Good Morning!
It has been an exciting week – I finally at long
last was able to put the final conclusion and implications into the Millennial
Hotwired project and send it off to editors. I'm sure it will come back riddled
with red and questions, but at least the rough draft is done. I have to admit
that I've even gone back and been able to look at it with more of an editor's
eye and I've already changed some of the wording.
I think the biggest thing is how to make is more
personable instead of sounding like a 50 page research paper – dull and boring.
The information is good, the tone needs to be more pleasant. I had three pages
of information on the changes in society's view toward children and the
necessary elements of their education. It was an excellent sequential
"this is what happened" and it was boring, the point got lost, and by
the end of that part, even I didn't care anymore! I was able to craft it down
to three paragraphs.
I'm taking a workshop on Sunday on self-editing. I
know that it will be useful to me as well as my students. I'm looking forward
to the experience.
Last week saw the failure of one of the Virgin
Spaceships – it killed a pilot and sent another to the hospital. There was also
an explosion on the NASA pad of an Antares rocket carrying supplies and
scientific equipment to the space station. According to safety officers, the
rocket malfunctioned and needed to be destroyed.
Okay, so I'm not a great conspiracy follower, but to
have 2 major accidents in 7 days of each other is suspect. I'm just wondering
... I know that Russia will take a big monetary hit when the United States
begins supplying its own transportation to the International Space Station.
Just a thought...
Also in the news almost every day is "proof of
aliens" everywhere. The latest and maybe even the greatest was the death
bed video of Boyd Bushman, an Area 51 scientist, who revealed that aliens were not
only living among us; 19 of them worked for the Government. He classified
aliens as "Wranglers" and "Rustlers" and the
"Wranglers" were more friendly... I wonder if he's talking about the
political parties when he mentions "Rustlers" ...
This brings to mind the movie Cowboys and Aliens
starring Daniel Craig, (007) and Harrison Ford (Star Wars). Aliens come to
"wrestle up some humans" and only the cowboys and Indians stand in
their way. No virus takes them out, just a cowboy bent on their destruction.
We've also been inundated with pictures of human
pictographs on Mars and giant earth size space ships hiding in the corona of
the sun. The most recent is an elongated face that even has NASA scientists scratching
their heads. The seems to be a need to prove that Mars is a long abandoned planet
that once housed a prosperous and highly intelligent civilization. The need to
prove "we are not alone" seems to be running strong this year.
As I was growing up, one of my favorite, and
possibly the tipping literature that moved me into science fiction and fantasy
was Edgar Rice Burroughs "Barsoom
Series" – John Carter on Mars. That led to the Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. From then on I was hooked. Burroughs also wrote the Tarzan
series which I also read and thoroughly enjoyed.
As a side note, as I was looking into Burroughs' history,
I discovered that his great-grandson is the famed film maker, Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel). I've only
seen the Grand Budapest Hotel, but
one of my students did a research on Anderson's techniques last quarter and I
am truly impressed.
At Wormhole we are getting ready to showcase books
for December. We've got several that are outstanding and we'll pull the July
release books in too. I'm struggling with whether or not to pull the single
short stories that we've published this year into an Anthology. I'll let you
all know later.
On to riddles! Okay – my guess is Baseball!
I don't have a riddle for you this week, but I'll work on
and deliver at the next posting.
Have a great week everyone!
Carolyn
Images
retrieved from google images
UFO
filmed At Area 51 –Retrieved from beforeitsnews.com
The
Newsstreak: Review: "The Grand Budapest Hotel" retrieved from www.hhsmedia.com
Total
Baseball retrieved from totalsportscomplex.com
Scriber, B. (Oct. 30, 2014) Rocket destroyed on pad.
National Geographic. retrieved from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/10/141030-first-person-rocket-explosion-antares/
First to know. (Oct. 29. 2014) Watch: dying Area 51
scientist admits aliens are real. Retrieved from http://firsttoknow.com/area-51-scientist-speaks-out
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