Meter Monday: Sending Faces

Cozy faces unrelated to poem!

Good morning (or afternoon), Spatulans. It’s Monday. Huzzah. Huzzah! It’s Meter Monday. Here’s a poem to start your day… or end your day. It’s got cozy blankets and… faces? Yeah, faces.

Here’s to seeing things differently, or looking outside the box. Here’s to cozy blankets, cozy faces, Meter Mondays, pareidolia, and delightfully crappy poetry. Here, here!

Sending Faces

There are faces in my blanket. When I close one eye

           They disappear. When I close the other eye

They appear in front of me covered up to their chins in my own down comforter snuggled up close,

           Eyes wide open or half shut winking

In

            And

                        Out

Of cotton blended dreams of human faces.

They are distorted as in yawn or big laugh

Both which sound like feathers falling from a pillow burst.

When I close one eye they disappear

Seeing faces in clocks too.

            But I know they are still there

Snoring behind a fold. When I close the other

They are there again. When I close both

            I know they are gone.

No longer waiting to be seen. They have

Vanished like a magician’s trick:

Hands waving over a dove

            And

                        Poof

The movement of my body

Sends shapes to new places.

Whimsy Wednesday: HTDA

So, I've not done a How To Do Alone post in a long time. I thought an HTDA: Valentine's Day edition would be fun. First, I'd like to say that I feel Valentine's Day really is just another day and you can do this ooey gooey stuff on any random Thursday, and probably should because you are a total fox who needs to be celebrated every day. Second, you can totally admit the "fundamentally commercialized nature of the holiday and reject it on economic/femenist/smart human grounds" (Thank you Sarah Cadence, babe at Damn Girl Get Some). Third, of course you can totally enjoy the hearts and chocolate covered things and excessive use of pink if that's your thing.

I'm just here to make really bad "how to" blog posts, because I like to make them: they make me giggle and I like to giggle. I also like to laugh, and eat cheese fries every Thursday...

I also thought I'd try something different. Instead of writing out what to do, what you need, where to go, what I did, I decided to video everything and just make this HTDA watchable. If you like the video way better let me know. Also, let me know if you prefer the written way.

Anyway, here are two versions: a short version and a longer version. They're kind of whimsical and silly. This is why they are being posted on Whimsy Wednesday.

The Short Version

The Longer Version

Time Out Tuesday: Valentine's Day (sorta?) Edition

Maybe, Valentine's Day really is just another day. Maybe, Valentine's Day is really corporation blah-blah. Maybe, Valentine's Day is pretty great because... it snot? Maybe, you need a Time Out from chocolate covered hearts, stars, horseshoes, and blue moons. I dunno. Maybe this Time Out Tuesday: Valentine's Day Edition post isn't really about Valentine's Day at all. Maybe this is just a list of things that I thought were neat.

Chocolate is best any time. Even in Time Outs.

For those of you not feeling the warm fuzzies of Valentine's Day... here is a list of the bloodiest anime series ever.

Have you ever hitchhiked? I have, but me hitchhiking wasn't nearly as cool as this guy hitchhiking.

These large format photographs of the Olympics are really beautiful.

This is a camera made of Popsicle sticks!

Neil Patrick Harris has Puppet Dreams. Here is how they made the puppet dreams.

Here are some Instagram photos of the blizzard in the Eastern US.

Here is Bill Nye the Science Guy talking about the blizzard in the Eastern US.

Less complaining. More sexy rumpus.

Cause, Shiny.

Valentine's Day card ideas for those who have to make them but don't want to.

Dead bodies are rising from their graves in Montana and I didn't even know about it until it was revealed to be a hoax.

Speaking of dead bodies, here's a Neil Gaiman story.

And now for something completely different: Who doesn't love Shakespearean insults?

Emergen-C for your ego! I kill myself.

Here is a cool inside look at the Ocracoke, NC lighthouse.

Think you have a pretty cool job? So does this zoo keeper who dresses up like a zebra.

Feeling down this Valentine's Day? Here are some emergency compliments. It's like a packet of Emergen-C for your ego! Maybe... kinda... just go with it.

This is one reason why I love Jhonen Vasquez.

Soundtrack Sunday: Valentine's Edition

It comes. That day. You know. I'm not going to say it. What I am going to do is post two playlists for "that day". One for those who, you know, do. One for those who, well, don't. And let it begin!

For Those Who Do:

    For Those Who Don't:

Whimsy Wednesday: Magical Musical Gloves

This video will make you so many things: giddy, squee-ish, happy, inspired. It may also make you pee your pants. Just warning you.

Meter Monday

I would like to apologize in advance for anyone who doesn't know about a *wee* little thing I have for Richard Armitage. I think after you hear him read some Coleridge you'll understand. 

xoxo,

Lucy.

Soundtrack Sunday

Good morning, Spatulans. So, we are back from our break  *cough*sabbatical*cough*  and I am so glad to be back here writing for you. I'm so glad, in fact, I made this Soundtrack Sunday special, just for you. Please to enjoy and have yourself a little pants-off dance-off before you go back to work on Monday.

Back in the Saddle Again

Hey, Folks!- It looks like our vacation lasted a little longer than expected! *cough* understatement*cough* But now that we've ironed out a few issues we are back and better than before! (Well, we have new shoes and full ink pens anyway.)  

I hope that you'll enjoy some of the things that we have in store for you! Here's what our posting schedule will look like so you'll have some idea of what to expect.  

Soundtrack Sunday: Sets the tone for the week with something to groove to.
Meter Monday: We shell out our favorite poems while wearing spiffy berets.
Time Out Tuesday: Time to chill out with a roundup of links on the neenernet.
Whimsy Wednesday: We could all use a dose of Whimsy in our lives.
Things I Love Thursday: A lil bit of love for the things that keep us going.
Free For All Friday: Batten down the hatches! We unleash our crazy! :)
 
Thanks to everyone who has with us and all the lovely new readers we have! We hope you enjoy. 

It's good to be back. ;) 


Love & Magic,

Lucy.   

 

Meter Monday: William Wordsworth

Dear Fantastic Spatula,
Lucy, Clara and S. Kemp have decided to take a summer vacation from posting. They are going to go do some much needed magic making. But don't worry, they'll start posting again on September 1, 2012. Then they'll be all refreshed and shiny. They hope that all of their dear readers enjoy their summer and make much magic. Here is a poem about daffodils and wandering.
xoxo

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

I wandered lonely a a cloud

Daffodils tossing their heads

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -and gazed- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

-William Wordsworth

Fantastic Sunday

Here is some music for your Sunday. All the songs have to do with Sunday. And the playlist is in really bright, neon, annoying, Sunday colors. Enjoy!