results of tired brain

[mrissa]

In case my last post -- which, due to the wonders of lj, will be my next post for most of you, unless you were reading at just the right time -- did not make it clear, I am still tired. The brain is not going particularly linearly.

I'm not sure that's an excuse for being hip-deep in a short story called "Uncle Flower's Homecoming Waltz," but it's all the excuse I have.

Possibly I could blame my upbringing. Hmm. That's always a fruitful tactic, and in this case it might even be justifiable. The people who raised me on folk songs and Jethro Tull Have Much To Answer For.

I have considered retitling this lj, "Force of Nurture." But I've also considered retitling it, "Get Off Me, I'm From Minnesota" (rejected due to unfriendliness) and "Still Kicking, No Daylight Yet," which only makes sense if you know one of the incarnations of "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" and isn't all that cheerful if you do. And I am, as we all know, a bloody-minded optimist.

Hmm. Perhaps "Pool of Congealing Daylight" is more like it.

Aaaaand perhaps I should go attempt to nap again, it having reached the fateful 4:00 hour when things look Worse, or sometimes just Sillier, and in either case get Capitalized more.

Comments

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Congealed daylight would be much cooler to find in a wizard's study than yet another stuffed crocodile. I swear, reading modern fantasy you'd think stuffed crocodiles and alligators are the give-away with the Wizard's Standard Set of Oddly Shaped Retorts and Beakers(tm), multicolored fluids sold seperately. I have yet to read a story where the stuffed beasty is used for anything; no magically animated guard crocodiles, no specially enchanted alligators to help induce sleep or smooth skin ('cause it absorbes all the wrinkles) no crocodilian familiars, stuffed or otherwise. ::sigh:: wizards may be an absentminded and sometimes whimsical lot, but you'd think anything as large and difficult to hang from one's ceiling as a stuffed alligator would have *some* use.

[eileenlufkin.livejournal.com]

"I swear, reading modern fantasy you'd think stuffed crocodiles and alligators are the give-away with the Wizard's Standard Set of Oddly Shaped Retorts and Beakers(tm), multicolored fluids sold seperately."

Well, duh. The Mad Scientist Kit has the same glassware, but the choice of finish on the stands is either chrome or matte black, instead of wood-grain or pewter, and includes a Jacob's Ladder.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Much as I hate to say it, I think stuffed alligator trumps jacob's ladder, as far as free give-aways go. I mean, considering all the nifty sciency kinda things they could be throwing in with the deal a few blocks and ribbon just don't compare to an ungly, musty, horse hair filled--can I re-think my answer?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hee. That wasn't even the second kind of Jacob's Ladder I thought of.

[eileenlufkin.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, I was afraid I'd misremembered what the electric-spark-between-two-posts-thing was called.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Nope, the designer of the 1994 Ralston High Science Club Halloween Booth declares that you have remembered correctly.

It was all about Jacob's Ladders and Monty Python.

Good times.