Friday, November 16, 2018

Written ePistle


Famous First Words: Not very far from Upton-on-Severn... --Radcylff Hall Well of Loneliness
November is Novel Writing Month. Here are some titles that need need to be written. Series: Brett Kavanaugh, Boy Detective... Brett Kavanaugh and the Hashish Hallucination / Brett Kavanaugh, Caught in Squee's Closet
..........Touched by Thy hand of love, we wake..........Chorus …..Morning Hymn (Sound of Music)
Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord...harmony. --Laini Taylor
It is a frosty Friday morning. A 31°F temperature has laid a coat of white across grass and car window. There is no wind to work the cold into my clothing or to awake the resting willow branches. The azure blue sky is absolutely clear of clouds and jet trails. Oaks and the willow are still leaved but the other trees are looking bare and scraggly; half the grass is brown but the other half clings to green. A murder of unseen crows drowns out all other sounds creating a squawk that moves from west to east. Puck, having spent the week not walking down this street, is sniffing crack and crevice, every tall weed and short stone. I do not detect any aromas or odors only winter. Until we come back to the house and the smell of brewing coffee greets me. Now I sit and sip my decaf diluted with half and half and artificially sweetened...aahh...and write to you. Double ahh
Hope your weekend is a best seller, ePistliers.
Mike Pence, Modern Pharisee... You Are Different And That Is Bad / Downfall: The Man Who Sat At Table With Women
..........Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wing..........Maria …..My Favorite Things (Sound of Music)
Trivia Questions: It is National Children's Book Week...what do you know about children's book awards?
^ How many of the big 4 award's can you name?
^^ The first Newbery winner was The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon. Care to guess which year or decade it was awarded?
^^^ The first Caldecott was awarded in 1938. Any idea which book or illustrator won?
^^^^ Do you know anything about the first book to win the Coretta Scott King Award?
^^^^^ How about anything at Pura Belpre for whom our last award is named?
Vacation Update: I had a great time but I'm still recovering. Details next week.
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If you are buying smart water for $4 a bottle. It's not working. --Submitted by bd of ny
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: Librarians in meetings: *43% always cold; *43% always hot; *14% wearing a buttoned cardigan under an unbuttoned cardigan https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Mitchell McConnell, Political Fortuneteller... The Poor Don't Deserve A Future / Your Future Doesn't Exist
..........You can sing most anything..........Maria …..Do Re Mi (Sound of Music)
Moonbeam: It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. --Tiberius Caesar
Something to Think About of the Week:

Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: There are 12 days of Christmas, none of which are in November.
Week of the Week: National Bible Week (11/11-17) –If the Bible had been written by college students, instead of creating the world in six day, God would have put it off until the night before it was due and pulled an all nighter.
Steve Bannon, Border Doctor... Brown Skin Disease / The Surprise At The End Of The Detention Center
..........Totally unprepared am I..........Liesl …..Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Sound of Music)
^ 1) Newbery Medal – awarded by the American Library Association annually to an author. 2) Caldecott Medal – awarded annually by ALA for most distinguished American picture book 3) Coretta Scott King Awards – awarded annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values & one for Illustrator 4) Pura Belpré Awards is awarded annually by the American Library Association honoring a Latino writer illustrator whose children’s books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience.
Almanac: It is Friday, November 16, 2018. The moon was first quarter yesterday and is in Pisces. It is International Day for Tolerance, Button Day, and Guinness World Record Day.
Among those born on this day were Tiberius Caesar (42 BCE), W. C. Handy (1873), George S. Kaufman (1889), Burgess Meredith (1908) and Lisa Bonet (1967).
On November sixteenth Kentucky became the first state to nullify an act of Congress (1798), Oklahoma became the 46th state (1907), the Federal Reserve System opened for business (1914), the Hungarian people declared themselves a republic (1918), The Sound of Music opened on Broadway (1959) and Nixon authorized the Alaskan pipeline (1973).
Night Sky, 11/16: The major main belt asteroid, Juno, will reach opposition. At that time, Earth will be passing between the asteroid and the sun, minimizing our distance from Juno and causing it to appear at its brightest and largest for this year. The magnitude 7.45 object will be visible in binoculars and small telescopes all night long. Juno will be positioned about equally distant from the bright stars Aldebaran in Taurus and Rigel in Orion. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max Picture of the Week: R2D2Max

This Week: Saturday, November 17 – Homemade Bread Day & National Unfriend Day & National Day of Play
Night Sky,11/17: Leonids Meteor Shower peaks tonight. Up to 15 meteors per hour.
Sunday, November 18 – Mother Goose Day & National Princess Day
Monday, November 19 – Have A Bad Day Day & World Philosophy Day
Tuesday, November 20 – National Entrepreneurship Day & Transgender Day of Remembrance
Wednesday, November 21 – World Hello Day & Tie One On Day
Thursday, November 22 - Thanksgiving
Paul Ryan, Secret Insurance Agent... You Killed John Galt / Poor People Actuaries Don't Count
..........But her penitence is real..........Margaretta …..Maria (Sound of Music)
^^ The first Newbery was awarded in 1922 to Hendrik Willem van Loon for Story of Mankind. Other nominees were The Great Quest by Charles Hawes / Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall / The Old Tobacco Shop by William Bowen / The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who lived before Achilles by Padraic Colum / The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs
'Nother Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If it's true that stress brings on weight loss, why the heck am I not invisible by now?
Moonbeam: Epitaph for a dead waiter – God finally caught his eye. --George S. Kaufman
Top Ten Late Night Snacks: Top 10 Marion Barry Excuses
10. Went to hotel for free HBO.
9. Used drugs to escape daily nightmare of having first name "Marion."
8. Just helping out Dick and Ed with their "Bloopers and Practical Joke" show.
7. As mayor has duty to greet foreign dignitaries -- you know, like from Columbia.
6. Bush asked him to buy it so he could hold it up during next TV speech.
5. Started as craving for mints on pillow -- and then just got out of hand.
4. Doing what he could to keep drugs from our young people.
3. Always thought that frying egg in TV drug commercial looked pretty good.
2. Drug dealers?! I thought they were prostitutes!
1. If buying crack and getting high in cheap hotel rooms is a crime -- why isn't Barbara Bush in jail?
Not So Late Night Snacks: You know who might, who is actually quietly putting together... maybe, a challenge to Trump is Mitt Romney. He's going to be elected to the senate next week and he's going to his slogan is going to be, "Mitt Romney, I don't look so bad now, do I." --Peter Sagal Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
Peace is always beautiful. --Walt Whitman Leave of Grass
Betsy DeVos, Au Pair Fameux... Xanax Recipes For Tweens / The Gun In Teacher's Desk (Another Accidents Can Happen Adventure)
..........My heart will be blessed..........Captain …..Sound of Music (Sound of Music)
^^^ The first Caldecott was awarded to Dorothy P Lathrop for the Book Animals of the Bible. Runners up were Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Robert Lawson) and Seven Simeons (Boris Artzybasheff)
Worthless Fact of the Week: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act of 1973 authorized the building of an oil pipeline connecting the North Slope of Alaska to Port Valdez. Specifically, it halted all legal challenges - filed primarily by environmental activists - against the construction of the pipeline. The act is found in title 43, section 1651 of the United States Code (43 U.S.C. § 1651). Eventually, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was built as a result of this act. ~~Which Zonker (Doonesbury) called a Sap Bath
Wicked Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: You know you're getting old when you fall down and wonder what else can you do while you're down there.
Weird Word of the Week: Humicubation – Latin to lie down on the ground (source of cubicle) –maintained by people who create lists of obscure words... http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-hum3.htm
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Keep shampoo from getting in a baby's eyes. Rub a line of Vaseline Petroleum Jelly above the eyebrows so shampoo runs off to the side. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/vaseline.html
Mathew Whitaker, Lawyer to the Ones that Matter... Laws Are To Laugh At / Cocaine Is The Metaphor
...........I'd like to stay and taste my first champagne..........Liesl …..So Long, Farewell (Sound of Music)
^^^^ The first Coretta Scott King award was given the the author, Lillie Patterson for Martin Luther King, Jr: Man of Peace in 1970.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Dear People citing the Bible: It's a cool book with some wonderful passages but it also has ghost sex & giants & super babies & demons. It's why we don't make laws based on Game of Thrones, My Little Pony or Legend of Zelda. --Patton Oswalt --Submitted by db of ks
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: 81st Philcon,(11/16-18, Cherry Hill, NJ) --cutting-edge programming about literature, art, television, film, anime, comics, science, gaming, costuming and cosplay, music, and other topics https://philcon.org/
Top Ten Date of the Week: January 19, 1990
Actual Science Convention of the Week: ICBSB 2018 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Signal and Bioinformatics_Ei,Scopus http://www.allconferences.com/c/icbsb-2018-3rd-international-conference-on-biomedical-signal-and-bioinformatics-ei-scopus-singapore-2018-november-16
Puck the Brave Episode of the Week: Here's our fearless Puck “smiling” in the case of the Humble Hyena.
Scott Pruitt, Surfer Dude... Dead Whales Don't Wave Back / Plastic Island Has Super Curls
..........You look happy to meet me..........Captain …..Edelweiss (Sound of Music)
^^^^^ Pura Belpré was the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City. She was also a writer, collector of folktales, and puppeteer.
Month of the Week: November is National Impotence Month –New Viagra slogans: Viagra, when it absolutely, positively has to be there tonight / Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My stomach in flat, the “L” is silent.
Grammar Joke of the Week: An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
Today's Peace of Woman's History, November 16, 1928: An obscenity trial began for Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well of Loneliness." Great Britain banned it for its treatment of lesbianism, though it contained no explicit sexual references.
Paul Manafort, International Man of Mystery...War and Riches / From Russia With Money
..........Nothing comes from nothing..........Captain & Maria …..Something Good (Sound of Music)
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle November 16, 2018, Written ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Peace, Laughs, and Literature. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr, Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam: Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. W.C. Handy
Cost of War:
As of 11/15/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,872,915,357,746.
As of 11/1/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,868,868,232,307.
As of 11/15/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $861,777,513,701.
As of 11/1/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $859,027,028,869.
As of 11/15/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $633,034,665,420.
As of 11/1/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $629,576,945,604.
As of 11/15/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $299,507,898,994.
As of 11/1/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $298,722,050,579.
As of 11/15/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,667,236,302,558.
As of 11/1/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,656,195,202,781.
...and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. --Ruskin Bond
..........follow every rainbow..........Mother Abbess …..Climb Every Mountain (Sound of Music)
Debbie Cox, Freedom Fighter... Get The Hell Out Of Dodge / I Meant It, I Have A Voting Machine And I'm Not Afraid To Hack It
Famous Last Words: ...disclaims all liability to any person for any loss caused by errors or omissions in this document. Constitution of the State of Oklahoma
May Peace provide the words
And Joy compose the music
prairie mama
christine


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