MissMeliss: Escribition

Because sometimes I like to be snarky, but it's a tone that doesn't mesh well with this blog, and because I've been encouraged to let my dark side out to play a bit, I've started yet another blog. LiveJournal folk will notice that as of yesterday, it's the new blog that is feeding to [...]

Saturdays, the Sci-Fi channel runs “b” movies, monster movies that are just as cheesy, as anything my parents might have grown up with, and while the monsters sport cgi blurs instead of zippers, at least the underbellies of tumbled trucks no longer read “Tonka.”
Today the theme is “vampires.” I love a good vampire story, [...]

In one corner there is the mosquito, buzzing annoyingly, constantly being batted away from the tender flesh it seeks. In the other corner, a yellow and black argiope spider, beckoning from her zigzag web. What ensues is not a prize-fight, but a duel to the death.
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“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.â — Edwin Way Teale

I am the first to admit that my relationship with spiders goes beyond mere sqickishness to full-blown phobia, but even so, when this latest guest arrived in my back yard my first thought wasn't [...]

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses front doors, please?
I'd really like to be able to include a different front door (they won't be identified) with each of my posts for the upcoming blogathon, so please, take a picture of your front door (or any front door on a house on your street) [...]

I saw this at Kristen's blog, and had to try it. (I don't do quizzes very often, and publish the results even less frequently, but it made me laugh.)
Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.
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Clay made this button for me, because he's a really nice guy, and a great friend, and yeah, okay, it's only a BUTTON, but I'm so groggy I can barely TYPE the word “button” let alone make one.
Thank you, Clay!
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I can't sleep, despite the fact that I took medicine which should have knocked me out, but I'm not really entirely coherent either. At least I can babble from bed, when I have moods like this. And you – you're the lucky folks who are being subjected to my recumbent ramblings.
- There needs to be [...]

Michele and Ginger both mentioned love letters in recent blog posts, and it's made me sit and think about the last time I really wrote a letter.
I used to be a prolific letter writer. I have a drawer full of interesting, pretty and artsy stationery, more pens than I care to count, pretty stamps, and [...]

I haven't been posting to this actual account very often since making the move to my own site, and an external blog, two years ago. But I've missed the interaction with all you LJ-ers – I know I have RSS feeds, but the thing is – if you comment on the RSS feeds I don't [...]