My Weird World

Featuring:
Weird World I
Goddess Night Equinox & Bonnie's Birthday Celebration At Eris Temple
A few of my favorite things



Hey! Everyone, I know time between posts have been a little stretched, but  life gets in the way and things have been getting busy in my world.  But that doesn't stop me from wanting to share with you the things I encounter when I'm out and about.  This post is about the things seen and experienced that seem a little strange to me, but hey everything is weird depending on how you look at it. Let me take you on my weird journey which starts, oddly enough near home.

Weird World I
One of the weirdest things I saw was a bug! yes, a bug! I was doing my daily walk, trying to enlighten my mind and relieve a little stress by enjoying a beautiful day. I'm a cloud watcher and I see all types of animals and figures in the clouds.  What does this have to do with the bug? Nothing, just giving you a little visual perspective.Lol Seeing nature up close can be, well, weird. I saw this brown big eyed bug resting on the trunk of a tree.  It looked dead, upon closer inspection, I realized it was alive and kicking! I was so fascinated with it, I took a picture.  It could be a cicada or some other bug, don't know, just know that it has big eyes and it almost looks like part of the bark. I immediately started thinking about the show "Monster Bug Wars" on the National Geographic channel.  That's the show where they talk about the insects abilities, strengths and weaknesses and pit them against an opponent insect. They fight to the death! one eats the other.  I would like to think these aren't staged, but rather natural occurrences in the worlds of insects. I find this show fascinating, but I like nature shows, especially about insects!

Needless to say, I don't want them crawling on me, that equates to instant death for the insect, but I would like to examine them under a microscope. It seems kind of interesting to see them alive in their environment which often conflicts with my own, is fascinating. To dissect them and study them, is the ideal conflict and resolution to my bug fascination. In a previous post, I talked about the butterflies and dragonflies I encounter near my home.  To watch them flutter about, while not intruding in their world is almost meditative. One minute you see them, and the next they have blended into their surroundings.  My favorite is the preying mantis.  Several live in the bush that houses the schmoo outside my door. Love the way they capture and kill other insects that I find annoying, but they also bite off the heads of their male suitors after they have mated. Cool! Unfortunately, human females don't have that option, Damn!

The weirdness in the world isn't limited to insects. People are weird too and they ride metro!  There are the daytime weirdos but the night time weirdos are the best.  If you ever catch the last train of the night, a lot of them will be on the train. They usually spread out, some the only weirdo insight.  What makes them weird is not how they look, but how they act, sometimes it's a combination of both. Coming home Saturday from Philly, we were on the last train of the night.  We saw groups of people who had stayed at the local bar until the last call for alcohol stumbling their way onto the train. They were hilarious, they sway with the rhythm of the train and don't topple over. Weebles Wobble but they don't fall down! There were people who went to some secret costume party, but forgot to tell each other they were going, they come together on the train in some weird cataclysmic explosion, causing extreme eye/ear pain cause they are soo loud in every way.  But those who unknowingly make themselves look weird are best, they have no idea how they look! Weirdness is not limited to one place.  There was plenty of weirdness in Philly, which I will explore in Goddess Night. Read on!

Goddess Night Equinox & Bonnie's Birthday Celebration At Eris Temple

This past Saturday was my friend Bonnie's birthday celebration.   My husband and I left Saturday afternoon and rode up on the Megabus.  When we got there we went into the 30th street station to wait for our friend and use the bathroom.  While waiting, we stopped at the train station pub for a beer. I noticed that the mugs of beer seemed to glow on the bar.  I took a photo, the glow, not to prevalent in the photo, but I was interested in the reflections that the mugs and other bottles of alcohol showed. What I got was several beer guts and preoccupied patrons. oh well.  So I focused on the bottle line up and took a picture of that. What my eye saw and what the camera saw didn't quite mesh.  But that didn't stop me.

On our way to Bonnie's Bash.  It's also the Goddess Equinox, and I'm excited to see all the performers. The space was small and sparsely decorated, except for this circuitry board collage on the wall.  Bonnie is a founding member and editor of Certaincircuits, which publishes poetry, short stories, artwork. Calls for submissions go out regularly. Bonnie performed with her band. There was spoken word, face painting and beer.  The people were fun and very nice.  They made me feel welcome and wanted.  Sometimes artists don't feel that way in certain social situations. 

painted faces trio

Zig Zag Handmade

As the night progressed the painted faces and costumes really started to shine.  I missed the Zig Zag Handmade costume.  We had to be on the last bus back. But I did  get to talk to the girls with the painted faces and I met and talked to Stephanie Noor, who does spoken word. Her poetry was profound. A weird world of artists, of which I was a willing participant. 

Stephanie Noor

These are some of the photos from the party. Make sure you see me, got my face painted by Ebony Malaika Collier, I also bought one of her abstract pieces. It was a wonderful trip to Philly.  Always want to go the events Bonnie has, not always able, but its great when I can go. Bonnie looked great with her headdress, people were there in many different forms and fashions. Check out Certaincircuits.org created by artists for artists.  If your ever in the Philly area, stop and check out local events.  There's a lot going on!  Thanks Bonnie!

Bonnie

Moi

Jeanine Campbell & Lora Bloom

Bonnie, w/Lora Bloom & Jamie Campbell

A Few of My Favorite Things

Continuing on the weird world theme.  I am a big fan of graphic novels.  One of my favorites is Fables.  I love the fairytales with a twist! I have about eight books that contains issues 1-81. I'm behind on the story but that doesn't keep me from checking out whats next in the Fable world. I want to give you a clear concise over view of what these books are about so I did some research.  You may be surprised of how much TV has borrowed from this book and Grimm Fairytales.

Fables is a comic book series created by writer Bill Willingham, published by DC Comics's Vertigo imprint beginning in 2002. The series deals with various characters from fairy tales and folklore – referring to themselves as "Fables" – who have been forced out of their Homelands by "The Adversary" who has conquered the realm. The Fables have traveled to our world and formed a clandestine community in New York City known as Fabletown. Fables who are unable to blend in with human society (such as monsters and anthropomorphic animals) live at "the Farm" in upstate New York.

Willingham reinterpreted many of the characters, evident in the divorce of Snow White and Prince Charming due to his infidelity. Another principal character is the Big Bad Wolf (calling himself "Bigby"), who has not only reformed, but gained the ability to take on human appearance, and serves as Fabletown's sheriff at the series' beginning.

The main characters of Fables are public domain figures from folklore, mythology, and literature. Bill Willingham has said the only considerations in deciding whether or not he chooses to use a character are "is the character or story free for use?" and "do I want to use it?" Most of the characters seen so far are from European stories. The major exceptions are Arabian fables and American fables, from the fable world of Americana appearing in "Jack of Fables", such as Paul Bunyan, Black Sambo (now known as Sam) and the Lone Ranger. Most of these characters appear primarily in the Jack of Fables spin-off.

A television series based on Fables was put into development by NBC in 2005 for the 2006-2007 Television Season. The show received a script order and was developed by Craig Silverstein and Warner Brothers Television but was not developed any further than the scripting stage. NBC would later go on to produce Grimm, a police procedural set in a world where fairytales are real.

On December 8, 2008 it was announced that ABC had picked up the rights to develop a pilot of Fables for the 2009-2010 television season. Six Degrees creators and executive producers Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner were writing the script for the hour long drama, again set up at Warner Brothers Television, while David Semel had come on board to direct. There has been no news since concerning a series based directly on Willingham's series and, in late 2010, he said "[t]he TV show that was prematurely announced is probably dead." Instead, ABC has announced a new series called Once Upon a Time, which features fairy tale characters such as Snow White and Prince Charming exiled in the "real world". The show's creators, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, stated that they "read a couple issues" of Fables but believe that while the two concepts are "in the same playground," they are "telling a different story." Once upon a Time didn't do well in the ratings.



Grimm is back for season 2 on Fridays at 9pm. Grimm is an American police procedural fantasy television drama series. It debuted in the U.S. on NBC on October 28, 2011. The show has been described as "a cop drama—with a twist... a dark and fantastical project about a world in which characters inspired by Grimms' Fairy Tales exist," although the stories and characters inspiring the show are also drawn from other sources.

Homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt of the Portland Police Bureau learns he is descended from a line of "guardians" known as "Grimms," charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures (called "Wesen"; however the characters here use a mispronunciation of the German, rendering it like "vessin" instead of "vay-zen") of the world. Throughout the episodes, he must battle against an assortment of dangerous creatures, with help from his friend Monroe (who is a reformed creature), and his partner Detective Hank Griffin.

Many of the episodes are loosely based on stories written by the Brothers Grimm, albeit with considerable artistic license. Other episodes are based on other sources, including fables and legends, not written by the Brothers Grimm.

Funny how things that were popular when I was growing up are now popular again thanks to modern technology that can expand on the visual/special effects and make it more spectacular for today's audience. The realistic imagery that's depicted sets the imagination ablaze thinking that this could possibly be real. Grimm is a lot easier to follow, jumping back and forth between past and present became confusing and was one of the problems I felt existed in Once Upon a Time.  

Hope you enjoyed My Weird World. Maybe its not so weird to you, just the quirkiness of my likes and dislikes.  Either way, I can go from bugs, to graphic novels, to TV shows and monsters.  I am a true Dexter fan, love crime shows about serial killers, and people who kill, my favorite is  Deadly Women. I also read 100 Bullets, Sin City and other graphic novels dealing with killing and death in some way. This side is my "dark passenger",(as Dexter would say) it gets a thrill from all this. I personally, wouldn't hurt a fly......until it lands on me. lol

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