Hello Fish's Adventure

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I'm a little hedgy on the details. Apparently Hello Fish found treasure. He told his two best friends about it, and they went to see. Then everyone went to see it.

Finally, Hello Fish and his baby brother both turned Gold. That's it. They both just turned GOLD.

That climax leave me pondering various existential roads...and abstractions...and I wonder what my 6 year old knows that I don't.

He wrote and illustrated this book last school year. Drew the cover and all that stuff. He won a first place at the Phillips County Fair for best original poem or short story amongst all the First graders in the County. I was impressed, and very proud because Trav was only in Kindergarten. The awards are given in the summer. Maybe he'll become the writer I'm not- and I'm proud whatever he does.

Pictures to follow.
I hauled a heavy log up to the house, ran in at dark and tried to take some photos. They aren't great, and the script is too faint to come out so I just dropped that and got three or four picts of the illustrations.

I'm happy about it. A couple of my friends on the forum wrote to me privately recently that I'm not smiling in my logging photos. Well, this makes me smile.

There's a lot of Blues at the munk compound right now, but this isn't one of the songs.

He starts First grade tomorow.
Lady was taking a walk by the school last week and saw a tail, just a tail above a line of chokecherry bush. The tail and the shape beneath it took off like lightening. She thinks it was a Cougar's tail. She's lived round here all her life so I dont' doubt it. She goes armed on her walks now. I told the school teacher we should all chip in and buy her a hogleg, strap that on her during school hours. Get a special dispensation from the District. Heavily Armed School Marm. I like it. She faces her students; "Do you feel lucky, Punk?"

She laughed her head off when I told her but there's no chance of arming her. Darnit.


munk
 
I don't know any hello kitty, Josh.

Pain is pain. Trust Steel.
and the dreams we make.
Won't let any house cat near the Gold.


munk
 
Anyone named Hello Kitty shows up near the munk compound is either shot, or Cougar food. Cougars love Hello Kitty, because housecats are raised on corn.
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munk
 
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If I saw Hello Kitty on a acid blotter, I might not take umbrage; but you cute things, all the things that look better than they are: you are worse than Dolls.

May I recomend Chucky as a suitable companion for Hello Kitty? In fact, Chuckie ravashing Hello Kitty.


munk
 
I personally think the world is ready for Hello Shoggoth.

Or maybe not.

Kittens and fish are fine, too.
 
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the deep ones are nigh!

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nyarlethotep approaches

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and as soon as cthulhu gets his degree from miscatonic
university, the whole world is food.

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-p.s. cthulhu is going for a degree in law with minors in accounting -
yes, the worst thing to happen to the world is getting even more so.
and to really finish us off, he's been pre-hired by the IRS as an
Infernal Revenue Agent!
 
Dave Rishar said:
I personally think the world is ready for Hello Shoggoth.

Or maybe not.

Kittens and fish are fine, too.

How about we all tessar(act) to the "Shining Icosahedron?" See the rugose frustroms and cones? I think that HPL was tied into something. Not sure what. Not sure I want to know.
 
munk said:
Anyone named Hello Kitty shows up near the munk compound is either shot, or Cougar food. ...
How I wish. My daughter's friend has Hello Kitty splashed on everything imaginable ...

In a suppressed 8th Century illustration of the Book of Revelation, you can just see Hello Kitty padding along beside the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The lesser Beast.

(p.s. ... send my congrats to Trav. That's wonderful stuff. With school back in, doubtless the Munk compound will be feeling a bit quiet and empty)
 
That's great, Munk:)

I think all kids have the potential to be great writers. However, like anything abstract or spiritual (and what is writing if not leaving the body to allow the mind to paint a picture out of nothing), the "real world" is stamped into their brains before they are even able to stretch their mind to as far as their "what if's" will go. You're doing a fine job keeping your kids imagination flowing. I can tell from your stories about your walks and your talks with your boys. Writing and imagination are part of what I call the "good crazies". In order to write, you have to imagine. In order to imagine, you have to see things in your head, hear voices, taste things that aren't there. As a student of psychology, I know there are a multitude of disorders that these fit in the the DSM:D

Keep crazying your kids up. Thar be stories in them thar heads! My mom always wanted me to be a writer. However, I have no stories to tell anymore. I go to work, I check people's pool water, I come home to my wonderfully quirky wife, I go to bed, I do it the next day. Gone are the days of dragons in the dog water bowl, of things that peek around the corner at me, of a wooded ride on an imaginary fire-breathing colt to save some beautiful trapped maiden from the deep and the dark talking trees of our 200 acre briar forest. Maybe. Maybe one day when we have kids they'll bring some dragons with them and we can tell stories and see things and just let the good crazies wash over us.

Hello Fish:)

Jake
 
It is a challenge to keep a child's imagination alive and well-nourished. There seem to be many forces at work which tend to push the creative spirit into the background or bend it to serve someone else's purposes. I have two who love to draw characters of all shapes and sizes - from warriors to wizards. My oldest would rather draw for an hour than complete a ten-minute writing assignment for homework. I guess aiming for some kind of balance is the key.

(No Hello Kitty around our house. She would have been taken out years ago by Power Rangers, Marvel superheros, GI Joes, etc. if she had dared to seek entry into our abode.)

Eric
 
They learned the secret from Gargamel, and finally gathered enough Smurfs.
 
munk said:
Yes.

I want to find something and turn gold.

munk

Thomas Linton said:
Maybe they turned gold 'cause they are the real treasure.

Thomas Linton

Munk, you already have your gold.

(I told a good friend recently that I often wonder if I will ever discover and fulfill my purpose here on this planet, if I have one at all. I said I usually think of such a "purpose" in terms of work and have struggled to find it there. He said maybe my purpose is to raise my children well. I have thought about that a lot.)

Eric
 
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