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stories for children
Oct. 6th, 2017 07:17 pmMandalina has a tattoo of the Bride of Frankenstein surrounded by roses and framed by lightning bolts, and a wolf's head pendant.
Emily is an artist too. That was obvious, as she was carrying a sketchbook and a board with her name written on it.
A woman with pale-colored hair had a t-shirt with the Grim Reaper with hearts for eyeholes holding a donut and it said DONUT KILL MY VIBE or something like that. It reminds me of "cave of GINTS. humunz keep away. we will eet you al up. this mean you. so stay away. we will eet you if we donut like you. THE GINTS" in Avernum. It also reminds me of Beets Don't Kale My Vibe which sounds like one of Bob's burgers of the day. She had tattoos of a luna moth (Actias luna) amongst flowers on one arm and roses on the other, and had cat-face stockings. A woman had blue hair in two braids and bright gold headphones.
To commemorate the restoration of a painting of Xin, a Thunder General, there's an exhibit with demons and demon quellers from Japanese, Korean, and Chinese myths, with demons tormenting sinners and a procession of a hundred demons (including one of those umbrella spirits you see in Super Mario Land 2 - in Japanese mythology, discarded household objects that survive 100 years are imbued with spirits) and one depicting a one-eyed goblin with a lolling tongue I remember from Mario Land 2 as well.
There's a stop-motion animation with porcelain dolls called Mr. Sea by Geng Xue, which is about a man who falls in love with a sea spirit in disguise and her husband, a giant sea dragon, is none too pleased with this.
There are German woodblocks, some expressionistic and freeform, some meticulously made from photograph references. She made a snowscape; took videos of a freeway and of the woods as she sped by; a plane sold to Germany during its controversial rearmament with a notoriously poor safety record; a recording shot with a video camera showing Allied bombers, with a moired pattern that makes it illegible.
I met two women with blue hair, one with tattoos and one with a t-shirt that said something like The Dream Guardians on it, and a sheepdog named Sully who is seven months old.
There's a convienence store that caters to Indians and Koreans and one that caters to Arabs and Turks.
I found this snack mix that reminds me of the Indian snack mix they had at Trader Joes and presumably discontinued before Leah was born.
The Aurora pub spicy blend is similar to the Szechuan snack mix.
The New England Conservatory did a double header: L'enfant prodigale by Claude Debussy and L'enfant et les sortilèges by Maurice Ravel (The Prodigal Son and The Child and the Spells, respectively)
In L'enfant prodigue, Lia (For some reason, he uses the Italian name Lia and not the French Léa or the English Leah) laments her son Azaël's disappearance, there's a dance, and Siméon is weary (possibly a Hebrew pun) of this, there's a dance, Azaël returns and reunites with Lia and they give thanks to God. It was never meant to be staged but sometimes they do anyway.
Debussy wasn't a Christian. He said that nature was his religion and that he doesn't practice religion in accordance with the sacred rites.
The plot to L'enfant et les sortilèges is as follows: The Child doesn't want to do his homework and is bored and restless and has a fit and the household objects come to life and torment him, and then he ends up in a forest, where all the trees and woodland creatures try to murder him but one of the squirrels is injured and he tends to her wound with a bandana, thus redeeming himself, and then calls out for his mother.
Ravel's opera was written between 1917 and 1925. It's rarely performed due to the difficulty of staging it, so what's the best way to handle that? By abstracting it, of course! The Child was dressed in a striped t-shirt, shorts, and a baseball cap. The furniture's clothing was patterned like upholstery. The clock was a man with a hat that the child knocked off his head and a red sash that the child threw into disarray, who gesticulates like a mad tin soldier. The teapot is a pugilist in a black singlet and fake mustache and he sang in English, which makes sense, while the china cup sings in nonsense that sounds more Turkish than Chinese. Whatever it is uses the letter Ç. The fire is a woman in a red dress. The white cat was a woman in a fuzzy jacket and the black cat was a man in a biker jacket and leather pants. They didn't say anything; they just meowed and hissed. Or miaou-ed and mao-ed. The guy who played the black cat was Korean but didn't nyaong. They're called the black cat and the white cat in the program but on Wikipedia they're merely le chat and la chatte. Sometimes the numbers are played by children but not here. My favorite number is ii, by the way. Yes, it's a real number. 0.207879596… The Princess is a woman in a blue dress and silver tiara, who laments not knowing what's going to happen to her The wallpaper doesn't get a part.
The frogs were played by people in tuxedos with bright green bow ties and bright green cummerbunds. I thought they were the trees at first. I dunno, frogs are green. They were going kekekeke which is Korean onomatopoeia for laughing and Zerg rushing and I guess maybe the French word for the sound a tree frog makes and also kek is Turkish for cake. They played leapfrog on stage. Ribbit, by the way, came into popular use because of the Pacific Tree Frog, which lives around Hollywood, and only the Pacific Tree Frog. To me, bullfrogs sound like lightsabers and spring peepers I mistake for crickets. The bat was a woman in a black shawl and black veiled hat. The squirrel was a woman in a brown dress. The Tree wore clothing of green and brown.
The score says that the fire, the princess, and the nightingale are to be played by the same singer but in this case, the princess was played by someone else. Arithmetic and the lead frog are played by the same person.
Gabriella was on a train where one of the parts broke and so it was an exceptionally bumpy ride, even more so than the one we were on.
I met a woman with blue hair and some kind of Caribbean accent who was also an artist and who liked Gabriella's clothes.
Gabriella had her hair in a knob encased by a metal cage with a swirl motif and with two sticks.
burning question: who would win in a riddling contest between The Riddler and Blaine the Mono? I know the Joker would win.
Emily is an artist too. That was obvious, as she was carrying a sketchbook and a board with her name written on it.
A woman with pale-colored hair had a t-shirt with the Grim Reaper with hearts for eyeholes holding a donut and it said DONUT KILL MY VIBE or something like that. It reminds me of "cave of GINTS. humunz keep away. we will eet you al up. this mean you. so stay away. we will eet you if we donut like you. THE GINTS" in Avernum. It also reminds me of Beets Don't Kale My Vibe which sounds like one of Bob's burgers of the day. She had tattoos of a luna moth (Actias luna) amongst flowers on one arm and roses on the other, and had cat-face stockings. A woman had blue hair in two braids and bright gold headphones.
To commemorate the restoration of a painting of Xin, a Thunder General, there's an exhibit with demons and demon quellers from Japanese, Korean, and Chinese myths, with demons tormenting sinners and a procession of a hundred demons (including one of those umbrella spirits you see in Super Mario Land 2 - in Japanese mythology, discarded household objects that survive 100 years are imbued with spirits) and one depicting a one-eyed goblin with a lolling tongue I remember from Mario Land 2 as well.
There's a stop-motion animation with porcelain dolls called Mr. Sea by Geng Xue, which is about a man who falls in love with a sea spirit in disguise and her husband, a giant sea dragon, is none too pleased with this.
There are German woodblocks, some expressionistic and freeform, some meticulously made from photograph references. She made a snowscape; took videos of a freeway and of the woods as she sped by; a plane sold to Germany during its controversial rearmament with a notoriously poor safety record; a recording shot with a video camera showing Allied bombers, with a moired pattern that makes it illegible.
I met two women with blue hair, one with tattoos and one with a t-shirt that said something like The Dream Guardians on it, and a sheepdog named Sully who is seven months old.
There's a convienence store that caters to Indians and Koreans and one that caters to Arabs and Turks.
I found this snack mix that reminds me of the Indian snack mix they had at Trader Joes and presumably discontinued before Leah was born.
The Aurora pub spicy blend is similar to the Szechuan snack mix.
The New England Conservatory did a double header: L'enfant prodigale by Claude Debussy and L'enfant et les sortilèges by Maurice Ravel (The Prodigal Son and The Child and the Spells, respectively)
In L'enfant prodigue, Lia (For some reason, he uses the Italian name Lia and not the French Léa or the English Leah) laments her son Azaël's disappearance, there's a dance, and Siméon is weary (possibly a Hebrew pun) of this, there's a dance, Azaël returns and reunites with Lia and they give thanks to God. It was never meant to be staged but sometimes they do anyway.
Debussy wasn't a Christian. He said that nature was his religion and that he doesn't practice religion in accordance with the sacred rites.
The plot to L'enfant et les sortilèges is as follows: The Child doesn't want to do his homework and is bored and restless and has a fit and the household objects come to life and torment him, and then he ends up in a forest, where all the trees and woodland creatures try to murder him but one of the squirrels is injured and he tends to her wound with a bandana, thus redeeming himself, and then calls out for his mother.
Ravel's opera was written between 1917 and 1925. It's rarely performed due to the difficulty of staging it, so what's the best way to handle that? By abstracting it, of course! The Child was dressed in a striped t-shirt, shorts, and a baseball cap. The furniture's clothing was patterned like upholstery. The clock was a man with a hat that the child knocked off his head and a red sash that the child threw into disarray, who gesticulates like a mad tin soldier. The teapot is a pugilist in a black singlet and fake mustache and he sang in English, which makes sense, while the china cup sings in nonsense that sounds more Turkish than Chinese. Whatever it is uses the letter Ç. The fire is a woman in a red dress. The white cat was a woman in a fuzzy jacket and the black cat was a man in a biker jacket and leather pants. They didn't say anything; they just meowed and hissed. Or miaou-ed and mao-ed. The guy who played the black cat was Korean but didn't nyaong. They're called the black cat and the white cat in the program but on Wikipedia they're merely le chat and la chatte. Sometimes the numbers are played by children but not here. My favorite number is ii, by the way. Yes, it's a real number. 0.207879596… The Princess is a woman in a blue dress and silver tiara, who laments not knowing what's going to happen to her The wallpaper doesn't get a part.
The frogs were played by people in tuxedos with bright green bow ties and bright green cummerbunds. I thought they were the trees at first. I dunno, frogs are green. They were going kekekeke which is Korean onomatopoeia for laughing and Zerg rushing and I guess maybe the French word for the sound a tree frog makes and also kek is Turkish for cake. They played leapfrog on stage. Ribbit, by the way, came into popular use because of the Pacific Tree Frog, which lives around Hollywood, and only the Pacific Tree Frog. To me, bullfrogs sound like lightsabers and spring peepers I mistake for crickets. The bat was a woman in a black shawl and black veiled hat. The squirrel was a woman in a brown dress. The Tree wore clothing of green and brown.
The score says that the fire, the princess, and the nightingale are to be played by the same singer but in this case, the princess was played by someone else. Arithmetic and the lead frog are played by the same person.
Gabriella was on a train where one of the parts broke and so it was an exceptionally bumpy ride, even more so than the one we were on.
I met a woman with blue hair and some kind of Caribbean accent who was also an artist and who liked Gabriella's clothes.
Gabriella had her hair in a knob encased by a metal cage with a swirl motif and with two sticks.
burning question: who would win in a riddling contest between The Riddler and Blaine the Mono? I know the Joker would win.
