Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Adventure Journals!

Day Seven for Imaginary Life Eight, Playwright:

Started workshopping the notebooks from the summer that I put together with a couple of my collaborators on this project we'll be putting up at the end of the fall before Em and I leave. They wrote journals as their characters based off of prompts I gave them once a week or so. Poetry excerpts and music and stuff like that. The result is astounding. I'm incredibly impressed with them and ready to take on the challenge of staging it. I get the notebooks this week and hope to be able to glean from their rich offerings.

Haiku of the Day:
Girls on adventure
they climb trees and uncover
life's great mystery

Today's Drawing

Untoward

1 : difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly, intractable
2 a : marked by trouble or unhappiness : unlucky
b : not favorable or propitious : adverse
3 : improper, indecorous

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Wet Tarantella

Day Seven for Imaginary Life Two, Board Game Designer:

Digging in deep to the D&D realm. I've even drawn a map! I won't share it here yet because I don't want to spoil it for my potential adventurers. This is so reminiscent of my childhood when we would have these fantastically visions for game worlds. Hell we made our own version of D&D without even knowing it while trying to recreate the same mechanics of video games (which were based off of D&D to begin with).

I may share some of the text I'll be writing for it here or maybe a recording? Podcasting this stuff has become pretty popular. Who knows?

Haiku of the Day:
On six inch wedges
she danced an accidental
wet tarantella

Today's Drawing

Will-o'-the-wisp

1 : a light that appears at night over marshy ground
2 : a misleading or elusive goal or hope

Monday, September 5, 2016

Laberless Day

Day Five for Imaginary Life Five, Carpenter:

Haven't touched this one in a while, probably because I know I will be moving soon. Odds are there will be a frenzy in the fall/winter as we set up the new place. I especially excited to start crafting a gaming board, as I've mentioned in the past. I'm intently considering making our dining room table. 

So many plans!!


Haiku of the Day:
Vegging out, couchwise
buds-in; pants-off; no problems
Keeping it real, yo

Today's Drawing

Sagacious

1 : of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning
2 : caused by or indicating acute discernment

Sunday, September 4, 2016

Snake Hunting

Day Five for Imaginary Life Three, History Teacher:

Another pleasent day of vacation in Maine. My aunt and uncle have been living there for a long time now and are basically historians of the areas around Portland. I'm inspired to be more connected to the history of my own city and the cities I've lived in.

Also realizing how some much of history is about studying a community at a specific point in time and that time can be the present.

Haiku of the Day:
Going snake hunting
in the dangerous jungles
outside Westbrook, Maine

Today's Drawing

Asperse

1 : sprinkle; especially : to sprinkle with holy water
2 : to attack with evil reports or false or injurious charges



Saturday, September 3, 2016

Spinning Out

Doing a check in today because...who cares they're my arbitrary rules.

I've been negligent. The dates on the blog are no longer true. I've mentioned this before but it's getting out of hand now. I've been planning on dedicating a day to maintenance and catch up so I can make sure I've got pictures and haikus for each day but it's gotten out of control. I'm going to seeing how much I can do and keep up in this month but it may be pretty sparse. I'm often far overestimating my creative capacities. I'm a dreamer with execution problems. This I know. THIS is the reason for the project. Figuring that out.

Haiku of the Day:
Atop the dome car
New England passes us by
You can taste the fall

Today's Drawing

Quodlibet

1 : a philosophical or theological point proposed for disputation; also : a disputation on such a point
2 : a whimsical combination of familiar melodies or texts

Friday, September 2, 2016

Temptation Evaded

Day Five for Imaginary Life Six, Voice Actor:

Got into a few more voices today but I've not had the time to sit down and record. I want to have time for these things but with all the obligations of life and this new move barreling down on us I'm strapped for minutes. Most of them are spent on emotional recovery.

I've had an idea to start a D&D campaign with my brothers for around ChristmasTime. This means more time around Board Game Designer, Voice Actor, Playwright and Poet even.

Haiku of the Day:
First booze temptation
But the hand doesn't waver
A seltzer for me

Today's Drawing

Adjuvant

1 : serving to aid or contribute : auxiliary
2 : assisting in the prevention, amelioration, or cure of disease

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Allergies

Day Six for Imaginary Life Eight, Playwright:

Got the gang back together to work on one last show. A preview of a year and a half's worth of work. It feels good to dream and plan. We're hesitant but excited. I want to write but the sick mind keeps rejecting it.

I'm allergic to seafood in the harbor.

Haiku of the Day:
Light calculations
numbers nestled in their cells
They're trying so hard

Today's Drawing

Oenophile

: a lover or connoisseur of wine