Shirley's Mind Grapes

Shirley's Mind Grapes

The answers to questions nobody asked

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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 09/04/13

Dailies 09/04/13

Daily Doodle: Season’s Greetings

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Song of the Day: Bass Head by Bassnectar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRftXCiqfQ8

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m standing in front of a homemade contraption of wooden dowels and glass soda bottles. Each of the glasses are touching a dowel and I’ve attached an amp to the dowels by way of alligator clips. I am armed with two broken dowels and am hitting the bottles to the beat.

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Blurb 1/365: Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head. Wait, it’s not raining. Wait, I’m inside. Wait, I’m in the shower. Wait, I need to wake up.

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 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 08/26/13

Dailies 08/26/13

Daily Doodle: The World May Never Know

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Song of the Day: Art Star by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PBl2qsYtDo

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m singing lead on a tiny stage in a small venue. The drums take up most of the stage. The guitarist is behind the drummer stage right and I’m sitting on the left edge of the stage singing and screaming in a person’s face.

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Blurb 1/365: It’s best to ignore ignorance, but sometimes it’s really fun to get angry about it.

Dailies 08/24/13

Dailies 08/24/13

Daily Doodle: You Know, For Kids!

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Song of the Day: Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows by Lesley Gore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2sKH8yjVsM

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m doing the Charleston number that Pete and Trudy did on Mad Men.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7NLF6eNXNc

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Blurb 1/365: Short Fictional Story–JUMP

There aren’t many restrictions against Jumping. Security is so tight that if anybody tried to do anything, they’d just never Jump back. Some people have used it to purposefully end their lives: Suicide by Jump. If you talk to most people, they want nothing to do with it. There are too many politics involved. People get angry when they can’t change something that fails the Ripple. Even with the ability to time travel, evil sometimes still has to remain in history.

At first, Louie didn’t know if he should go; he didn’t know if he’d be able to Jump back. The case studies showed that he wasn’t in existence in 2045, but there was no record of his death.

He knew he would never leave her and that was enough certainty to make the decision. He was going to make the Jump and gather information to submit to the review board to test the Ripple. There was no guarantee, but if the Ripple passed, he could clear his name. He needed to clear his name so he could save her.