many were genuine recordings, some were recreated. Unfortunately, none of the LP albums <span class="gm_ gm_53bbd885-4efa-2d91-8005-b40236d2e93d gm-spell">have</span> been transferred to CD. They inspired several TV shows that are still airing today.</span></div>
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Loonerisms in My Spife </h3>
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I first encountered Spoonerisms in grade school. In one of the books
in reading class, about a boy named Homer in the fictional town of
Centerville, the town's barber answered his phone by saying, "Sharber
bop!" Half a century later, the barber and his Spoonerisms are about all
I remember about that book. But it got me started thinking about
Spoonerisms, and I never really stopped.<br />
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Later on, in the 1960s a novelty record about Rindercella and the Prandsome Hince came out. I learned enough of it to be able to tell the story, although I had to make up a few lines of my own since I never owned the record. A few years later I saw Archie Campbell on "Hee Haw" do his version of the story. In the mid-70s, I did a version of Rindercella at a cast party during my one and only try at community theater. That bit was a bigger hit than my small part.<br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> A few years later, a folk musician at the Northern Lights Coffeehouse, a church-basement venue in Fitchburg, MA where I was<span class="gm_ gm_cafbdf80-bea5-07f0-ec7b-beba586131fa gm-spell gm_tiny"> </span>emcee, performed another Spoonerized </span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gm_ gm_bc8c69b9-6e4c-fab3-2161-d4470f04ec0b gm-spell">tairy</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> <span class="gm_ gm_adedcafa-4802-f211-bef9-72623a97951f gm-spell">fale</span></span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> about Beeping Sleauty, who was cursed to frick her pinger on a winning spiel <span class="gm_ gm_26d6386b-65a7-a6d0-ed88-3bdbf9ddb62d gm-spell">dindle</span> and spy, but she went into a sleep dumber instead.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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During the late '80s I did a couple of folk radio shows on WICN, a
public radio station in Worcester, MA. Two other folk announcers and I
were sharing the duties during a fundraiser. One decided to play "The
Fiddler and the Peddler" by Rick and Lorraine Lee. I happened to
mention, "Now there's a title you don't want to mess up." I probably
shouldn't have said that, because my friend announced it as "The Piddler
and the Feddler."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">A </span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gm_ gm_48a2fe04-16d6-fc08-7492-2a7d26bf291e gm-spell">bizard</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">'s</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> <span class="gm_ gm_be1229f2-8888-5a64-40d8-54e3d0f4e2c6 gm-spell">wizness</span> card</span></span></span></td></tr>
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At the Faerieworlds Summer Celebration<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> in 2008 near Eugene, OR, I was dressed as a wizard, much as I had the previous year. This time, however, my persona was Cabra <span class="gm_ gm_826858d1-fb15-abd3-b822-3a155d8945d4 gm-spell">d'Abra</span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, the Wurst Accizard, under the spell of a witched wick. Any time I tried to <span class="gm_ gm_f2b7f943-319e-6fd3-e9be-9afb1a658cdc gm-spell">meak</span></span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> of <span class="gm_ gm_306de5d4-91f6-b751-82b5-a09e9cb5fa70 gm-spell">spagic</span></span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, I would spook in Speenerisms, which of course made it hard to <span class="gm_ gm_1c057434-abf7-1715-acad-4e428156be53 gm-spell">spast</span><span class="gmw_"> <span class="gm_ gm_6efa58c7-1f4f-dfcf-3e8d-7e54662abeb9 gm-spell">kells</span><span class="gmw_">. I've continued going to Faerieworlds as a Woonerizing <span class="gm_ gm_bbe4fd87-16c1-2aa8-e5c0-e926336cb49f gm-spell">spizard</span>, although thanks to a small role in the independent film </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i>The Otherworld</i>, I've changed the name to Gwydion.</div>
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<i>This was originally part of my Squidoo.com lens <b>Spoonerisms</b>, which was a Lens of the Day on November 7, 2008. The lens has since been deleted.</i><br />
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Other blog posts taken from the Spoonerisms lens, including this one, are:<br />
<ul>
<li>Spoonerisms: Toungled Tangs, Wixed-up Murds</li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-wabberjocky-by-cewis-larroll.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Wabberjocky by Cewis Larroll</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-rindercella-and-prandsome.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Rindercella and the Prandsome Hince</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-beeping-sleauty.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Beeping Sleauty</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-druff-magic-pagan.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Druff the Magic Pagan </a></li>
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MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-44888075461004458782014-02-15T11:17:00.004-08:002014-02-15T11:49:40.043-08:00Spoonerisms: Wabberjocky by Cewis Larroll<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Jabberwock" by Sir John Tenniel</td></tr>
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Bras <span class="gm_ gm_c61599a4-7bbc-0d39-591b-75d5db0c9ac1 gm-spell">twillig</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and the <span class="gm_ gm_ceff7065-a7e3-7994-b115-ca2506b24532 gm-spell">tithey</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> <span class="gm_ gm_770743c1-d48a-82df-fc5c-52eb63479dc0 gm-spell">sloves</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> Did wire and wimble in the <span class="gm_ gm_2881485a-7e46-d8ef-f400-efcb5a483a0a gm-spell">gabe</span>;</span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> All <span class="gm_ gm_0e82d3b5-3cb8-f9e8-2763-f6116e7bfd99 gm-spell">bimsy</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> were the <span class="gm_ gm_ac7c36d6-727e-dafb-cb73-390a855eeaf9 gm-spell">morogroves</span>,</span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> And the <span class="gm_ gm_b38af734-4e89-07fb-7470-bd015a9913f9 gm-spell">rome</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> maths grout <span class="gm_ gm_8885d6a6-378f-0d28-46ff-a3b80c0c6699 gm-spell">abe</span>.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> "<span class="gm_ gm_22047eb2-841d-7c62-f158-5f28a01b5360 gm-spell">Webare</span> the </span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gm_ gm_7ffab744-f68d-0829-458f-ff50b36cd3b3 gm-spell">wabberjock</span>, my son!</span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> The <span class="gm_ gm_14e3a835-355e-7d38-9f1c-78a2426e8c53 gm-spell">baws</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> that <span class="gm_ gm_9f45a877-2669-cd8d-2438-f615169652c6 gm-spell">jite</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, the caws that <span class="gm_ gm_4f95ec9e-6a5c-ebf1-4774-afe0f9871c5b gm-spell">clatch</span>!</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> <span class="gm_ gm_74bc2e27-4a7a-848b-a3f1-baf6e9c5da65 gm-spell">Webare</span> the bub-bub jird and shun</span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> The <span class="gm_ gm_73fbb47d-8903-2c8a-4e16-5ec482f880d9 gm-spell">brumious</span> Snanderfatch."</span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> He took his <span class="gm_ gm_4c61fdcd-922e-4cdc-9629-7236112fb4a9 gm-spell">sworpal</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> horde in <span class="gm_ gm_f259a0c1-bbab-10fe-16d8-7b06cd1b0ab5 gm-spell">vand</span>;</span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> Tong lime the <span class="gm_ gm_19d9a395-115a-12ff-8025-376b6efc3af5 gm-spell">fanxome</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> <span class="gm_ gm_afcbd208-8c48-a183-9ef3-ed95b89deabc gm-spell">moe</span> he sought--</span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> And <span class="gm_ gm_9b69e5cf-25f0-ca94-ea5f-01a2da2b33ac gm-spell">hested</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> re by the <span class="gm_ gm_277ccd01-bc7d-efa4-5f72-f41536972667 gm-spell">trumtrum</span> tee,</span></span></span><br />
And wood a stile in thought.<br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> And while in <span class="gm_ gm_d85fdb6c-dd32-7fc6-1027-35b53c8e85f0 gm-spell">thuffish</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> ought <span class="gm_ gm_b3e1f3e7-c9d7-b519-0abe-7dec490a38bf gm-spell">ste</span> hood</span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> The <span class="gm_ gm_3ff5f695-4e41-7268-7e6f-908fc8702c8d gm-spell">wabberjock</span>, with flies of aim,</span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> Whame <span class="gm_ gm_bd3b011a-3af3-9dff-4267-a0200b48a9d3 gm-spell">kiffling</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> through the <span class="gm_ gm_625a4dc5-99c6-96b2-2419-b985838453f8 gm-spell">wulgey</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> <span class="gm_ gm_9d2cbeb3-f1af-a017-a1ee-e62e5f5f5338 gm-spell">tood</span>,</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> And <span class="gm_ gm_9ec061df-2e98-62f9-f73b-f1b4b6cc6542 gm-spell">curbled</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> as it <span class="gm_ gm_b7367b28-024b-defa-9e92-ffe6c080d180 gm-spell">bame</span>!</span></span></span><br />
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Ton, woo! Ton woo! and through and through<br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> The <span class="gm_ gm_4662e14d-d36f-6a6b-af6b-6054c3857e1b gm-spell">blorpal</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> vade <span class="gm_ gm_464fbadc-8f9c-9d58-bc16-4c43ba6ca2b3 gm-spell">snent</span> wicker-wack!</span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> He deft it lead and <span class="gm_ gm_b48fe815-f584-44c7-150d-7c1add0fd5c4 gm-spell">hith</span> its wed</span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> He went <span class="gm_ gm_e29e020f-26d6-acc6-8dd2-aa19d7d1303e gm-spell">balumphing</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> <span class="gm_ gm_474f202c-f5e9-7819-79f3-ea79829a961f gm-spell">gack</span>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> "And <span class="gm_ gm_bf4203a1-c403-59c8-52bb-14f2b78aa605 gm-spell">slast</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> thou <span class="gm_ gm_b28ef5cf-9575-ac49-1d30-8ccfb9a90002 gm-spell">hain</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> the <span class="gm_ gm_f5ea747f-8ef6-6ee2-2196-21ccfe6c8ea0 gm-spell">wabberjock</span>?</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> Oh bum to my <span class="gm_ gm_23aac7ba-9cc0-269c-a2ae-ce20d711d41a gm-spell">carms</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, beam <span class="gm_ gm_61c44c92-56b4-c436-a1fa-c992f704dc89 gm-spell">myish</span> boy!</span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> Oh <span class="gm_ gm_14d2f4fc-a17b-0f15-30fd-718e57425517 gm-spell">dabjous</span> cay! Fraloo! Frallay!"</span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> He <span class="gm_ gm_00147c9c-8caa-1538-cf80-8630f6b64831 gm-spell">jortled</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> in his <span class="gm_ gm_5270d29c-ede4-2028-56cf-3c5ef7a2febc gm-spell">choy</span>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> Bras <span class="gm_ gm_2079387a-38f8-aeeb-f200-a4d599fa8642 gm-spell">twillig</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and the <span class="gm_ gm_cb6995dd-1507-f4f6-a334-e83c92cb5c27 gm-spell">tithey</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> <span class="gm_ gm_d52c8166-2ea5-5e20-d5d7-d835409cbddb gm-spell">sloves</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> Did wire and wimble in the <span class="gm_ gm_a1597e7f-c6fc-9792-7de1-55723cce1e0b gm-spell">gabe</span>;</span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> All <span class="gm_ gm_a33df033-7feb-9db9-441e-0ac4c9ff3ed4 gm-spell">bimsy</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> were the <span class="gm_ gm_78d640fb-e52b-4f3b-3f69-fd309f6e70f3 gm-spell">morogroves</span>,</span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> And the <span class="gm_ gm_72d8bf92-326e-04e6-baf3-70fd915b77fb gm-spell">rome</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> maths grout <span class="gm_ gm_09aeb0c7-d685-aea2-8983-a3ca96689382 gm-spell">abe</span>.</span></span></span><br />
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This Spoonerized version of "Jabberwocky" ©
May 12, 2011 by Richard A. Wales. I performed this on stage at FaerieCon
West in Seattle in February 2013. This was originally presented on my Squidoo.com lens <b><i>Spoonerisms</i></b>, which has since been deleted.</div>
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Other blog posts taken from the Spoonerisms lens, including this one, are:<br />
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<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-toungled-tangs-wixed-up.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Toungled Tangs, Wixed-up Murds</a></li>
<li>Spoonerisms: Wabberjocky by Cewis Larroll</li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-rindercella-and-prandsome.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Rindercella and the Prandsome Hince</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-beeping-sleauty.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Beeping Sleauty</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-druff-magic-pagan.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Druff the Magic Pagan </a></li>
</ul>
MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-87026879777262482292014-02-15T11:16:00.000-08:002014-02-15T11:50:03.098-08:00Spoonerisms: Rindercella and the Prandsome Hince<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Tunce</span><span class="gmw_"> upon a </span></span>wime<span class="gmw_"> in a corin<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span><span class="gmw_">funtry</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> there was a </span></span><span class="gmw_">cuge</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> hassle, home of a </span></span><span class="gmw_">prandsome</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">hince</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> who was a </span></span><span class="gmw_">bonely</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">lachelor</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">. He decided it was time he mot </span></span><span class="gmw_">garried</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, so he invited people from riles </span></span><span class="gmw_">amound</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, especially the peach ripple and their </span></span><span class="gmw_">deautiful</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">baughters</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, to a </span></span><span class="gmw_">bancy</span><span class="gmw_"> fess drawl.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l6pyq0N73cc/Uv-MaW0u-cI/AAAAAAAAD_s/JxUt1LA5Zbs/s1600/Spoonerisms-rindercella.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l6pyq0N73cc/Uv-MaW0u-cI/AAAAAAAAD_s/JxUt1LA5Zbs/s1600/Spoonerisms-rindercella.jpg" title=" " /></a><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">One of the invitations went to the hig</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> bouse in a tittle lown</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> where Rindercella lived with her micked</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> wepstother</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and her two sisty</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> uglers</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">. Rindercella was a bavishing</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> rooty</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, which made the sisty</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> uglers</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and the micked</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> wepstother</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, who had a face that could clop a stock, jerry vellous</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">. They made Rindercella wear rirty</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> dags</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, and she had to do all the worty</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> dirk ahound</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> the rouse. She had to flop the mores, dosh</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> the wishes, solish</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> the pilver</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, loo the daundry</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and feen</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> the pliercase</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, which got her covered in sashes and oot. That's how she not her game.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Of course, when the </span><span class="gmw_">micked</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">wepstother</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and the </span></span><span class="gmw_">sisty</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">uglers</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> awe the </span></span><span class="gmw_">sinvitation</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, they </span></span><span class="gmw_">shent</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> whopping for goo nouns, but they told Rindercella she couldn't go to the </span></span><span class="gmw_">bancy</span><span class="gmw_"> fess drawl.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">"You stay home and chew the doors," said the </span><span class="gmw_">micked</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">wepstother</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">. They went boff to the all, while Rindercella, with ears in her ties which went </span></span><span class="gmw_">chunning</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> down her reeks, tried to who the </span></span><span class="gmw_">dousework</span><span class="gmw_">.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Suddenly there was a </span><span class="gmw_">linding</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> bash of flight, and a </span></span><span class="gmw_">gary</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">modfother</span><span class="gmw_"> appeared before Rindercella.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">"Cry are you </span><span class="gmw_">whying</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, Rindercella?" asked the </span></span><span class="gmw_">gary</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">modfother</span><span class="gmw_">.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">"Oh, </span><span class="gmw_">hoo</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> boo! My </span></span><span class="gmw_">micked</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">wepstother</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and </span></span><span class="gmw_">sisty</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">uglers</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> went to the </span></span><span class="gmw_">prandsome</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">hince</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">'s</span><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">bancy</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> fess drawl and made me hay </span></span><span class="gmw_">stome</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">," Rindercella mailed </span></span><span class="gmw_">wournfully</span><span class="gmw_">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AqIlOctZ77o/Uv-dB5a4ESI/AAAAAAAAEBE/SaZ1GqJHg6o/s1600/Cinderella2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AqIlOctZ77o/Uv-dB5a4ESI/AAAAAAAAEBE/SaZ1GqJHg6o/s1600/Cinderella2.gif" title=" " /></a><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">"Well, crop stying," said the </span><span class="gmw_">gary</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">modfother</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">. "You shall bo to the gall!" She waved her </span></span><span class="gmw_">wagic</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">mond</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, and Rindercella's </span></span><span class="gmw_">rirty</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">dags</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> were burned into a </span></span><span class="gmw_">gootiful</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> town, she had a </span></span><span class="gmw_">tanfastic</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">dairhoo</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and on her feet </span></span><span class="gmw_">were do</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span></span><span class="gmw_">tainty</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> sass </span></span><span class="gmw_">glippers</span><span class="gmw_">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">The </span><span class="gmw_">gary</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">modfother</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> led Rindercella into the garden. With another wove of her </span></span><span class="gmw_">waind</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, she turned a pig bumpkin into a </span></span><span class="gmw_">cootiful</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">boach</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, and the </span></span><span class="gmw_">mield</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> fice into four </span></span><span class="gmw_">hite</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">worses</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and two </span></span><span class="gmw_">candsome</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">hoachmen</span><span class="gmw_">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">"There, Rindercella," sea shed, "now you can bo to the gall. But you must be </span><span class="gmw_">mome</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> before </span></span><span class="gmw_">hidnight</span><span class="gmw_"> when the well spares off."</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Rindercella caught into the </span><span class="gmw_">goach</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, </span></span><span class="gmw_">thofusely</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> pranked the </span></span><span class="gmw_">gary</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">modfother</span><span class="gmw_"> and bent to the wall.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">When the </span><span class="gmw_">prandsome</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">hince</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> rotted Spindercella, it was </span></span><span class="gmw_">sove</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> at </span></span><span class="gmw_">lirst</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> fight. They </span></span><span class="gmw_">nanced</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> the </span></span><span class="gmw_">dight</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> away, and Rindercella had </span></span><span class="gmw_">hever</span><span class="gmw_"> been nappier.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">All sue tune, the </span><span class="gmw_">strock</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> cluck </span></span><span class="gmw_">nidmight</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">. </span>Rindercella<span class="gmw_">, with a </span></span><span class="gmw_">lanicky</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">pook</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> in her eyes, </span></span><span class="gmw_">rurned</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and tan from the </span></span><span class="gmw_">prandsome</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">hince</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">. She ran out of the </span></span><span class="gmw_">cuge</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> hassle, and as she reached the </span></span><span class="gmw_">stottom</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> of the </span></span><span class="gmw_">beps</span><span class="gmw_">, she slopped her dripper.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">The </span><span class="gmw_">prandsome</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">hince</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> ran after her, but he was slew tow. He spotted the </span></span><span class="gmw_">glainty</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> sass dipper on the steps, and </span></span><span class="gmw_">fowed</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> to </span></span><span class="gmw_">vined</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> the </span></span><span class="gmw_">droman</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> of his </span></span><span class="gmw_">weams</span><span class="gmw_">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">The </span><span class="gmw_">dext</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> nay, he went from house to house (and you can't turn that around!) asking women to sly on the tripper. But it </span>fidn't<span class="gmw_"> dit any of them. The </span></span><span class="gmw_">fince</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> was getting </span></span><span class="gmw_">prustrated</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, and the </span></span><span class="gmw_">pownsteople</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">were</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span></span><span class="gmw_">tharting</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> to stink he had a </span></span><span class="gmw_">fet</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">footish</span><span class="gmw_">.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Date in the lay, he </span><span class="gmw_">rinally</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">feached</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> the house where Rindercella lived. He </span></span><span class="gmw_">slied</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> the tripper on the </span></span><span class="gmw_">micked</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">wepstother</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, and of course it </span>fidn't<span class="gmw_"> dit. It fidn't<span class="gmw_"> dit on the </span></span></span><span class="gmw_">sisty</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">uglers</span><span class="gmw_"> either (they all had fig beet).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Then he </span><span class="gmw_">ried</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> Spindercella, </span></span><span class="gmw_">ressed</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> in drags as usual. "</span>Thoo is hat?" he asked.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">"Oh, that's just Rindercella," said a </span><span class="gmw_">sisty</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">ugler</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">. "She doesn't have any </span></span><span class="gmw_">drancy</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">fesses</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, so she didn't </span></span><span class="gmw_">abend</span><span class="gmw_"> the tall."</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">"Come here, Rindercella," </span><span class="gmw_">ped</span><span class="gmw_"> the since, "and sly on the tripper."</span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">She did, and the </span><span class="gmw_">pipper</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> slitted </span></span><span class="gmw_">ferfectly</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">! So the </span></span><span class="gmw_">prandsome</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">hince</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> masked her to </span></span><span class="gmw_">arry</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> him. "Of </span></span><span class="gmw_">woarse</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> I kill," she replied. They mot </span></span><span class="gmw_">garried</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and </span></span><span class="gmw_">happed</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">livelly</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> after ever. They had coo </span></span><span class="gmw_">tids</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, a </span></span><span class="gmw_">bandsome</span><span class="gmw_"> hoy and a gritty pearl.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">The </span><span class="gmw_">storal</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> of the </span></span><span class="gmw_">mory</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">: If you want to marry your </span></span><span class="gmw_">prandsome</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> </span></span><span class="gmw_">hince</span><span class="gmw_">, be sure to slop your dripper.</span></span><br />
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<i><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Note: My version of Rindercella<span class="gmw_"> owes a debt of gratitude to others who have Toonerized the </span></span><span class="gmw_">spale</span><span class="gmw_">. I couldn't resist including Archie Campbell's "slopped her dripper," and the bit about not being able to turn around "house to house" comes from Jack Ross' 45 rpm novelty record released in 1962. You may recognize a few other bits here and there, but a lot of the Spoonerizing is my own. This was originally part of my Squidoo.com lens </span><b>Spoonerisms</b>, which has since been deleted.</span></i><br />
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Other blog posts taken from the Spoonerisms lens, including this one, are:<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-toungled-tangs-wixed-up.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Toungled Tangs, Wixed-up Murds</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-wabberjocky-by-cewis-larroll.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Wabberjocky by Cewis Larroll</a></li>
<li>Spoonerisms: Rindercella and the Prandsome Hince</li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-beeping-sleauty.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Beeping Sleauty</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-druff-magic-pagan.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Druff the Magic Pagan </a></li>
</ul>
MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-36979443615941946772014-02-15T11:13:00.000-08:002014-02-15T11:50:22.277-08:00Spoonerisms: Beeping Sleauty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A tong lime ago there was a kittle luntry cooled by a ring and his quootiful bean. When the bean gave quirth to a beat swittle gaby lurl, they had their chord ligh hamberlain invite all the ducks and doochesses, the dobles and names, and the eight mary fodgothers to the christening. Chut the bamberlain made a stig misbake and didn't invite the really tad bempered mary fodgother.<br />
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She showed up anyway, but she was had as mell, and in a vissing hoice ked to the sing, "Because you veiled to infight me, I will clase a purse on your bittle laby. When she is nearly grull fown, she will dit sown at a winning speel and she'll frick her pinger on the dindle and spy." Then she wovved her waind over the craby's bib, and heft in a luff.<br />
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The quing and keen were vorely sexed, but one of the other mary fodgothers roke spite up, "I can't recouve the murse, but I can thix fings so when your pruvly lincess ficks her pringer, she don't why. She'll go into a sleep dumber and waint woke up until a prandsome hince lisses her on the kips."<br />
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The quing and keen chook no tances. They had all the winning speels in the bingdom kerned. For the next yeventeen sears they had all their porn inyarted. The grincess prew into the grittiest pearl in the kittle lingdom.<br />
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Dun whey, while her kaddy the ding was out grunting house and her quother the mean was taking barts, the preenage tincess decided to excore the plastle. She dopened an oar that ted to a lower and stimbed the clairs. As she stimbed the cleps, she heard a summing hound that lew grouder. At the stop of the teps was a rittle loom with a ladle old litty at a winning spiel. The provely lincess asked the ladle old litty dut she was wooing. "I'm winning sparn out of yule," was the answer. "Would you trike to lie?" So the sincess stat on the prool. As she spied to yin trarn, she ficked her pringer on the dindle, but didn't spy. Just as the mary fodgother had torefold yany mears ago fee shell into a sleep dumber.<br />
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Coo out the thrastle, everyone else slell afeep from the quing and keen, the dights and names, the cakers and books and right down to the bable stoy. And outside, a horny gredge threw up. Nobody kentered the astle for a yundred hears.<br />
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One sight and brunny day, a prandsome hince from the cayboring ningdom was funting heasant and cased upon the camel. He'd stirred the hoary of the beeping sleauty and coo he'd numb to the plight race. He sook out his tword and wacked his hay who the thredge. He rooked alound and prame upon the kincess. He'd never seen such a bavishing rooty. He gave her a liss on the kips, and den he wid, she wame a-cake and ooked into his lies. They lell in fove instantly. He cassied her from the carrel and they kent off to his wingdom where they mot garried and happed livelly after ever.<br />
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So be careful around winning speels. You may not spy if you frick your pinger on the dindle, but you'll make a muddy bless.<br />
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<i>This tairy fale was originally part of my Squidoo.com lens <b>Spoonerisms</b>, which has since been deleted. </i><br />
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Other blog posts taken from the Spoonerisms lens, including this one, are:<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-toungled-tangs-wixed-up.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Toungled Tangs, Wixed-up Murds</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-wabberjocky-by-cewis-larroll.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Wabberjocky by Cewis Larroll</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-rindercella-and-prandsome.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Rindercella and the Prandsome Hince</a></li>
<li>Spoonerisms: Beeping Sleauty</li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-druff-magic-pagan.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Druff the Magic Pagan </a></li>
</ul>
MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-78889893353920667742014-02-15T11:09:00.000-08:002014-02-15T11:48:39.024-08:00Spoonerisms: Druff the Magic PaganA Sildren's Chong<br />
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Druff the magic pagan sieved by the lea<br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> And mollicked</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> in the autumn frist in a hand called Lonah Hee,</span></span></span></span><br />
Little Packie Japer loved that pascal Ruff,<br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">And strought</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> him brings and wealing</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> sax and other stancy</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> fuff, oh</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Druff the magic pagan sieved by the lea<br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">And mollicked</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> in the autmn</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> frist in a hand called Lonah Hee,</span></span></span></span></span><br />
Druff the magic pagan sieved by the lea<br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">And mollicked</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> in the autmn<span class="gmw_"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="gmw_">frist in a hand called Lonah Hee.</span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Together they would bavel</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> on a troat with sillowed bail</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Jackie lept a cookout perched on Tuff's gigantic pail,</span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Noble prings</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> and kinces</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> would wow bene'er they came,</span></span></span></span></span><br />
Shirate pips would flower their lags when Ruff poured out his name, oh!<br />
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Druff the magic pagan sieved by the lea<br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">And mollicked</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> in the autmn</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> frist in a hand called Lonah Hee,</span></span></span></span></span><br />
Druff the magic pagan sieved by the lea<br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">And mollicked</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> in the autmn</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> frist in a hand called Lonah Hee,</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">A lagon</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> drivs</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> forever but not so bittle</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> loys</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Wainted pings and riant jings</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> wake may for tother</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> oys.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">One ney</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> gright it happened, Packie Japer maim no core</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">And Druff that mighty pagan, he </span></span></span><span class="gmw_">reased</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> his searless fore.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">His bed was sent in horrow</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">, sceen</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> grales</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> rell like fain,</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Luff no ponger</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> plent</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> to way along the lerry chain.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_">Without his life-frong lend, Bruff could not be pave,</span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">So Druff that mighty pagan sadly </span></span><span class="gmw_">kipped into his slave, oh!</span></span><br />
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<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Druff the magic pagan sived by the lea</span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">And mollicked</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> in the autmn</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> frist in a hand called Lonah Hee,</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">Druff the magic pagan sived by the lea</span></span><br />
<span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">And mollicked</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> in the autmn</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> frist in a hand called Lonah Hee.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<i><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">I know it probably should be "Druff the Magic Pagon" but "pagan" works better. Allow me a bit of loetic</span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> picense.</span></span></span></span></i><br />
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"Puff the Magic Dragon" was written as a poem in 1959 by Cornell student
Leonard Lipton, who showed it to fellow student Peter Yarrow. Yarrow
added additional words and music. The song was a hit for Peter Paul and
Mary in 1963. More about the song is at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff,_the_Magic_Dragon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>.<br />
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When the song became a hit, Peter Yarrow sought out Lipton to share the
royalties with him. Lipton went on to become the lead inventor of modern
3D technology in both movies and television. He credits royalties from
"Puff" for financing his work in electronic stereoscopic displays. He
wrote <a href="http://lennylipton.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/thank-you-puff-the-magic-dragon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a blog post about it</a> in 2009. I recommend reading it and thinking about Lipton and Puff the next time you see a 3D movie.<br />
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Yarrow and Lipton didn't authorize a book about Puff for many years, but a picture book of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1402747829/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1402747829&linkCode=as2&tag=hapuwitr-20">Puff, the Magic Dragon</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=hapuwitr-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1402747829" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> was authorized and published in 2007. Click on the title to go to the Amazon.com page.
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<i><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">This toonerized</span></span><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_"> spong was originally presented on my Squidoo.com lens </span></span></span></span><b>Spoonerisms</b>, which has since been deleted. </span></span></i><br />
<br />
Other blog posts taken from the Spoonerisms lens, including this one, are:<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-toungled-tangs-wixed-up.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Toungled Tangs, Wixed-up Murds</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-wabberjocky-by-cewis-larroll.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Wabberjocky by Cewis Larroll</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-rindercella-and-prandsome.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Rindercella and the Prandsome Hince</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mobydsoundings.blogspot.com/2014/02/spoonerisms-beeping-sleauty.html" target="_blank">Spoonerisms: Beeping Sleauty</a></li>
<li>Spoonerisms: Druff the Magic Pagan </li>
</ul>
MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-59221302373042516892012-07-24T20:52:00.000-07:002012-07-24T20:52:08.582-07:00The Luggage - Almost DoneThe Luggage turned out to be a much bigger project than I first imagined. With so many different things coming together that one might not expect to go together, it's meant a lot a making up things as I went along. I changed my mind about wheels, for instance, several times, but I'm happy I ended up with big ones. Just the way they handle the entry between my little deck and inside over the sliding door frame, I'm not expecting much trouble with the terrain at Faerieworlds.<br />
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In the past few days, after putting the teeth in, I've worked on getting the red webbing placed. I thought 10 yards of it would be more than enough, but I was wrong and just found that out this afternoon. I had to make a quick trip to Fabric Depot for two more yards and I also picked up two more packets of fabric nails. I probably should have gotten four packets or 96 in all because I still ran a little short. But I did find some leftovers from several years ago that aren't too different, so I did some filling in with them.<br />
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Next came the legs and feet, which I'd cut out over Sunday and Monday. I had gotten some black batting originally intended to be used with the black wizard robe to hide the wires for the lights, but I ended up using black Duck Tape. (That's its name - I know the stuff is really duct tape, but this brand comes in colors and patterns.) So I did some measuring and cutting. I couldn't put it all along the side because the front wheels turn out beyond the sides. So I cut the batting so it wouldn't get hit by the wheel in front. While placing the legs on with glue, I found that only four sets of legs instead of five would fit on the batting without overlapping. So I used the fifth set to see about attaching a partly cut photo to the front wheel. With some experimenting, cutting, and getting Super Glue on my fingers again, I was able to attach it. I hope it stays. I'm hoping all the feet survive the weekend.<br />
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I still have to put on the legs, feet and batting on the other side, but at least I did enough for the photo. After that, all it needs is something for towing around.<br />
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More costume work after posting this, and I hope I get everything done by late afternoon tomorrow so I can assemble everything for Thursday morning's loading.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-27680958252002344862012-07-21T17:46:00.000-07:002012-07-21T17:46:04.034-07:00Scaling back a little<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been looking at the stuff to be done and frankly, there's more than I can do before I will have to gather everything together on Wednesday for loading the car Thursday morning. So I'm scaling back a bit. I'm not feeling disap-pointed, I'm just feeling realistic about the time left and my own procrastinating habits.<br />
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The Luggage is coming along nicely and I can finish it on time. I think it's going to look pretty good. I've got the feet and legs photos to put on, the red webbing, and something for the interior.<br />
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The costumes need a little tweaking, but they'll be done as well. I've already put one set of lights on the faerie/wizard hat I've worn for the past few years, and I've got some lights on the black wizard robe with more to come. I have four stovepipe hats to steampunkify and I'm sure I can get those done. They'll be simpler than the 4-clock hat I made a couple of years ago. Got all the parts, just need to bring them together.<br />
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Where I'm scaling back is the faerie vardos and houses. If I can get all the other stuff done and still have time for them, I might work more on them, but basically I think they'll be for the future. I'm concerned they're not developing well enough at this point to look saleable and might even detract from the Three Moons Emporium booth. I do not want to sell junk.<br />
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I am definitely interested in keeping up with craft stuff after Faerieworlds. I did craft shows back in the '70s when I made clocks that incorporated string art designs. So for next year's Faerieworlds, I think I'll have something that looks like people would want to put in their homes or maybe outside in their yards.<br />
More time was spent thinking than doing, but all the thinking will, I believe, bring results, just not in time for Faerieworlds. I have lots of ideas for faerie houses based on stuff I've seen, including the site <a href="http://www.fairywoodland.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Enchanted World of Fairy Woodland</a>, which is where the photo at left is from. I got their DVD last year and while I want to develop my own method of construction, there are lots of great ideas there. It would be nice to go to one of their workshops, but without a car I don't know if that's practical. It's very appealing, so perhaps I can find a way to attend one. Their main page features a fairy house with a clock. I'd love to make fairy houses with clocks.<br />
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Well, I still have lots to do, so I'd better get to it!MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-53033168695636992292012-07-21T14:34:00.000-07:002012-07-24T20:41:20.890-07:00FEET!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s-m-6Ebw6qE/UAsdLyitLrI/AAAAAAAACPo/f09CgbC5EEw/s1600/legs+with+socks+-+left.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s-m-6Ebw6qE/UAsdLyitLrI/AAAAAAAACPo/f09CgbC5EEw/s320/legs+with+socks+-+left.jpg" width="213" /></a>I have an HP "Photosmart" printer. It has worked very well for normal needs requiring 8 1/2" x 11" paper. One thing this printer called "Photosmart" isn't very good at is actually printing photos. First off, it won't print a 4x6 photo from the computer. It keeps claiming a size mismatch and jams. So I remembered from doing the 2FLOWR license plate I had to transfer the files to an SD card and put that card in the printer. With the license plate it worked well enough that after a few tries I got what I wanted.<br />
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This time, however, I wanted to print a pair of legs with the feet in colorful socks. Even after I remembered about putting the pics on the SD card, it still jammed several times running. Finally I decided to give it one last try. It actually printed, but cut off one heel and the toes on the other foot.<br />
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Nope, jam, jam, jam.<br />
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Forget it. Not being a particular fan of frustration, I decided to go up the street to Walgreens with my SD card. I needed bread and TP anyway.<br />
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Walgreens was a much better experience, at least so far. Their photo printing computer was very easy to use. I've never used it before but had very little trouble figuring it out. I ordered 10 of the two images in this post. Fortunately I had realized early in my planning that any image that went on one side would have to be reversed for the other if I wanted all the feet facing the right way.<br />
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The photos should be ready in about 15 minutes or so. Maybe I'll give it a little extra time. It cost me $5.80. I haven't decided whether I should cut the image out from the background or just leave the white there. I'll be mounting them in a piece of black cloth which will help hide the wheels a bit although not completely. The front wheels, being on rotating casters, stick out on one side or the other during turns.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-28505935797740284262012-07-20T20:43:00.000-07:002012-07-20T20:43:24.461-07:00TEETH!I haven't been posting much on progress toward getting ready for Faerieworlds, partly because I've no amateur crastinator, I'm a pro. Also I've been doing a little of this, a little of that, but not, frankly, enough so far.<br />
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Today, at least has been different, as it had to be with only six days to get everything together. That's counting through Wednesday. Thursday morning I pick up the rental car, load up and head to Faerieworlds to help set up Three Moons Emporium's booth near the gate between the main field and the Inner Circle camping area.<br />
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Today was devoted to giving The Luggage it's teeth. As one of the little things I'd done earlier, I'd shaped a bunch of craft sticks by giving each end a point. The plan was to cut them in two later, so each stick = two teeth. They were very sharp, though, and I was concerned about installing them that way.<br />
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Today one of the first things I did was cut off and sand the points so I wouldn't impale myself (or some inquisitive kid) on the points. I'd figured out how to mount them, generally, and today worked out the specifics.<br />
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I'd bought six cheap covered wagon kits for the wheels for the faerie vardos. Left over were 18 pieces of wood for the wagon sides. I had just about enough to use four sets of two of them glued together to attach to the inside of The Luggage about an inch below the top of the front side. I also used four more wagon sides to glued to the top of the lid. I had discovered I would need to offset the teeth instead of just gluing them inside the lid because they'd hit the side when they came down. With the four small boards, the top teeth cleared the front nicely.<br />
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The bottom teeth needed the two small boards time four so the top teeth would overlap the bottom teeth. That worked nicely on the left side where I started gluing bottom teeth, but not so great on the right side. The lid alignment is off just enough to make the top and bottom teeth hit. I found that by gluing another craft stick between the eight right teeth and the two wagon sides, things worked much better. Guess that's to be expected with the inexact art of bodgering - the trunk was never meant to have teeth. Or wheels, either.<br />
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So there it is, with freshly-painted teeth done with antique white acrylic paint. That's a piece of 2x4 holding the lid up to show both sets of teeth. I think they came out nice and kind of ragged, which is what I was going for. The flash probably makes the teeth look a bit whiter than they really are.<br />
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Next I need to add the red webbing, then get something to use as a rope to pull it along.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-53971412253684220472012-07-17T18:31:00.000-07:002012-07-17T18:34:00.113-07:00The Legend of the Map - Faerieworlds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today on the Faerieworlds Facebook page, Sylver asked if there was a list of vendors for this year's event. I had just posted <a href="http://faerieworlds.com/sponsors-vendors/exhibitors/" target="_blank">a link to that list</a> along with a link to <a href="http://www.faerieworlds.com/FW2012-MAP.jpg" target="_blank">the map</a> showing where vendors, stages, etc. will be located. So I meant to post the exhibitor list, but first posted the map link instead, that being the last URL I'd copied. I realized I hadn't posted the right answer, and was correcting it when Sylver posted another comment in the thread: "Is there a legend to that map?" After posting the exhibitor list, I got to thinking about his question in another sense than he meant it. This was the result:<br />
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<b>The Legend of the Map </b><br />
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Many years ago, in the far-off land of Arizona, a group of fae folk known as Woodland made music. Being a sharing folk, they used arcane methods to put their music on a magical disk, The Disk of CeeDee. This magical Disk of CeeDee was called "Twilight" - a title later stolen by the scribing Witch of Forks for her stories about sparkling vampires. <br />
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This magical Disk of CeeDee was made even more enchanted when Woodland entreated the illustrious faerie artist in the Land of Devon across the Great Ocean for the use of his faerie painting "The Faerie Who Was Kissed by the Pixies." Brian of Froud, being a kind and generous sort, granted this boon to Woodland.<br />
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The Woodland fae made it known to friends of faeries in their region of the land of Arizona that their magical Disk of CeeDee would be released unto the world on a certain date. On that momentous occasion, Robert of Gould, he of the City of Angeles and representative on this side of the Great Ocean for Brian of Froud, contacted Emilio of Miller-Lopez and his enchantress, Kelly, to enquire as to progress of the event.<br />
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"Robert!" Emilio cried, "There's over two hundred people in faerie costumes outside and I've never met any of them! Thus was the idea of a special celebration of fae folk and their friends born. This celebration came to be known far and wide as Faerieworlds.<br />
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Not long after, the fae folk of Woodland left the land of Arizona for the land of much Winter rain and abundant Summer Sun known as Oregon. Faerieworlds opened the door between the Fae and the Humans in an enchanted place known to Humans as Horning's Hideout. The Faerieworlds door opened for two days in the year of 2004.<br />
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The next manifestation of Faerieworlds happened in the Summer of 2005 near another enchanted place, the site of the Oregon Country Fair, itself known for attracting magickal and fae folks. For four Summers, the Winery of the Secret House, which, despite it's name, was well-known among both Humans and Fae, was the site of the annual Faerieworlds celebration. It expanded to three days in 2008.<br />
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Alas, the Winery was unable to host the fae celebration in 2009, but with the cooperation of the good folk in the County of Lane, Faerieworlds swiftly relocated to the Enchanted Arboretum of Mount Pisgah, where revelers were able to erect their temporary domes of pleasure and rest for the three days of merry-making. In 2010, a Stone Circle consisting of eight Standing Stones, each representing a Celtic Feast Day, appeared in the field, signifying that the Fae and their Human friends intended to create their magickal world for three enchanting and entrancing day each glorious Summer.<br />
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Through the magic of the Tubes of Inter, a Great Map of Faerieworlds was born to assist Humans in navigating their way amongst the purveyors of clothing, faerie art, and wondrous foodstuffs while magickal and enchanted performers of music, including Woodland, kept the spirits of the fae revelry alive.<br />
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The Fae and their Human friends will gather at the Enchanted Arboretum of Mount Pisgah near Eugene, Oregon from Friday the 27th of August through Sunday the 29th.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-73585101375162640752012-07-12T12:06:00.002-07:002012-07-12T12:31:33.841-07:00Where I'll Be at Faerieworlds 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just did a bit of poking around on the Faerieworlds website to see if the site map had been updated (the actual layout of the area, not the website map). I found the 2012 map<b> <a href="http://faerieworlds.com/FW2012-MAP.jpg" target="_blank">here</a></b> - Three Moons Emporium is booth #2219. It's in the lower left corner of the magenta area on the left, putting it just outside the gate between the main area and Inner Circle camping. There should be a lot of people going back and forth by the booth, which is good as long as they stop by now and then. I'm not sure what the white square at the gate is for. I think at one time it was going to be the big pyramid, but I think that has been relocated.<br />
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In two weeks I'll be there and I still have a lot of stuff to do. Gotta get off the Intertoobs more and make stuff. I have got a couple of strings of battery-powered lights on my black wizard robe for wearing after sunset. It needs two more strings, one for each cuff (they're six feet around!) and a couple of strings for the wizard hat with all the faeries. They're excited about that! That's high on my agenda for today, along with a few modifications to the Sorting Hat and the Jedi robe for the Rincewind outfit. The bucket hat arrived last week and I've been wearing it when I go out. It's comfortable and keeps the Sun off my head.<br />
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Beca, the person in charge of Three Moons Emporium is from the Seattle area. She had thought until today that she'd be taking the train to Portland and a bus to Eugene. I'd offered to meet her at the train station in Portland. But friends of hers have room for her and her stuff, so I'll see her in the Realm two weeks from today. That will, of course, work out far better for her.<br />
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Since the booth is at a corner, I hope I'll have room for my tent fairly near to the booth. I got a 25' extension cord to run from the booth to the tent and I'll have colored lights strung on the tent. <br />
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I've been thinking beyond Faerieworlds for craft
stuff - faerie houses, faerie vardos, steampunk hats, etc. I may put
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Off for a bit more shopping. They're supposed to be turning off the water for a few hours around now, so it'll be prudent not to be here. I've never lived in a place where the water has been turned off so often, but then, I've lived here continuously longer than anywhere else since 1970.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-83660462364748948792012-07-08T23:03:00.000-07:002012-07-08T23:03:21.984-07:00Music for Celtic Faeries and Friends<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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A couple of weeks ago, one of my Facebook friends, Sylver, who is also a member of A Circle of Merry Folk, made a mix on MixCloud for folks to listen to as they make preparations for Faerieworlds. I thought about all the music I have and have written about and thought it might be fun to make my own mix. After all, I was once host of a couple of folk shows on WICN, a public radio station in Worcester, MA.<br />
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I've been busy with my own FW preparations, but I did join MixCloud back after I had listened to some of Sylver's "Crispy Crow Radio." Even without having uploaded a mix, I got four followers. Seemed like I should put together something and upload it. (The caption under the photo is a link to the results. Why not listen while you read?)<br />
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Fortunately, one of the programs MixCloud recommends for creating mixes is Audacity and it come in a Linux version. I didn't know a whole lot about it, but this morning I plunged in to put something together. It ended up taking most of the day. Choosing the music was the easiest part. Figuring out how to add stuff and arrange it so it didn't all play at once took a little learning. Quite frankly, Audacity's Help wasn't much help at all. I found myself searching the Intertoobs to get my questions answered. But I muddled through and learned how to timeshift selections and position them so they flow pretty evenly with no big gaps.<br />
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Some of the files I used were off of YouTube, including <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFOUh6XiCNE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chiftitelli by Adam Hurst</a>, the resident Gypsy Cello player of Faerieworlds. It was only uploaded by Adam on June 18 and I really wanted to include it, so I had to find out about using YouTube sound. More learning.<br />
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Eventually I got 24 tracks of music from Faerieworlds performers and other Celtic performers I like. I thought I had everything in the right place, so then it was off to the Intertoobs again to figure out how to upload the results to MixCloud. Their Help wasn't very informative either, but I realized I had to convert the whole mix into one MP3 file. Once I figure out how to get that going, it looked like it was going to take nearly three hours. In the end, it took less time.<br />
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Ready to upload? Well, I thought so. So I uploaded the big file. While it was uploading, I created a list of the tracks. Now, if I really knew what I was doing, each track, while being played, would be highlighted. But the option of marking where one track ends and another starts later was offered, so I passed for now. With a few more bits of info filled in, and with the upload finished while I was creating the track list, I was ready to listen.<br />
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So, I sent a tweet about it, then used the link in it to start my first mix. The first few tracks went through just fine. Then suddenly there was this big silence. A really big silence. Then the next track started. To make matters worse, partway through that track, the track that was supposed to follow it started. Uh-oh.<br />
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I went back to Audacity and saw that those files I thought I'd so carefully arranged had gotten moved around. So I stopped the mix, deleted my tweet and the Facebook message the tweet had created and figured out how to delete the mix from MixCloud.<br />
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Back to Audacity, where I had to do quite a bit of timeshifting. I figured out how to select every track from the first misplaced one to the end and shifted the whole lot. The next time I found a misplaced track, I tried it again, but for some reason only the first file I wanted to move moved. I don't know why. From then on I moved them individually, attempting to place them so they'd flow pretty well. After I got them moved, I sampled the end of a selection with the beginning of the next all the way back to the beginning. To my old radio host ears, it wasn't bad although one of two transitions could've used improvement, but I'd been at it for hours and any gaps were small. Many tracks include a few seconds of silence at the end, and I got most of that overlapped with the next track. Then I saved the file and double-checked. Then it was time to upload the MP3 file again and recreate the track list, which went much easier the second time, of course.<br />
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I could've done without having to basically recreate the file placement and uploading, but I did learn more stuff during that part. I've been listening to the results as I've been typing this. Nearly halfway through and so far so good.<br />
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I may not do any more mixes until after Faerieworlds, but at least I have something up on MixCloud.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-64457665944098651982012-07-08T22:17:00.001-07:002012-07-08T22:17:42.339-07:00Still More Stuff, More BodgeringCraft Warehouse had coupons for Monday through Friday this week for 40% off one item each day and 50% off one item on Wednesday. The only day I didn't go was Tuesday. I've kept finding things, so it has been worth the trips. After yesterday, I thought it might be a while before I'd return, but with a change in plans, I made a trip today.<br />
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Earlier I had gotten two sets of small wheels at $2.97 a set to be used for the faerie vardos. Another alternative was to buy a small covered wagon kit for $2.99 each which included four spoked wheels. With a difference of $5.94 vs. $17.94, I went for the less expensive option. During the week Bill Cass, a puppeter from Washington state, uploaded <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3757755220716.2144439.1181550402&type=3" target="_blank">some pictures of a wagon/vardo</a> he'd made to serve as a mobile stage for Nymbolnuts, his main puppet character and his friends. It got me to thinking that the small wheels I'd gotten just weren't right. So late this morning I got the packages and went back to Craft Warehouse, where I returned them and instead got six covered wagon kits.<br />
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I'm mainly interested in the wheels, of course, but some of the other parts will be useful, if not on the faerie vardos then somewhere else. I'd gotten some 1/4" dowels for axles. I'd also gotten some decorative nails for use on The Luggage. Turns out that sticking them through the holes in the center of the wheels and then into the end of a piece of dowel works out great getting the wheels set up to attach to the vardo. The dowel/axle and the nail/hub don't rotate, but the wheels do. The fancy brass nail heads look pretty good on the spoked wheels, and they'll probably look better once the wheels get painted. I cut a couple of small pieces of the kit (the metal-handled knife is pointing at one in the picture) into two. I'll glue those to the axles and then to the bottom of the vardo.<br />
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I just did a little measuring on a couple of the faeries on the wizard hat and realized these faerie vardos are scaled just about right for them. I wonder if I'll be able to find any more of the same kind of faeries anywhere. It's been a few years since I got them. After some searching online, none of my faeries showed up, but of course there are probably thousands of different ones available.<br />
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[Much, much later] Sheesh! I wrote this on Saturday. Here it is late Sunday and I find I never published it. CRS at work. <br />
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I set off again intending to get my Tri-Met pass from the MAX stop across the street (easily done), then walk to the bus stop about 1/4 mile south to go to Harbor Freight for tools to make faerie house windows, get a free flashlight, and cheap tarp and see what else I might find. I'd cut some coupons from the <i>AARP Bulletin</i> for this purpose. But as I approached the bus stop, at just a bit to far to try hurrying up to catch it, the eastbound bus went by. So I then decided I'd wait for the bus in the other direction to go to Home Depot to get the nuts and bolt. That bus didn't take long to come and I didn't spend a lot of time in HD. I found the nuts, the bolt and a couple of eye bolts to attach a rope for pulling The Luggage.<br />
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I went back up to catch the same bus line in the eastbound direction. Something must've happened to a bus because it took nearly half an hour of waiting before one came. Meanwhile I saw two buses for another line cross the intersection to the west and I'm pretty sure they run at the same frequency. The bus the eventually came was full as though that one bus was carrying the load of two. It's about a seven mile ride, so along with the wait, there was the time involved just getting out to Harbor Freight.<br />
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Once there, I got everything mentioned above plus a short 32-LED flashlight that I may try to see if I can mount on my staff between its top and the glass crystal I mounted atop it several years ago. The idea is to have the light shine up from the flat side and refract all over. I'll have to take things apart to see what the effect will be, then rig up some kind of lever to push on the button at the back of the light which will be against the top of the staff. It may take a bit of bodgering up.<br />
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Just for the exercise, I decided to walk the mile or so down to either another bus line or to the end of the MAX line. So I stopped in across the way at Burgerville, a local chain that is far superior to the national burger chains. I don't do that very often, but I hadn't eaten much so far and it was around 4:30, more than two hours since I'd started out.<br />
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When I got down to Division Street, I realized the bus would have to go into the Gresham Transit Center and then I'd have to pick up another bus of a different line to continue down Division Street heading west to Craft Warehouse to use a coupon for 40% off one item. So instead, I walked and it was a bit more walking than I thought it would be. Once there I got some acrylic gloss sealer for The Luggage and looked around a bit to see what I could get at similar discounts the rest of the week. Since the walk had taken quite a while, it was now 6 o'clock and they had a special of 20% off on the whole purchase from 6 to 8, so I got some foam brushes. I got more than I'd need just for Faerieworlds preparations since I'm thinking of continuing to do craft stuff beyond then.<br />
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So by the time I got back home, I was (and am) pretty tired. I made sure the nuts would work on the bolts, loosely spun them on and tightened a few, but the body isn't liking a lot of bending over right now.<br />
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Tomorrow I'll try to get an earlier start to things. I may go back to Craft Warehouse. I was a bit disappointed to realize that the moss sheets I thought I'd buy there are actually something sold at JoAnn's. I was hoping to pick up some at a nice discount, but no such luck, I guess.<br />
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Earlier to bed than usual tonight, although as always around the 4th, the neighborhood sounds like a war zone and probably will for at least a couple of hours.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-48344792501671082892012-07-01T21:41:00.000-07:002012-07-01T21:41:00.262-07:00That's How The Luggage RollsAfter yesterday's rainy afternoon, thing have dried out, so I was able to make some more progress with The Luggage. The air was also drier, so the stain finally felt drier as well. The dewpoint doesn't get over 60 degrees much around here, but it did over the last couple of days, preceded by a day or so when it was nearly that high. With the dewpoint back in the lower 50s, working was easier.<br />
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My first job today was to reinforce the bottom of The Luggage with sections of the two 1 x 4s I'd gotten. So I cut four pieces (after measuring twice - I remember some bits of handyman advice at least) to fit lengthwise, using a powered jig saw I hadn't used since the '90s. I applied glue after making sure they all fit - some were a little tight, which was OK. Once the glued boards were in place, I put the wheels on top of them. Since they weigh five pounds each, I thought they'd hold the boards down. I didn't take a picture at that point, so this one to the right shows the boards after the next step.<br />
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After an hour or two, I got the new drill out, took out the wheels, marked the hole positions on the bottom of the overturned Luggage, then began drilling. Maybe I should have waited because getting the holes drilled through turned out to be tougher than I thought. It was probably the glue impeding the drilling, but eventually I got all the holes done.<br />
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I put the wheels in place and threaded the bolts down into the interior. They all went in, although a few took a bit of gentle coaxing with a lightly applied hammer, which did not damage the threads. I flipped The Luggage upright. As expected, a few bolts promptly fell out, but at least one or two for each wheel stayed put. Then I opened packages of wingnuts.<br />
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That's when I realized I hadn't allowed enough clearance between the bolts and the sides for the wingnuts to turn. Oops! But again, I was able to get at least two on per wheel. Looks like I'll be making another trip to Home Depot tomorrow to get some regular nuts. Also I'll need one more bolt because one turned out to be a size smaller than it should've been. As Roseanne Roseannadanna said, "It's always something. If it isn't one thing, it's another." At least this is easily corrected.<br />
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Why wingnuts? The idea was it would be easy to remove the wheels and put them inside The Luggage for transporting in a car. It'll still be possible, but I'll have to make sure I have the right sized wrench handy.<br />
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In spite of the rain in the afternoon, I still got something done earlier yesterday. Craft Warehouse had a two-day sale this weekend, so I got down there early to get some 60% off birdhouses that I want to turn into faerie houses. I got five different types and a couple of other things, then came back home. After checking stuff online, I decided to get them out of the bags.<br />
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One of the birdhouses has a curved roof. It's on the left in the picture to the right. As I took the birdhouses out and found places for them to sit, I took a look at the curved-roof one. Suddenly the word "vardo" came to me. Vardos, if you don't know, are the small wagons the Romani people travel in. I thought of Tricky Pixie's description of their CD <i>Mythcreants</i> - "Gypsy Celtic Folk Rock for Naughty Punk Faeries." Aha! Gypsy faeries!<br />
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With that in mind, I made another trip down to Craft Warehouse to see how many more of those birdhouses they had. At first I only found one and was a little disappointed. There were more with barn-style roofs, but I wasn't all that thrilled about them. Then I looked up and saw two more on a high shelf. I was just able to reach them. After that I saw there were two more behind the ones I'd just retrieved. There were some dowels handy, so I grabbed one, stuck it through the hole in each house and was able to move them forward so I could reach them. Now I have six future gypsy faerie vardos. And less than four weeks to get them ready, along with costume stuff and clock hats. Good thing I'm not working elsewhere for pay!<br />
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Next I asked a clerk if they had miniature wagon wheels. They did, but the spoked ones were rather pricey and I needed either 12 or 24 depending on whether the vardos would have two or four wheels. Then we spotted some slightly smaller wheels that came 12 to a package for $2.97. So I got two packages for 4-wheeled vardos. They're only 1 1/2" in diameter, but they'll look like wheels you might see on a modern vardo. This picture, from the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shirleytwofeathers/2023785232/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Flickr page of Shirley Two Feathers</a>, gives some idea of what I'm going for, although it won't be quite as fancy. Looking at images for vardos, I see my imagination can range quite freely in finishing each one off. Oh yeah, each one will have little Oregon license plates like the one I did for The Luggage. These should get done much faster now that I more or less know what I'm doing. Hmm ... maybe I should've waited until I did them before commenting!<br />
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The weather forecast is looking better from here on out, with only some early showers possible on Tuesday, otherwise it'll be partly cloudy or sunny every day. Looks like the Northwest saying of "It'll be dry by the Fourth of July is going to work again. That's good because I'd like to work out on the little deck more.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-25038796119848488852012-06-29T16:52:00.000-07:002012-06-29T16:52:05.052-07:00The Luggage's License Plate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since The Luggage will have wheels, it is appropriate to give it a license plate. I found an image of an Oregon plate with only two numbers on it that were not overlapping the land areas. It wasn't too hard to create that part using GIMP's clone tool, making sure the water shades matched, and changing the expiration year was pretty simple too.<br />
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Next I decided the plate needed a frame with custom wording on it. I found a frame image and blanked out some type in the middle. Then I had to look up how to make everything in the middle and the edges transparent. Once I got that, the edges of the transparent areas were a bit ragged, so I took some time with the eraser tool with the image blown up to 800 percent.<br />
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The next step was to cover up the existing words on the frame using the clone tool, again relatively simple, then adding my own words, getting the size and centering right.<br />
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I had to resize both images so when I put the license plate layer behind the frame layer, they would match up all right. That was a bit tricky and took some experimenting.<br />
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Next was printing, which turned into a real learning experience. To get better quality and also have the plate printed on something a bit better than plain paper, I decided to use photo paper. I put the paper in properly, but I could not get the file to print on anything but 8.5" x 11" paper. Also, the photo paper kept jamming. Eventually I looked at the printer manual, something I'd found while lifting the printer to get into the back to fish out a piece of photo paper.<br />
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It turned out the only thing the manual said for printing photos was to do it from an SD card like the one that goes in my camera. So I put the card in the computer slot and copied the file. I thought it was the right size, but it kept coming out too large even when the paper didn't jam or get stalled so half the paper remained white and the other part had only some of the image. After a lot of attempts, I finally realized I needed an image a lot smaller than I'd originally thought it would be and placed on a canvas size of 4 wide by 6 inches deep. The image itself had to be rotated 90 degrees because the photo paper only fits in the printer one way - portrait style instead of landscape.<br />
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Eventually I got the whole plate and frame image on one piece of photo paper. It took 16 tries with the printer - 11 partial images and 4 blank jammed pieces of photo paper.<br />
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Looking at it, you can probably see that the frame overlaps the plate a bit. I considered changing the size so it didn't, but then I realized I've seen a lot of real plates with frames where the frame covers edges a bit too much.<br />
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Someone with real experience with an image program like GIMP probably could've whipped something like this out in an hour or less. It's taken me closer to four hours, simply because much of the time I was doing stuff I've either never done or only do occasionally.<br />
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Just now I realized the weather is playing more tricks. The forecast called for showers early today. There were none here. Then the kids in the pool stopped screaming for a little bit and I realized I was hearing the faint sound of raindrops. I clicked on the Intellicast metro radar and saw that there was indeed a shower. Since The Luggage is still out on the deck drying - it's still a little tacky in spots - I got out my golf umbrella that I bought for extra shade at Faerieworlds '09 - the really hot year - and put it over The Luggage with a bit of moving TL itself. Of course, then the rain stopped and a breeze came up, knocking the umbrella off the porch. In order to get it, I had to go out my door and walk all the way around the building. I put it back and tied a rope to keep it from blowing away again<br />
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Finally, I realized the numerals and letters on a Crater Lake plate are supposed to be white, not the dark blue I'd originally used. I'd already flattened the image because .jpg files can't be saved in layers. Trying to just change the color left ragged blue edges all around, so I put another layer over the image and matched the font and size as best I could. There's a little bit of blue around the edges, but you do have to look closely. I think it makes the white type stand out a bit since it's mostly on a light blue background. Strictly speaking, there should be a CA beside the larger type with the C over the A, but GIMP doesn't allow for type condensing (if it does, I haven't discovered it), so it's not there. Probably nobody will notice.<br />
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I'd also saved an image of a slow-moving vehicle triangle which you may have seen on pictures of Amish buggies. That was quick to do in GIMP - no real manipulation required except a bit of resizing. It took three tries to print, though. It turns out that this "Photosmart" printer is really bad at printing photos on photo paper. Oh well, it was cheap when I bought it and I rarely print out photos.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-28844812977426397592012-06-28T20:23:00.001-07:002012-06-28T20:23:54.389-07:00The Luggage Gets a Coat of Stain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's The Luggage, perched on top of my cooler, which made a nice platform for the job of staining. This is with one coat of stain, which was still wet when I took the picture. It feels good to have done something that begins the alteration of the unfinished trunk into The Luggage. I imagine the second coat will improve the appearance, making it a bit darker overall.<br />
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I had been thinking of just using an old T shirt to wipe the stain on, but after a trip down to Gresham Town Fair - originally just to get some bread and jam at the outlet bakery - I found some cheap brushes at JoAnn's. They had a pack of three for $1.99. In the picture on the left, you can see two of the brushes on top of the can of stain. The 2" wide one is inside the former potato salad container with some stain I'll use on the next coat. I knew I was saving all those containers for a reason, I just didn't know what at the time.<br />
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Pulling all the materials together has been a bit more involved than I thought it would be, with more than a few trips by MAX and bus to round stuff up.<br />
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I had intended to start the staining this morning, but first I wanted to take my change from several years of saving to a Coinstar machine to get an Amazon card. I wanted to get an AC-powered air pump for my air mattress and a bucket hat for the Twoflower outfit. I'd gone to one at Fred Meyers in Gateway the other day, but that machine was set so you could only get a coupon that had to be used that day in the store. Yesterday I went to the nearest Albertson's. That machine was full and store people said they were having trouble getting service from Coinstar. So this morning, after checking locations of machines that give out Amazon cards, I went to the Safeway store that's a couple of MAX stops and a brief walk away. That machine was working, but when I punched the button to get an Amazon card, it said they are temporarily unavailable. So I returned home and decided to order anyway, then later get the coins converted into a form I can either deposit or use for something else. After that I went to Gresham for the bread and stuff. That turned out to be a good experience because I bought two jars of strawberry jam and was able to get two loaves of bread from the $1 shelf for free.<br />
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I need to drill 16 holes to mount the big casters. I have a battery-powered Black & Decker drill which I haven't used in a few years - being in an apartment, there's not much call for one. So I plugged in the battery charger to charge the batteries. They didn't charge. So yesterday I made a trip to Home Depot, where I'd originally bought the drill. B&D isn't making tools for VersaPak batteries any more. Home Depot had only one battery and it was $24.97. Two would have cost more than I'd spent for the drill in the first place. The HD person mentioned Harbor Freight as an alternative, so I went there by bus.<br />
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HF didn't have the batteries either, but they had a 3/8" drill for $19.99. I thought I had a 3/8" bit at home, so I didn't get one there. I did pick up a 25' extension cord and a couple of small LED flashlights, though. Of course, I got home and discovered, no, I didn't have a 3/8" drill bit. So back out again, this time to an Ace Hardware store reached by a MAX and bus trip. It was nearly $6, so I'm spending about $26 for 16 3/8" holes. Well, I'll probably need to drill more to mount something for the rope to pull The Luggage around, and I may add some wood screws to make the bottom, which I'll reinforce with pieces of the boards I got a few days back, more secure. Turns out the bottom of the trunk is much thinner than the sides.<br />
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I took a break from typing this post to go out and give The Luggage another coat of stain. This pic, like the first one, is a flash pic shot from just inside the sliding door to the deck. It is darker, although not too much darker.<br />
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The local weather radar was showing some showers moving through, but other than some light sprinkles, not much reached the ground. I waited a bit to start the staining, but things didn't get wetter. From the radar, it looks like that's over and done with, so I can leave The Luggage out to dry rather than bring it in and smell stain all night. Fingers crossed on that.<br />
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While there are morning showers in the forecast for tomorrow, I'm hoping I'll be able to do some cutting up of boards to reinforce The Luggage's bottom, drill the holes and mount the casters. I might have to get some wood screws even though I'm gluing the boards to the bottom on the inside. I'll also have to prop the lid open to stain the edges of it and the sides. I may line the inside with fabric or just stain it. Then I need to make, paint and mount the teeth. They'll be made out of craft sticks (they look a lot like popsicle sticks, although these are wider. I bought some antique white paint, an off-white color, at Craft Warehouse, because I doubt The Luggage brushes. I've got some mangled butterfly wings to stick in the teeth. There will be fangs!MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-69038958863204642342012-06-23T16:50:00.000-07:002012-06-23T16:50:51.137-07:00The Luggage: Casting and SwivelingI've finally, I think, got what I needed in the first place for wheels for The Luggage. While I initially thought the wheels from a stroller I bought would save lots of money, when I started buying stuff to attach them to The Luggage, things began adding up. Nuts and bolts, washers, braces, etc. that I bought the other day cost almost as much as the caster wheels I'd originally considered getting at Harbor Freight. Add in the stroller and it was pretty much the same.<br />
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I got stuff during a trip to Home Depot after lots of looking around, asking questions, thinking, etc. But once I got home, some braces I thought were going to be a tight fit turned out to be a bit loose. It got me thinking that whatever I bodged up just wasn't going to stand up to The Luggage being hauled over the ground of what is, for most of the year, a pasture. Plus I began to think I was doing something I have a tendency to do with some projects - overthinking stuff.<br />
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So, going for simplicity, I decided to abandon the stroller and consider the money paid for it as chalked up to experience, with most of the hardware to be returned unopened to Home Depot. So I went down to the bus and took another trip out to Harbor Freight.<br />
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Once there, I picked out two 5" swivel casters and two 5" fixed casters. But I couldn't shake the feeling that they might not be great on the rough ground. They're a bit smaller than the stroller wheels, which are 6". So I looked a bit more at other wheels on nearby shelves. They have wheels, some more like 8" but needing axles and hardware to hold them on.<br />
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I'll add a couple of 1" x 4" boards to the underside of the trunk for reinforcement and that should make things sturdy enough. Hiding the wheels will be some kind of skirting - cloth or wood to be determined, but whichever, I'll have pictures of lots of feet.<br />
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Although Harbor Freight sells all kinds of tools and accessories, they don't sell stuff like nuts and bolts. I'll have to make a trip back to Home Depot for those, but I've got to go anyway to return stuff.<br />
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When I was originally thinking of making The Luggage mobile, I thought of just getting a small Radio Flyer-type wagon. That would've been so simple. Then I saw how much even the small ones cost these days, even on eBay.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-53651101998973405542012-06-16T20:03:00.000-07:002012-06-16T20:03:32.384-07:00More Costuming & The Luggage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'd been checking around to see about getting a red wizard robe for the Rincewind costume, but wasn't coming up with much. Too bad I don't sew, at least not enough to want to tackle making a whole robe. I was also looking into getting fabric dye or paint to color and existing grey robe I got in 2007 for my second time at Faerieworlds and my first as a wizard. I was also considering dyeing or coloring the Harry Potter Sorting Hat red.<br />
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It turns out the old robe is 100% polyester, and from what I was seeing on dye packages, that material comes out light. The hat is also mostly polyester. After a trip down to the Craft Warehouse and Jo-Ann's in Gresham earlier, during which I got a few things - X-Acto knife, blades, gold glitter glue to spell out WIZZARD on the hat (yep, the ZZ is not a typo), and some glow-in-the-dark stars, I got on the internet to look up robes.<br />
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I first spotted the Jedi robe shown above on a page Yahoo pulled up. The price was $46 and change. Might've been shipping involved too. So then I checked on Amazon. Their price was $38.53 with free shipping (not super saver - their supplier ships free). This time I was smart enough to remember to order through one of my Squidoo lenses where I split commission with Squidoo. That'll save me about $1.63 (better than nothing). I also used reward points connected to my Amazon credit card, saving another $6.96. So the robe will end up costing me just shy of $30 - not bad. If I'd bought both dye and fabric paint, I might've ended up spending about half of that, so I'm ending up with probably a much better robe, a lot less work, but Rincewind will be clad in brown instead of red. The robe should arrive in about a week.<br />
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As for The Luggage, I haven't actually started work on modifications, but I have gotten more material. The best thing for transporting The Luggage on the uneven ground of the Faerieworlds Realm is wheels, preferably bigger wheels than found on typical luggage.<br />
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Getting the wheels was more of an adventure than I thought it would be. I checked Harbor Freight, where the website showed a store within easy walking distance of the end of the MAX line in Gresham. Except, the store moved several years ago but they never updated the website. I did a lot of walking several days ago, but there was no store where the website indicated. That was frustrating.<br />
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I found a couple of shirts, then started checking around to see what they had that might have wheels on it. Tucked away in a small hidden section I found a few strollers. One looked quite promising. Instead of just having four wheels, there were four sets of two wheels. The front wheels are on casters so it's steered much like a grocery cart. The wheels were 5", just about right. The stroller was $7.49, far less than the $23.96 I would've paid at Harbor Freight for caster wheels. The shirts were only $7 for both. I did go next door to Harbor Freight, but all I needed was a hacksaw to attack the stroller for the wheels. That was only $3.99.<br />
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I also recently made a trip to Fabric Depot where I wanted to see if they had webbing similar to what's used for duffel bag handles. There was some red 1 1/2" webbing on the shelf, but not enough. I asked if they had any more in stock. The clerk came out with a fresh roll of 10 yards. She said if I wanted the whole roll, I could get it at the wholesale price of 40% off the $1.59/yd. or about 95 cents a yard. Considering how I plan to use the webbing, I'll need enough so getting the whole roll at wholesale is a good deal. I also got some decorative upholstery nails.<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R2GDJu5VEEY/T91GwelxFpI/AAAAAAAACH0/qNfVHFlNhKQ/s720/IMG_1402.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R2GDJu5VEEY/T91GwelxFpI/AAAAAAAACH0/qNfVHFlNhKQ/s320/IMG_1402.JPG" width="320" /></a>The wizard hat I've been wearing since 2007 will get some new butterflies, the Flitter Faerie and the Wendy Froud faerie along with little lights. I hadn't planned on taking a picture of the hat, but when the faeries saw me taking other pictures, they were rather insistent that they get their picture taken as well. You may notice there aren't too many butterflies on the hat just now. They kind of got smooshed last November on the flight back from New York. Wendy's faerie is perched atop the Star Trek shuttle model/radio with new butterflies almost covering her up, and the Flitter faerie is in front of a couple of the new butterflies. The hat sits right behind me when I'm at the computer, so the faeries keep an eye on stuff.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-35814571238365329312012-06-09T18:15:00.000-07:002012-06-09T18:15:25.913-07:00The Luggage 1: Acquisition<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mn3-_NqNP4E/T9PZXwmRM1I/AAAAAAAACGs/k7SsrojaHhc/s1600/IMG_1394.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mn3-_NqNP4E/T9PZXwmRM1I/AAAAAAAACGs/k7SsrojaHhc/s320/IMG_1394.JPG" width="320" /></a>The skies looked pretty threatening today, the the weather radar wasn't showing any rain, so I ventured out with my two-wheeled hand truck to get the unfinished trunk which will become The Luggage (see the previous post if you don't know what I mean). If I still had an operating car, I would've just jumped in, gone down to the Craft Warehouse at Gresham Town Fair and put it in the car for the trip home.<br />
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Instead, I got the hand truck, a bit of rope and a stretchy cord with hooks and hopped on the MAX. Although the trunk isn't all that heavy, it is bulky, so just trying to carry it by the handles would've been difficult.<br />
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One I got the trunk and paid for it, I secured it to the hand truck while outside the store, then stopped into the bakery outlet next door that sells Orowheat bread for half or less than what regular stores charge. Got a couple of loaves and a couple of jars of strawberry jam, which went in my backpack. The trip home was no trouble at all.<br />
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These pictures show what The Luggage looks like before any modification. It's not the sturdiest trunk in the world, but it's a prop, not something for traveling by tramp steamer and on into the dark interior jungles of Borneo. Still, there is a good deal of room in it, so I'll probably pack some light stuff for the trip to Faerieworlds and perhaps use it for carrying around snacks, costume changes, etc.<br />
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The next thing I want is a set of casters to mount on the bottom. The casters should have big wheels. I'm thinking 5" wheels will make it easier to maneuver over the rough ground of The Realm. 6" casters would be better, but 5" casters cost $5.99 each and 6" casters are around $14.99 each at the Harbor Freight store. I checked Amazon, but Harbor Freight is cheaper.<br />
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The trunk is 25 1/2" wide by 15 1/2" deep by 17 1/2" in height including the lid. Knock off an inch for inside measurements, except the depth from the bottom to the top of the box, minus the lid, is 13 1/2".<br />
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As this project develops, I'll try to remember to take pictures to show how things are coming along.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-13662920019641391822012-06-09T16:04:00.001-07:002012-06-09T16:04:19.361-07:00Rincewind and The LuggageI headed out to Gresham Town Fair this afternoon, intending to see if JoAnn Fabrics & Crafts had little bird houses for a buck apiece. I had thoughts of buying a bunch to make into faerie houses - rather small faerie houses. They were still being sold for a buck. I looked around a bit more there to get ideas for stuff needed for modifications, but I wanted to check out Michael's and a Dollar Store down near the end of the MAX line. Also on the way to the MAX I stopped into the Craft Warehouse in the Town Fair.<br />
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Originally I intended just to get some more tiny light strings for the steampunk top hats I need to finish. I got the lights and a few doodads to add to the hats. Meanwhile, outside, a downpour had begun, so I took my time. I looked around for more materials ideas and while doing that, spotted some unfinished trunks for $29.99 and $35.99. Suddenly I realized what the Rincewind persona I've decided on needed: The Luggage! That's it (to the left) in the lower part of the cover of Terry Pratchett's first Discworld novel, <i>The Colour of Magic</i>. The Luggage first belonged to Twoflower, Discworld's first tourist, then later it became Rincewind's. The Luggage is made of sapient pearwood and moves about on lots of little legs. It's very loyal to its owner and can be very dangerous to anyone trying to harm said owner - as in devouring the offender.<br />
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I also had the thought that with The Luggage, I could wear Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt and a floppy hat and be Twoflower. I've got the shorts and hat, so I'd only need a Hawaiian shirt or something similar. I can modify a book into a "phrase book" which I can pull out, open, and ask questions in a somewhat loud and carefully enunciated voice. Of course, it would be fun to say slightly, or maybe not so slightly, wrong things as in the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6D1YI-41ao" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Monty Python sketch</a> where the "Hungarian" (John Cleese) would say things such as, "My hovercraft is full of eels."<br />
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Tomorrow (this was written late on Friday and now I see the next day I forgot to send it), and for several days after, the weather is supposed to be drier, so I'll probably get a lot of material-foraging done. I've been discovering lots of places to buy materials down in the Gresham area since I opened the credit union account.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3700869667431584301.post-38471837817483087972012-06-07T23:12:00.000-07:002012-06-07T23:12:19.277-07:00Waiting for the Personperson<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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"The personperson" is the nonsexist way to say "mailman," as in "the personperson delivered the person to my personbox."<br />
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So I was expecting to get my remaining stuff from Amazon - the Harry Potter Sorting Hat, the liner for the shopping/laundry cart (the came yesterday via UPS) and Brian Froud's <i>The Dark Crystal Creation Myths, Vol. 1</i>.<br />
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I can see the personboxes, (OK, mailboxes) for the apartment complex from the window next to my computer, but only if I get up and look. Sometimes I get so involved in the computer that I forget to look, like yesterday when I never noticed the mailman's visit. So I decided to get a bit high-tech about it. In hooking things up, I probably expended more energy than just getting up and looking every so often, just in case you think I was being lazy.<br />
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I have one Windows machine, which I don't really turn on all that often. It had been sitting on top of the computer desk hutch opposite the Linux machine I use most often, and it was hooked into the same monitor. The Linux machine connects with DVI, the Windows machine connected with VGA, so all I had to do was push a button to on the monitor to switch that, but I also had to unplug the USB cables from one machine and plug them into another.<br />
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So I switched the Windows machine to the computer cart to my left and next to the window and put another Linux box up on the hutch. Whatever machine is on the cart has its own keyboard, mouse and monitor. I needed to have the Windows machine next to the, um, window because my Logitech 9000 webcam works on Windows but I never got geeky enough to make it work with Linux.<br />
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With the physical switches done, I fired up the Windows machine, downloaded the Logitech software, installed it and bingo, the webcam worked right off the bat. So I put it on the windowsill, propped up a bit, and pointed it toward the person, um, mailboxes and zoomed in. I tested it before dark last night, then fired it all up again this morning. I tried using a mirror so I wouldn't have to remember to turn my head, but that wasn't comfortable, so I just resolved to keep looking at the monitor off to my left.<br />
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Sure enough, before too long I spotted the mail truck next to the boxes. I got up to look and noticed the mailman and the on-site manager talking, then they began heading in what looked like my direction. They had to go around the other end of the building I'm in to the locked door. My view of the boxes is out a West-facing window while the locked door that gives access to four apartments is on the East side. I went downstairs and intercepted them at the door.<br />
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The Sorting Hat is actually pretty neat. It looks a bit beat up, which is just what I wanted, except I'll need to change the color from brown to red. It also has some lighter brown "patches" that I may remove to apply instead to a pair of pants. It has wire in the brim so it can have an uneven, worn look.<br />
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My version of Rincewind may look more like Sir David Jason's portrayal in the movie <i>The Colour of Magic</i> than like Paul Kidby's illustration. The robe may look different also. The old grey one I have has faux fur trim. Since it isn't new, I won't mind making it look a bit worse for wear. I'll have to look around to see if I can find some appropriate appliques to put on it. But I think I may have a yellow butterfly to add to the hat.<br />
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One thing I noticed about the hat. It looks basically similar to the wizard hat I've been wearing for several years now. There's a good reason for it. They're both made by Elope. I ended up paying less for the new hat than the older one, plus the HP version just looks cooler in its natural state than the faerie-covered grey hat looked before I started adding stuff to it.MobyDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520408830413051997noreply@blogger.com0