Imagining books and music in quirky and creative ways
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1) Cook the Books
How. Dare. You.
2) Beard the lion in his den
“Would you like a goatee or Van Dyke?”
ROOOAAAAAARRR!
“Van Dyke it is.”
3) Sell something for a song
Pop stars would be rich. Oh wait— Continue reading “10 More Ridiculous Idioms”
1) Under the weather
Well, we’re all technically under the weather…or in the weather…and what kind of weather are we talking about? Sunshine? Clouds? Storms?
2) It’s all Greek to me
I have just one question: what do the Greeks say?
3) Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Whoever makes egg cartons has obviously never heard of this. Continue reading “Top 20 Ridiculous Idioms”
I have recently been nominated for two blogger awards: the Liebster (I love how that just autocorrected to Lobster) and the One Lovely Blog award, so I’m just going to tackle them both in one post!
But first of all, thanks so much to Erika Kind (Liebster) and Susanne Valenti (One Lovely Blog) for the nominations!
So here are 7 (quirky) facts about myself:
1) At my 16th birthday party, I accidentally set my hair on fire. My mother and friends had just finished singing Happy Birthday to me when it fell into the candle flames on my birthday cake. I was concentrating so hard on blowing out all 16 candles in one breath that I didn’t even notice…I just saw my friends staring at me with wide eyes and heard my mom shouting my name and clapping her hands against my hair. Oops.
2) Freshman year of my undergraduate experience my roommate and I teamed up to kidnap our friend’s mannequin. Where we left ransom notes, he responded with Pulp Fiction quotes thrust under our door. But hey, he started it by scaring me half to death with that mannequin just chilling in our shower. So I have no regrets. (P.S. for those of you who may be wondering, we did–of course–eventually give it back.)
3) A tree frog jumped on my face once in elementary school. We were Continue reading “7 Quirky Things About Me + 11 Questions Answered”
Ludwig van Beethoven: Mind control
How else could he have ignited the fierce battle that took place between Brahms and Wagner? They were both so obsessed with pursuing Beethoven’s legacy that they must have been under his power.
But before you go thinking he’s a supervillain like Loki, he also wrote some pretty different music that stretched the boundaries of what was acceptable at that time, and everyone loved it. We still love it today. So he used his powers for good, too (wait…could we still be under his superhuman influence??).
W.A. Mozart: Super speed Continue reading “Did You Know That Classical Composers Were Superheroes?”
If Mermaids Wore Suspenders 