The Portrait of Zool

Crowded house is the BOMB!!! That is one of the first CDs I ever bought, but I also now have the LP. I also have their last concert on DVD. SO cool! I am fortunate here to have a used record store where I can pick up a lot of records for two or three bucks! Would love to share more but I'm actually kinda going nuts on this post... Currently I'm listening to CLASSIC Asia! (yes, on vinyl) Keep it coming!

Time to break out the 80's music! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZMPVi3ebDE Yes, I'm actually listening to the vinyl.

Poetry, released Haikus falling like sunshine warming the spirit.

Another tough one! I love the quiet of walking in falling snow, but walking in the rain can be so refreshing and invigorating! I'lll have to go with rain by a nose. Walking in the forest or walking on the beach?

Nice! Here's a 'Saturnine' I really like - though it's not available on vinyl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUZ0ocB3dCs

Polka dotted jaguars mamboed to the thrumm of the color blind chameleon.

That's a tough one, Dwarves are tough and can really put it away, but Hobbits get to do it in the sunlight, so I'd have to say Hobbits! Longhand or word processor?

NIce! Gonna have to pick that up. Here is a sample of the new vinyl I picked up the other day:

Awesome!

Many inebriates gauge bygone the calculus of clouds.

One of the things I find most inspiring is music. Share what is currently inspiring you here!

This is another simple little game designed to stimulate a little thoughtful activity. I'll go first by stating two items; _____ or _____. The next person chooses this or that (explanation optional) and then makes up the next question. Simple! I'll go first: Iambic pentameter or haiku?

Awesome!

Zombies crunched daintily on frayed nerves as the body snatchers invaded.

An interesting story concerns John's novel 'Agent to the Stars'. This was his first book, written, so he explains in an epilog, just to see if he could. After he finished it, he wasn't quite sure what to do with it. Not thinking it was actually good enough to publish, he put it on his popular blog 'Whatever', and requested that if anybody read it and liked it to donate a dollar for his site. He put a stop to that after a short time when he noticed he had collected over $4000.00. Then he had it published. The rest, as they say, is history. Yes, I'd have to say one of the reasons I have come back to the Pen is I am actually feeling somewhat inspired by Mr. Scalzi. He writes good books too.

Ha! I know what you mean. I wasn't interested in 'Your Hatemail Will Be Graded' until I had stopped by the local Barnes & Noble, not knowing what else to do on an otherwise idle lunch hour, and saw it there on the shelf. Holding it in my hands, feeling the heft of the raw irony of everything right and everything wrong about our society in one neat little package, I knew I just had to buy it. 'Redshirts', on the other hand, I had been wanting to buy for quite a while, so when I saw it on the shelf it was just self interest. Imagine my surprise, however, when I learned it was the 2013 Hugo winner! Funny thing, it says 'mind-bending' on the back cover, and I could actually feel my mind bending as I read it. I gave my wife a Kindle for Xmas last year and she has been trying to convince me to get one. She loves it. For one thing, she says, it is so LIGHT. For myself, if I'm not sweating, I figure I'm just not having an intellectual good time.

My new favorite author is John Scalzi. In the last month I read his 'Old Man's War' trilogy, 'Agent To The Stars', and the howlingly entertaining 'Redshirts'. Today I just picked up his 'Your Hatemail Will Be Graded', which is a book of his blog posts - yes, an actual, published, book converted from a forest, not an e-book. You?

Ionic grumbling slathered the waits, but I degarded.

I like it! I like it!!

This has been a favorite of mine for many, many years! Glad to see it posted here.

"NEVER enter a battle of wits with a Sicilian!" *Dies*

There are two kinds of art; The art which reveals what we see, and the art which reveals us. Some would argue they are the same - and I think that reveals something about them.

"What is reality?" he asked from one dream of another...

Awesome!

Chemtrials! - a new horror movie from Walt Disney productions! (Google it - you'll never believe what some people will believe!)