Shirley's Mind Grapes

Shirley's Mind Grapes

The answers to questions nobody asked

Daily Doodle

Dailies 03/15/14

Dailies 03/15/14

Daily Doodle: LEGOin’

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Song of the Day: Thank you (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) by Sly and the Family Stone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ptrc2cWRxU

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m plucking the bass and casually two-stepping.

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Blurb 1/365: I was thinking about how more current rap music includes lyrics about spending money and having a lot of money. Going back to Rapper’s Delight, the lyrics say, “Hear me talkin’ ‘bout checkbooks, credit cards, more money than a sucker could ever spend. But I wouldn’t give a sucker or a bum from the Rucker, not a dime till I made it again.” On a tangent from that note, I made one of my Animal Crossing neighbors say, “Hotel, motel!” as a greeting.

Dailies 03/14/14

Dailies 03/14/14

Daily Doodle: Keep On Smiling

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Song of the Day: Here I Go by Mystikal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag8nT3ofkdM

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Musical Pipe Dream: Everything’s in slow motion at a picnic at the park. Women are arriving and walking jello molds of all different flavors and fruit cocktail fruit pieces over to the main table.

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Blurb 1/365: Playing Animal Crossing is a big stress reliever for me. The animals just walk around planting flowers and saying things like, “Take every opportunity you can to dance. Whether it’s a sunny morning or a rainy afternoon, nothing lifts the spirits like some carefree dancing.” Then you can sometimes see them at the club shakin’ it to Totokeke’s beats.

Dailies 03/10/14

Dailies 03/10/14

Daily Doodle: Gimme the Mic

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Song of the Day: Metal on Metal by Anvil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhpVtNw7hd4

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m singing lead on a big and bright stage. In between stanzas, I hold the microphone close to my body with my other arm tucked in and bang my head forward and backward.

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Blurb 1/365: One day, I think I’ll have enough courage to completely bust it out on the microphone, but I haven’t gotten there yet. I think the big step will be belting out my voice rather than going in between humming like a mouse and just talking loudly to a beat when I try to sing in front of people. If this ever happens, I hope it will be epic.

Dailies 03/09/14

Dailies 03/09/14

Daily Doodle: Ideas

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Song of the Day: Fu-Gee-La (Sly & Robbie Remix) by Fugees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Q8odsJgrQ

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m 13 and I’m sticking my skinny noodle arm out the window of my sister’s two door Honda.

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Blurb 1/365: Dr. Foster: Would you please tell your son to stop?

Flanders’ Dad: We can’t do it, man! That’s discipline! That’s like tellin’ Gene Krupa not to go [starts banging on the desk] “boom boom bam bam bam, boom boom bam bam bam, boom boom boom bam ba ba ba ba, da boo boo tss!” We don’t believe in rules, like, we gave them up when we started livin’ like freaky beatniks!

Dr. Foster: You don’t believe in rules, yet you want to control Ned’s anger.

Flanders’ Mom: Yeah. You gotta help us, Doc. We’ve tried nothin’ and we’re all out of ideas.

Dailies 03/08/14

Dailies 03/08/14

Daily Doodle: Blue Bear

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Song of the Day: Jeepers Creepers as performed by Paul Whiteman and His Swing Wing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN6SI1-SuPk

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m wearing a suit with horizontal red and white stripes. I’m standing in the middle of 3 other singers and we’re swaying to the music. Every time we sing “jeeeeeepers, creeeeepers” we turn to stand in a line and, while keeping our feet planted to the ground and hands at our sides, lean forward, left, back, and right in a circular motion.

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Blurb 1/365: I remember I watched Jeepers Creepers as a rental on VHS. On a car ride to my grandma’s house, I retold the movie to my sisters doing voices and everything. I distinctly remember acting out Patricia Belcher’s character, “Darry? DARRY?!”

Dailies 03/06/14

Dailies 03/06/14

Daily Doodle: Cats

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Song of the Day: The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m sitting on a wooden chair that has a back shaped like a pretzel and a round seat. I’m playing the acoustic guitar.

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Blurb 1/365: Well, thirteen dailies left and then I’ll have completed 365. It’s pretty hard to believe and I’m not ashamed to say that it’s one of the most important things I’ve done. It’s something I’ve done independently and when I’m done I’ll consider it one of my first achievements.

My senses are more sensitive to important things and dull to stupid things. Push out the jive, bring in the love.

Dailies 03/05/14

Dailies 03/05/14

Daily Doodle: All Is Good In the Animal Crossing Hood

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Song of the Day: Summer Wine by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib_eW9VSUwM

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m sitting at a booth in a restaurant with red upholstery. The backs of the bench seats go as high as the back of my head. There is a free bowl of boiled peanuts in the center of the table. Close by there is a small television screen and karaoke machine playing a FITTO laser disc with Summer Wine playing and my parents are singing a duet.

Did I write this one already or have I just thought about it a lot?

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Blurb 1/365: Sometimes the sound of silence is so loud and it’s beautiful.

Dailies 03/04/14

Dailies 03/04/14

Daily Doodle: Post Festivale

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Song of the Day: Something by The Beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrW7dlDHH28

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Musical Pipe Dream: It’s 2AM and I’m on the lobby floor of a hotel during a convention. There are populated tables set up to play table top games. In the far back corner, I’m playing the drums in a Rock Band competition.

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Blurb 1/365: Being profane and speaking freely relaxes me, but for the future, I’ll remember not to do this while dining at a Panera Bread.