Please work for Star Peace
I'm sorry but the holiday's have won- I'm behind in reading blogs, tweets, and FB- I'm behind in posting, but I have knitted a bunch, made three batches of caramels, and spent way too much money on gifts- one of them is for ME! Anyway I wanted to give all of you something fun to watch or hear, but what? Then I saw George Takei's post for Star Peace and I knew I had to share it will all of you. If you're not following George Takei you need to...
Aliens in London
Attack the Block This film is what I mean when I talk about adding diversity without making it the focal point in your work. Attack the Block takes place in a London slum run by a drug gang. The main characters are black teenagers whose best option is getting in good with that gang leader. All of this just is the setting and characters. Yes, there is growth. Yes, you find out about life in this neighborhood. The plot: aliens have landed and are attacking their neighbor hood. These thugs take...
Yoga Piph- Clutter Keeps my Knees and my Forehead Apart.
During yoga I had a piph today, not a full blown epiphany, just a small flash of insight into my life: a piph. As I was attempting to put my left foot by my right hip, cross my right leg over my left, then hug my knee and turn twisting to the left I had to stop. I couldn’t go further, not because I wasn’t flexible enough, but because my stomach got in the way. At this time I am not a small woman, I weight about 60lbs more then is healthy, but as you can see I am working on it. Anyway, I find...
Could You Hunt Trolls?
Troll Hunter Is an amazing movie! It’s done in documentary style, and while at first I thought it was going to be a horror movie it really isn’t. There are some suspenseful parts, and one guy does get eaten; but he didn’t follow the rules, so that’s what happens when you’re dealing with trolls. Troll Hunter is a Norwegian film. I’m finding a lot of Norwegian films that I like 🙂 It is beautifully shot because Norway is gorgeous with lots of waterfalls, which, as a desert dweller I enjoyed. The...
Anti- Zen Enlightenment from the Sewers
To say my life is frustrating does not convey the daily restraint required to not commit acts which would require some friends, shovels, and a six foot hole. I can feel a breakdown coming soon. It might involve Mojitos and there will be crying. But then I hope to achieve a moment of anti-Zen. “But what is anti-Zen?” you ask. Let me ‘splain. Zen is about detachment, things are what they are, and about being in the moment. You seek, and so I’ve heard, gain these qualities in quiet contemplation...
LUSH the key to holiday bliss
Today I am going to save you all frustration and harassment of finding the perfect gift for whatever holiday you celebrate. LUSH is the answer. LUSH is a small company which makes a variety of amazingly wonderful bath goodness by hand. LUSH is the perfect gift for your family and friends who are: environmentalists, travelers, stressed, divas, and teenage girls. YES. Teenage girls love LUSH. Allow me to show you why LUSH is so awesome. I only need one product: shampoo. LUSH has two forms of...
Foreign Film Friday- Howl’s Moving Castle
Howl’s Moving Castle I love everything I have seen by Hayao Miyazaki he is an amazing direction, animator, and writer. Howl’s Movie Castle is an adaptation of the book by Dianna Wynne Jones, which is a wonderful book and is the first in the series. If you haven’t read them you should, they are lovely rich stories. The movie is different from the book, but no less amazing. Think of it as fan fiction and you’ll be fine 🙂 The artistry of the anime makes this movie with watching, the story will...
Organizing Priorities aka Crazy Brain
Over the past month I’ve seen several blogs talking about prioritizing your life in order to help you get all of the things you need to do and want to do done. This is great advice. It makes perfect sense, and I’m sure works beautifully for the emotionally stable people out there. Are any of them writers?? The first problem I run into is trying to figure out what my top priorities are. I have a list of emotional priorities and real life priorities and few things cross over. Let’s take a look...
Create Diversity Tip Eight: It’s okay to give your characters flaws
Create Diversity Tip Eight: It’s okay to give your characters flaws Sometimes to prove that we aren’t prejudices we will make perfect minority characters. Perfect characters are boring! It is our job as writers to torment our characters. I do not mean having your black female in a tizzy over going to Yale or Harvard and her loving supportive Leave it to Beaver parents smiling in the background. I’m not saying your black woman can’t go to those schools, because of course they do, but give them...
Foreign Film Friday- Amalie
Amalie Amelie was my first French movie, and I feel in love with Audrey Tautou as an actress. Charming is a perfect description. This movie is so sweet and we see such a lovely growth arch in the characters. It’s also quirky and fun. This is a movie that has made my 'watch over and over' list. And the garden gnome traveling the world- they stole that from this movie. Because this has subtitles I would recommend this for teens, so they can read fast enough to keep up. It is rated R and can’t...
