Cutthroat Competition
Lenore and Lynda are competing for the best scar from ovarian cancer surgery. Although Lenore's scar from her breast cancer surgery increases her total scarage, Lynda's stomach scar is longer and was cut into again for her second surgery. The prize is getting the most sympathy from the family. And you thought we only competed making puppets, writing sonnets and creating black velvet artwork. If you are squeamish, DO NOT GO HERE.
By the way, here is a list of our Christmas competitions:
- 1990 Write a Story based on a Edward Gorey drawing
- 1991 Make a 1992 Calendar
- 1992 Make pages for a Alphabet Book for Graeme
- 1993 Make a Mobile to hang in the Edisto house
- 1994 Karaoke Gilbert and Sullivan
- 1995 Puppets with a Purpose
- 1996 Touchy Feely Book for Little T
- 1997 Lawn Ornaments
- 1998 Poetry: A Limerick and then one other poetry form
- 1999 Mosaics
- 2000 Photography (Photography By The Numbers)
- 2001 Comic Strip
- 2002 White Trash Cooking Show
- 2003 Stuffed Toys
- 2004 Dioramas
- 2005 Black Velvet Art
Some more movie/DVD
reviews
Kilnieks
(Hostage) Lorella and I went to see this
Latvian movie directed by Laila Pakalnina that
was part of the European Union Film Festival. It
is a story of a hijacker who forces a plane to
land in Riga. He lets all the hostages go except
an 8 year old boy who asked to stay on the plane.
The story is about the hijacker and the boy's
friendship as well as about a number of
interconnected events that happen around the
airport involving racing cyclists, farmers,
detectives, biathletes, folk song choirs,
bunnies, dogs, cats, cows, bees. The director
manages to include many Latvian traditions and
favorite foods in the stories. It was quite
enjoyable although I am not really sure what
happened at the end. Even though we see the
hijacker and the boy sitting and talking in a
tree it is not clear if they got away clean,
died, or if they were just in the imagination of
some children playing in the sand. The film was
in English and Latvian. I recognized alot of
words but unfortunately my grasp of the language
has severely dwindled.