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30 Days of Creativity: Day 12

Today’s theme from 30 Days of Creativity is “String.”


The Ram directs a scene from the movie Pinocchio.

Do not question the Ram’s casting choice.

  • Who knows better whether stars can be wished on than Spock?
  • Who’s better at making wooden actors look good than Spock?
  • Who shares a March 26 birthday with me but that famous ram, Leonard Nimoy?

30 Days of Creativity 2012: Day 11

Today’s theme from 30 Days of Creativity is “Orange.”


The Ram directs a scene from the movie A Clockwork Orange.

I personally never watched more than the first bit of this movie because it disturbed me so much. I suppose that was the point.

Thanks to Tom for helping me add a touch of steam punk to Ghoulia’s eye and to Starbucks for her cane.

30 Days of Creativity 2012: Day 10

Today’s theme from 30 Days of Creativity is “8 Bit.”


The Ram lets the kids kick it old school during a break from filming Super Mario Brothers.

Thanks to Tom for the props, because I didn’t know “8 Bit” from an interdimensional hole that could take me to an alternate universe where dinosaur descendants rule and plumbers are heroes. On second thought, plumbers are heroes in this dimension, as well.

Legacy Writing 365:159

Before I reached thirty-five years of age (the first and only real time I celebrated that birthday), I’d endured seeing:

  • Melanie Hamilton Wilkes suffer a grueling childbirth and outrun the Yankees only to fade to paleness between two long braids before she breathed her last off-camera;
  • Juliet Capulet take a dagger;
  • Jenny Cavilleri Barrett flare her nostrils one last time before giving up on Bach, the Beatles, and breathing;
  • Mary Rose Foster self-destruct with drugs;
  • Aurora Greenway make sure daughter Emma was allowed to say goodbye without pain;
  • Miss Daisy Werthan get driven somewhere for the last time;
  • Ruth Jamison eat fried green tomatoes before she kicked it;
  • Shelby Eatenton Latcherie drink her last glass of juice.

I think you get the picture. The BIG picture. On the big screen. A crazed excess of female death. If her own death was defied, our fairer sex might end up on the side of a road spit-wiping blood from her dead lover’s face.

Liz messing with a cookie press while making cheese straws. Dig that 1970s wallpaper.

Whenever Lynne, her sister Liz, and Liz’s BFF Brigid would get together, they’d always bring up Beaches.

“No, thanks,” I’d always say.

“But we have to seeeee it–”

“I read the book,” I’d counter.

“Pleeeeease.”

“Leave me out of your estrogen-saturated sob fest,” I’d insist.

Brigid looking all innocent with a teddy bear.

But the time came when Lynne and I went to visit them in Dallas. I was plied with a spaghetti dinner. I was promised Yahtzee. I was given a box of Kleenex and no choice, because Lynne had the car keys since it was her car. And I was forced to watch Beaches.

Should this account have a happy ending, with the four of us wiping tears from our eyes and vowing eternal friendship? Yeah, yeah, I cried, whatever. Then I annihilated them at Yahtzee.

Movies referenced above: Gone With The Wind, Romeo and Juliet, (the 1968 version), Love Story, The Rose, Terms of Endearment, Driving Miss Daisy, Fried Green Tomatoes, Steel Magnolias, and the 1976 version of A Star is Born.