Shirley's Mind Grapes

Shirley's Mind Grapes

The answers to questions nobody asked

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Dailies 02/15/14

Dailies 02/15/14

Daily Doodle: Ponyo

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Song of the Day: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow by The Shirelles

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

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m wearing a square-necked satin dress and singing lead.

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Blurb 1/365: The Halloween costumes from my childhood that I remember are: an angel (but I didn’t want to wear the wings, so I became known as a bride), a punk rocker, death with a bloody axe instead of a scythe (I was this more than once), and a person being strangled by an arm severed at the elbow (my mom made this for me using one of my dad’s work shirts, a hand prop from a party store, and ketchup from Burger King ketchup packets). The Halloween costumes from my adulthood that I remember are: a mouse, a bear, and Kermit the Frog.

Dailies 02/14/14

Dailies 02/14/14

Dailies: Puppygram!

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Song of the Day: You Got Me Wide Open by Bootsy Collins featuring Bernie Worrell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAfgOAJMh5c

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m sitting at the back end of a stage playing the drums. I’ve got a microphone nearby my head so I can turn my head to sing backup. “Sittin’ on a groove and he wanna play …” Then I can snap my head back to break into the next part of the song.

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Blurb 1/365:

Blurb 1/365: I remember listening to the Friday soundtrack for the first time on cassette tape. I got it from The Wherehouse and it was packaged in a cardboard case that slipped on from one of the short ends. I had a clock radio that I kept on the side of my bed that was against a wall next to my pillow. It was a big, rectangle block that had sharp edges. There was a tape deck that popped up from the top. I would quietly click it down and listen to tapes on the lowest volume. I let a friend borrow it to record onto a blank cassette tape and when he returned it, I made some smart comment about it not being rewound. He said, “Who are you, Blockbuster?” Then I remembered the movie Kathleen Turner was in called Serial Mom where she killed that person that didn’t rewind their rented video tapes. I remember the oddest things.

Dailies 02/10/14

Dailies 02/10/14

Daily Doodle: Timmy or Tommy

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Song of the Day: He’s So Fine by The Chiffons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinz9Avvq6A

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m doing the doo-langs and snapping as I sway back and forth.

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Blurb 1/365: I want both the introduction to the presentation of my life achievement award and my eulogy read in the style of Otho from Beetlejuice. “The wedding clothes …”

Dailies 02/06/14

Dailies 02/06/14

Daily Doodle: Worker Bee

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Song of the Day: (Not Just) Knee Deep by Funkadelic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-20v1b5jKY

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Musical Pipe Dream: I am singing backup in a small recording studio with 20 other people. We’ve been jamming for 15 minutes and things are just getting started.

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Blurb 1/365: You know when people say something sassy to each other and then they smile/frown and look down while laughing but only in an exhale and then wave at the opposite person to stop while stomping a foot? Whenever I witness that, it makes me smile.

Dailies 02/04/14

Dailies 02/04/14

Daily Doodle: Alligator Clip

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Song of the Day: Let’s Get It On by Marvin Gaye

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

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m singing at a 60th wedding anniversary party. Everybody’s out on the dance floor and the band’s been playing this song for 8 minutes.

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Blurb 1/365: Cookie, cookie, cookie, cookie .. COOKIE! (sung in the tune of “For the Love of Money”)