L. Jagi Lamplighter's Blog, page 64
November 14, 2012
A Head’s Up
Start: 12/08/2012 3:00 pm
End: 12/08/2012 5:00 pm
DC area fantasy authors Lamplighter and Wright chat with us about their work. Coffee/Tea/Cocoa and munchies available…
http://www.constellationbooks.com/event/tea-jagi-lamplighter-and-john-c-wright
November 13, 2012
NaNo Wri Mo Snafus
With the help of my spellchecker, I just wrote the line:
Rachel struggled not to burst into historical laughter.
Overheard at the Wright Household
Mom: "Orville, can you carry out the boxes in the hallway and put them with the recycling stuff outside for the trash?"
Orville: "Okay….I can't get the door open."
Mom: "Just a second."
Orville: "One Chimpansee." (the lenght of a second. My great uncle counted them in chimpansees. So do we. That's four generations of second counting.)
Mom: Comes over and looks at him, looking amused.
Orville, with a tiny impish smile. "That's not how you are supposed to respond."
Mom: "How am I supposed to respond?"
Orville: "You're supposed to say: 'Not that second.'"
(He got that from his father.)
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Juss has been making Origami Yoda, Darth Paper, Fortune Wookiee, Norm Troopers, and Han Foldo. All this, I am okay with. But I lost it when he came home with:
Darth Paper Towel.
November 8, 2012
NaNo Wri Mo
So…who is doing NaNo Wri Mo and what is your WIP?
I am not doing it, but I am making an extra push on my current project: The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin: Book Two–The Raven, The Elf, and Rachel.
November 5, 2012
Wonderful Christian Lecture–Saturday, November 10th at 2:30
Our church is sponsoring a lecture on Saturday, November 10th at 2:30 at the Chantilly Regional Library.
The subject is: Defeating Violence Through Prayer.
The lecturer is: John Quincy Adams, III
Normally, I would not make a big deal about a lecture, but this one is very special to me. In our church, we have a Teacher to whom we have a special relationship–similar to having a deacon as a mentor. This lecturer, John Quincy Adams, III, is my Teacher. He is an amazing person and a really excellent lecturer.
October 31, 2012
Excerpt from The Raven, The Elf, and Rachel
The three children: Rachel Griffin, her friend Sigfried Smith, and his girlfriend, Fearless Girl Report Valerie Fox, have just watched a group of adults repair a broken stone building with magic.
Wow!” Valerie snapped a last picture. “Why don’t they do repairs this way after storms and earthquakes? That would speed up disaster recovery more than ten thousand percent.”
“The Unwary would notice the magic,” Rachel said. “Though, occasionally, we do sneak in and do some repairs. Whenever you heard reports that something turned out not to be nearly as bad as first imagined? That was probably us.”
“But…why? Why hide? Why not tell everyone?” Valerie sat back down on the bed.
Rachel shrugged. “That’s just the way it’s done.”
“That’s stupid.” Sigfried complained over his shoulder. “What if we start telling people?”
“The Wisecraft sends out Obscurers to alter their memories,” Rachel shivered at the thought.
“What if I had my mother the reporter put it on the evening news?” Valerie asked. “Telling millions of people all at once.”
“Numbers don’t matter. ‘ Rachel replied. “Back in the last century, there was that astronaut who married a genie. It was reported all over the mundane press. Nowadays, the Unwary remember the events as if they had come from a television show.”
“You’re kidding, right?” Valerie stared at her. “You’re…not kidding.”
Dr. Doom Returns!
The lost Victor Von Doom doll has been found and reunited with his missing boot.
He is back in his cubby, and no longer striving to take over the world. The world is safe once again.
October 27, 2012
Appearing today! — At the Baltimore Science Fiction Club Roundtable
FANTASTIC HEROINES OF SCI FI & FANTASY
Authors Brenda Clough, Mindy Klasky, L. Jagi Lamplighter and Jeri Smith-Ready will talk about the heroine in literature, both in their own works and those that have influenced them.
* *Colleen Cahill, Library of Congress Recommending Officer for Fantasy and Science Fiction, will moderate what is sure to be a lively discussion.
October 25, 2012
The Strange Case of the Vanishing Dresses
When I was young, there was a cut of dress that had been around for about 50 year or so. People wore them. You saw them in old pictures. They were popular in a longer form during the Edwardian period. I saw them in real life. I saw them in photographs. I saw them on TV.
It was a dress that often had a yoked top or perhaps a sailor color with slightly raised arms at the shoulders, often in plaid.
And I cannot find ONE good picture of them online.
I thought you could find ANYTHING online.
It could be my that my Google Fu is weak. I've looked regularly over a period of two years. Spring and fall. I've tried all sorts of words. Still, I keep hoping there's a word out there that I haven't thought to use that would be the key.
I can find pictures of dresses from Disney's Avonlea TV show that would be great…just about what I wanted…if I could see them. But the character is always holding a book in front of the dress.
The really weird thing is: they still make dresses like that for little girls. Party dresses and Christmas dresses, made along the same lines. I can find pictures of those…but I cannot find any of the adult version.
When I was young, we girls wanted to wear those pretty party dresses because they were an indication of what we would dress like when we grew up. They were the little versions of what our parents and grandparents wore.
It is odd to have the little version still around…and not be able to find a single good picture of the adult ones.
Like this…but for big girls:
October 22, 2012
Overheard at the Wright Household
Bob, in his gentle voice: "Please be quite, Sir."
Abednego: "I'm trying but its hard."
Bob: "Is this because you are from Babylon?"
Abednego: "Yes, I babble on."
Also:
Juss, to his brother, who was trying to scratch him:
"Back, Back! My mom created you!" (instead of "I created you!" like Frankenstein."
