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te something myself and then happily start my day with random words of kindness you supplied in the comments along the way it s like having a gently lit christmas tree in your pocket changing colors for a moment so that you can remember the joy of family when you least expect it and never would have thought to ask it these days i love you jenny posted by jenny jenny flannery at 2 52 pm 7 comments tuesday november 19 2013 comparative literature breaking bad and 19 kids and counting i like having two shows going at the same time on netflix right now it s breaking bad and 19 kids and counting i ve been struck by the commonalities of both shows both portray american families and their struggles and how they problem solve e g both the whites and the duggars hold family meetings to address issues michelle duggar teaches a class of around 20 students and so does mr white both sets of parents try to protect their respective families from harm and influence from the outside world they are all nerdy the health of one parent is the focus of the show and the family pregnancy for michelle and lung cancer for walt sr both families drive used cars both families leverage what they have for the most possible gain i could probably go on i love both of the shows equally after being equally squicked out by both at first and i love the idea of one of those worlds bleeding together in my imagination literally posted by jenny jenny flannery at 11 35 am 6 comments monday august 05 2013 meetings a poem i snuggle under your blanket of words made drowsy by its weight its volume my eyes fight the light as you tuck me in phrase by prepositional phrase murmurs on the edges lull me and i drift into my doodled abstractions absorbed by patterns and angles until you snick closed the slide show and open windows i take my leave and find coffee posted by jenny jenny flannery at 4 38 pm 2 comments thursday november 01 2012 november limbo these are the good things that are coming new position at work research analyst 12 1 thanksgiving 11 29 christmas 12 25 redacted we ll talk more later posted by jenny jenny flannery at 1 06 pm 4 comments wednesday june 20 2012 raising gamers it s finally happened my kids have taught me how to play a video game ever hear of minecraft it s a spiffy little product that was developed by some programmers and set loose on the world a whole community has risen up and produced hours of video and tomes of information about how to play the game there are also many songs written about it parody s of other songs mostly that we ve all had a lot of fun with it it s great because there is no walk through or instruction guide you ve got to discover what to do and my kids did just that then they showed me how to get started and how to get help it s now become a family passion the best thing about this experience for me is that it reminds me that i need to be who i am i used to hide the fact that i am a gamer thinking maybe that i would be perceived as immature so i wouldn t engage with others about it i just pulled the blinds and huddled in a corner to play civilization until my eyes bled or i d game with a few close friends but i was raised a gamer myself my dad took me to arcades every saturday where he would spend one quarter on donkey kong and i would spend many on several of my favorite games then we got an odyssey system followed by an atari 800 followed by a nintendo super nintendo etc and i didn t have to ask for one of these they were my dad s and he was my guide through the digital playland and i ve spent a lot of time with doc helping the girls find their way too and now they are showing us the way using terms like n00b biome wiki and they re good little teachers too as a result our new family obsession is minecraft we look at the world together as a place to be chopped picked and slashed at we try to keep safe and watch out for zombies we get lost then find our way it s totally awesome i mean epic as the kids are saying posted by jenny jenny flannery at 1 00 pm 4 comments monday january 16 2012 f3 cycle 63 hush prompt you know something but you do nothing ever no matter what happens length let s do it between 500 and 1500 words style noir psychological thriller or horror deadline wednesday january 18th 9 00pm micky she gasped you can t say a word to no one but i stammered not a word she breathed i watched her the sweat on her brow shimmered in the amber light at the back of the store room i could still smell the burnt gunpowder drifting up from the mauser at my feet as i pressed my too small pocket square against her gut wound miranda i begged i have to tell them what happened here you can t she said joey he didn t know what he was doing what should i say i pleaded they re going to come after me you know it i don t know mick she closed her eyes and swallowed you ll find the way out you always do dammit all my eyes started to fill with tears she was too young too good goddammit all to hell i ve loved her all my life and now she was slipping away because some stupid fool didn t get that sometimes goodness could really be pure and not a ploy he couldn t believe her heart was still golden i know i can count on you micky i can count on you right keep this quiet so joey isn t ruined he didn t mean it she opened her eyes and looked into mine promise to hush i promise miranda i said choking as the doom slid down my back cross my heart hope to die she said as her eyes closed and her last breath fell from her lips sirens began their distant cries as the boys in blue made their way to the docks it was an election year so the cops were on high alert and quick to respond even in this neck of the woods they had a point to prove to the voters i guess they had to show that they were worth all that tax money on an off year i d have had time to get her out of this dump ditch the gun have her funeral and sing at her wake before they would have known she was dead lucky me i couldn t run i couldn t leave her here like this let em find me i could go for a good round or too with a fresh faced rookie with a new billy club to try out served me right for missing clues for trusting i could hear their cars screech to a halt right outside the loading bay jesus christ joey must have told them exactly where to go no one else was around i know i staked the place out for 18 hours before joey and miranda showed up his goons in tow not a soul around unless you count the dearly departed souls of the dead fish that crowded up around the docks what the hell to say i had to figure something out joey and miranda and i all grew up together on buckeye street stick ball kick the can hide and seek you name it we played it thick as thieves we were joey though he always had that something extra about him something special people just wanted to be around him but miranda and i were the only ones he wanted around him i always knew why miranda was in his inner circle but not me i suspect it was because of miranda she could tell we were good for each other he would draw me out of myself and i would help him stay in check it all worked out pretty good until the war of course i went to germany and joey went to the pacific an officer we changed devolved maybe we came back different that s for sure he was a war hero on the fast track to political stardom and i was trying to turn my mp experience into something worth a damn the police force wouldn t have me they said i d have to go through the academy first turns out my military police experience and a quarter would get me a cup of coffee in this town and that was about it you d think joey would have pulled some strings not that i asked but still i ended up checking out insurance fraud cases and spying on spouses while joey hit the big time first on the city council and now as a state senator he was also making a play for miranda and she was falling for him she could see his good intentions better than anyone and she believed in him in me she couldn t see how war tore up a man left him less than ideal to her we were both just bigger versions of our childhood selves it was intoxicating really to be thought of that way to be with someone who believed the best of you always she was worried about joey though and hired me to watch out for him be his guardian angel she said well what i saw i didn t like but there was no convincing her freeze a voice heavy with authority yelled in my direction i looked up and saw a hulking figure outlined in moonlight pointing a gun in my baby blues hey officer i said cool as a jello hands up he barked i looked down at miranda one last time and whispered thanks sweetheart see you in the funny papers i kissed her forehead and slid my arms out from around her setting her down gently even with the pall her face was more beautiful then i ever remembered it being i said hands up you got it sir i said as i put my hands above my head as instructed did you shoot that woman he asked his voice shook a tiny bit and i knew i was in the presence of a gallant rookie what do you think well i see you and a gun and a dead woman alone on the docks i ve got to believe there s a good chance you shot her that figures i smirked couldn t possibly be anything else that s what they teach you in the academy right evidence don t lie punk that s your opinion and opinions are like assholes everyone has one it only took him three strides with his meaty legs to make his way from the door to me and bring the butt of his gun down on the back of my neck knocking me to the floor and the wind out of my lungs it was going to be a long night a night where i had to tell the truth but not the whole story the best i could hope for was the better angel of joey s nature would kick him in the ass and he d figure out a way to protect mine i m not holding my breath on that one though maybe joey will get scared start thinking about the good old days and remember the blood oath the three of us took remember that it wasn t kids stuff it was real he could remember how it was how miranda thought it still was he s not going to hear about it from me though a promise is a promise and a deathbed one more so it s not like i haven t had the shit beat out of me before it s just been a long time since i ve had it done professionally you have the right to remain silent he began as the rest of his buddies crowded through the door i have every intention to i thought as the room went dark posted by jenny jenny flannery at 4 01 pm 9 comments sunday november 20 2011 a dream come true uncle ralph lives i haven t been blogging everyday for november but i have been working on a creative project see above it all started when we went to my sister in law s house for halloween alicia and her husband rick are unstoppably creative for example they have built a spook house in their basement that they keep up all year around and change every couple of months it is outstanding and imaginative while we were at their house the kids were watching a rankin bass halloween movie mad monster party i watched a bit of it and was entranced as usual with the puppetry and animation i wandered out on the enclosed porch with my brother in law rick he was puffing on a pipe and i started telling him about how i ve always wanted to make a stop motion animation film why don t you he asked well i d need a script i said he didn t say anything we looked out over the foggy valley beyond the rocky fork creek that runs in front of their house then a thought occurred to me i have a ton of material all of the uncle ralph stuff i ve written here all of a sudden the penny dropped and i suddenly knew how i could make it all happen i also felt super grateful for rick s capacity for silence that gave me room to make this discovery i moved away from all the obstacles and into the realm of the possible doc and i started talking about it on the way home from their house then we decided to make it happen we are fortunate that we live in speedy s old house speedy and his wife bought this house in the 50 s when it was new and lived a very long and happy life together if the love notes that are still taped to the inside of cupboard doors have anything to say about it speedy was a handy man and a shelf builder extraordinaire so we had tons of materials to start this project we began by building the set with a large piece of particle board about 4x4 i had purchased a 30 circular saw and we angled the sides in slightly once that was built and suspended over two steel saw horses doc set the latter on top of it and climbed up into the rafters in our garage to pull down several pieces of paneling press board and mdf that speedy had stashed away for a rainy day we also pulled down an ancient pair of wooden saw horses who gave their life and 2x4 s to support our walls after a few trips to pat catan s or pakistan s as my grandma jean used to call it with scotland the capn and elizabeth we were ready to design and dress the set and finish making uncle ralph who is a drawing dummy under all that felt i recorded scotland doing the voice for uncle ralph the wallpaper and floor are contact paper doc made the wainscoting elizabeth covered the straw chair in felt and stuffing and doilies and the kids decorated the tree we were nearly finished and ready to film or so i thought but doc insisted that we build him a fireplace i m glad we did it is a block of 2x4 s glued together another gift from speedy doc cut out the fireplace part and painted it a shiny silver selected from speedy s vast collection of spray paint then we broke up a piece of speedy s slate and hot glued the pieces to the front of the fireplace now we were ready it was doc and me in the garage on a very cold night we set the tripod and the camera we watched listened to short pieces of the video of scotland and started filming at first we tried to animate every single syllable we were sure it would take us days we spent about three painstaking hours doing this doc would move the felt lips and the wooden arms and i would hold the camera in place and take the pictures we thought we maybe had 10 seconds of material then i loaded all the pictures into movie maker and the voice track we set the pictures to 1 second duration and let her rip we were confused to see that the images didn t exactly line up to the speech we thought we were animating but we were pleasantly surprised by the fact that it didn t really matter the movements matched the words for the most part and the unsteadiness of the camera gave it a super 8 effect totally the look i was going for so after some careful cutting and pasting we had a complete short film now all we needed was the music doc and i went back and forth about what we should do he suggested i play the piano i wanted something better than that so i convinced him to check out the royalty free music on istock photo we found the perfect music the first flakes of christmas it was so earnest and heartfelt and very sweet 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