Shirley's Mind Grapes

Shirley's Mind Grapes

The answers to questions nobody asked

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Dailies 09/09/13

Dailies 09/09/13

Daily Doodle: Nuchi on Parade (Commissioned by and drawn for Nuchi!)

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Song of the Day: Rapper’s Delight by The Sugarhill Gang

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

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m on BART and a few kids onboard at the Lake Merrit station with this drum beat playing out loud on one of their phones. They start rapping and the all of us other passengers start to get into it. Most of us are clapping and some are recording video with their phones. When Master Gee’s intro comes in and he says, “On and on and on on and on”, I do a glide step in a box form. My face gets close to one of the cameras at the second step and you can see my big eyeball before I slide away.

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Blurb 1/365: Love life.

Dailies 09/07/13

Dailies 09/07/13

Daily Doodle: Allow the Dough to Rest

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Song of the Day: Give It to Me Baby by Rick James

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dNIQVYGXbM

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m on an extremely crowded bus and holding on to one of the metal poles. This song comes on over the FM radio with moderate reception. All of us are bouncing along with the bumps in the road when my wedding ring starts clanging on the metal pole to the beat. Somebody from the middle of the bus starts singing along. Other people start chiming in until most of us are singing along or at least smiling and grooving. I arrive at my stop and off-board the bus while the song is still playing. The bus slowly departs with people still partying to the music.

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Blurb 1/365: “How the hell did she have all these puppies?” – Investigator from Animal Precinct (She had 16 in the basement of an abandoned house. They all lived. The mom was adopted and I can only assume those adorable puppies were all snatched up, too.)

I was looking up this show and it looks like it aired in 2001 … that was 12 years ago … (whoa).

Dailies 09/06/13

Dailies 09/06/13

Daily Doodle: A Serious Corn

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Song of the Day: We Put the Spring in Springfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeYyzoONK6U

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m playing the piano next to a stage doing a variety show. There is a mix of scantily clad women, men hamming it up and tap dancing in clogs, and jugglers.

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Blurb 1/365: The world would be a different place if it didn’t have The Simpsons or Futurama.

Dailies 09/02/13

Dailies 09/02/13

Daily Doodle: Together Forever

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Song of the Day: California Girls by The Beach Boys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a49McFOFp0

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Musical Pipe Dream: I have a bowl haircut and I’m rockin’ it on the drums. I’m wearing rose tinted glasses and my drumming motions are shaking my hair to the beat. There is a microphone that I lean in slightly to the right to sing backup.

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Blurb 1/365: I can’t translate crazy much anymore, or I choose not to, and I’m proud of that.

Dailies 09/01/13

Dailies 09/01/13

Daily Doodle: Ham Radio

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Song of the Day: Those Oldies But Goodies by Little Caesar & the Romans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB-Tr3WnrKE

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m singing backup with two others and the bassist stage right. The pianist is stage left and the drummer is in the back center. The lead singer is playing guitar and center stage. We’re all wearing baby blue.

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Blurb 1/365: Binge TV watching is the only I watch TV now.

Dailies 08/31/13

Dailies 08/31/13

Daily Doodle: Fitzcarraldo

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Song of the Day: Three O’Clock in the Morning by Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dim9xdVIiYw

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m playing the tuba along with a big band. We’re at a theatre and the audience is dressed up in formal attire. The curtains are red velvet and the moulding is gilded with gold.

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Blurb 1/365: On the weekends, I’m usually ready to start the day around 9PM.

Dailies 08/30/13

Dailies 08/30/13

Daily Doodle: Monkey Bars

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Song of the Day: Tonari No Totoro by Joe Hisaishi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz-tktACBV8

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m on stage in a huge auditorium jamming on a keyboard. The audience members are waving their arms and singing along with stars in their eyes. There’s a guy on stage drumming a hand held drum that’s hooked up to an amplifier with only one drum stick. A very energetic woman is singing. There are Totoros on stage and in the aisles between the seats. It’s magical.

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Blurb 1/365: Bark! Bark bark bark bark! BARK.

Dailies 08/29/13

Dailies 08/29/13

Daily Doodle: Road Ragin’

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Song of the Day: You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

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

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m performing as one of the backup singers. Two other backup singers, the bassist, and I are doing a choreographed dance in front of our microphones. We have on polished black shoes that we tap and slide on the ground in unison.

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Blurb 1/365: Beauty of life.