The piece I wrote last night isn’t quite ready, my tasks outpaced my time available, and I really want something to be posted. Ergo….
THOSE WHO DAWDLE MUST STAND ON CURB
One of the best blues-rock live albums of my lifetime: “LIVE” FULL HOUSE by J. Geils Band, released 1972. “Whammer Jammer, lemme hear ya, Dickey!” and Mister Magic Dick on the lickin’ stick takes off with some serious Southside harmonica work. (YouTube also has a 1979 video of the band performing this onstage–worth it for Magic Dick’s bush of hair alone.)
Ideas I will never write (feel free to steal):
- I was only hunting moonbeams/But my eyes got in the way
- The scariest monsters don’t lurk under your bed. The scariest ones climb into bed with you and pretend to love you.
- “He’ll worry all about the bugs on the windshield but not about the car coming at him in his own lane.” Not sure where that is from. Was it me?
- Many people will travel the world on a regular basis but will be unfamiliar with the land and culture within a 300-mile radius of where they live.
all the voices in my head 
Awww… we should be kind to ducks and geese. (A moose told me that. And we should always believe a moose.)
About your story ideas. Here one play on a monster under the bed – this short film I once saw, brilliant and terrifying both. Mother comes into daughter’s room, lights dim. Small voice says, there’s a monster here with me. Mother’s hand reaches to her child’s forehead laying in the bed, there, there, it’s alright, I’m here with you. “Mother please, I’m scared,” the small voice pleads ad the mother realizes her child’s voice is coming from “under the bed.” Yikes! Could’a told it better, but you get the idea. I like creativity, even when scary.
Ooo, that’s good! So many ways it could go!
Good thing I took that photo this week. The entire stalk, bloom and all, was lying on the ground this morning. Either one of the spring showers we caught yesterday ‘pounded it into submission’ or a squirrel once again thought it could reach the bird feeder by climbing up the hydrangea. It wasn’t totally snapped off, so I tied it up to a stake. Hope it makes it.
Fabulous album!!🙂
That J. Geils Band concert was in Detroit. Peter Wolf, lead singer shouts: “Have you heard of the Philly Freeze? Have you heard of the Boston Monkey? We’ve got the Detroit Demolition for you here tonight!!” And in cuts J. Geils with a driving riff