JamesSavik

They snuck up on me! Hyacinths are one of my favorite flowers. According to myth, they are the tears of Apollo over the loss of his beloved Spartan Prince Hyacinthus. If you're unfamiliar with the myth, check it out here, Apollo and Hyacinthus. I would have probably gotten along with the Greeks.

Ecstacy, or MDMA, (a.k.a. E, or Molly) is a popular party drug that was created and used to facilitate psychotherapy. First synthesized by a German chemist in 1912, it became a popular street drug in the seventies. The US FDA made it a Schedule 1 narcotic. As of 2021, there were limited studies of its use to treat the anxiety and depression accompany PTSD. Users of MDMA get a happy, euphoric, friendly, and silly high. It is a complex drug to synthesize, and small errors in the process can create dangerous isomers of the basic compound. In the eighties, a bad batch was released nationwide, which caused the symptoms of early onset Parkinson's disease. Others have the opposite effect, and make the user angry and belligerent.

True terror is one of those things that's difficult to credit unless you have felt it for yourself. If you have ridden out a hurricane or been jumped by thugs, you just might get it.

OK, this blew my mind. I described the wetlands around south Mississippi and Louisiana and got this: This is what the salt marshes look like in the spring. A view like this is rare and would usually take a long ride in an air boat to get to see it.

I once worked security for a punk band called innuendo. Their name struck me as particularly ironic because those guys couldn't even spell subtle.

AI generated memory of a pasture party ~ 1977.

Delicious snacks for big cats and a challenge to catch.

That narrator is an actual geologist who has his own channel where he covers volcanoes and other geological phenomena. Yes, he’s dry, but he knows his stuff. I’m a long time subscriber.

Flashback to one of my devastating breakups when I went into my basement apartment with a bottle of tequila and listened to this on autorepeat.

There's a reason people love heavy metal. To some, it sounds like a combination of a cat fight and an earsplitting thunderstorm. It sounds great when you are high, you don't hear your own doubts and fears for a while, or other people's shit. So... Rock on, bro! You aren't disturbed, alienated and emotionally retarded with anger and impulse control issues. You're way cooler than those other motherf*ckers. 🤘

I've always been a science geek and actually get excited about new discoveries. When someone comes up with the biggest discovery in this -ology in fifty years, I sit up and take notice. Today, an ancient mystery has been solved, and it's the coolest thing I've seen in years.

Who R U?

I have an old family recipe for wild rice and shrimp casserole I make for Thanksgiving and put in two square ramekins. One, I cook for Thanksgiving, the other I freeze for Christmas a month later. I made it for a dinner-on-the- grounds, and it went faster than Anne-Marie's pecan pralines.

Special note: Rebel is a Southern nickname for troublesome or rowdy teens.

@Flip-Flop I'm tickled to get a like anywhere you're willing to put it. 🙂 Too many people miss that darned title page.

The Counsel Foster King sat on an uncomfortable, hard-bottomed bench outside Vice-Principal Chuckles’ office. The man tried to be an affable clown, but most of his corny jokes fell flat on the middle schoolers who had to endure them. The man seemed to have a tone-deafness about him that made him immune to the idea that his students were laughing at him, not his jokes. His best friend, Rebel Stuart, sat in the chair beside him, but they were forbidden to talk until Chuckles was d

Mr. Sunshine No one in town knew who bought the old house on Jefferson Street. Their only tip-off that it had been sold was the abrupt disappearance of the five-year-old for-sale sign. The two-story colonial was on a beautiful lot with gardens in the front and back shaded by ancient oaks garlanded in Spanish moss. It had seen better days and needed attention because several hurricanes had done it no favors. No one in the neighborhood was surprised when work crews arrived and beg

I, too, have been experimenting. I'm a very visual thinker, and I decided to try to use my descriptions to see what the AI thought about what I described. Setting and description is one of the essential crafts in the art. I call it an art because there's a fine line between too little and far too much. I put the text of the description of a house, a key part of the setting for a story I'm grinding on that occurred to me this morning. Here's what came out. The protagonist has a main-coon cat named Max. Here he is. This gives an author the rare opportunity to see the world described in his prose as the reader might see it. OH! This gives me plans. With this tool in my belt, wait until you see what I conjure next! < Maniacal Laughter PS- I noticed the AI put azalea bushes in the oak trees. Do AIs get high?

The madcap had a nightcap that turned into a whole bottle, That's when the hi jinks began, and they were on full throttle.

The difference in this case is elevation. Lupine, Bluebonnet and Larkspur all belong to the family Fabaceae and are related to peas and beans. They can't handle hot, humid low-land conditions.

Some of the mignonettes available in the United States are really quite stunning. Texas Bluebonnets, Lupines and Larkspur are the most well known and when well established, can cover hills and mountainsides. Unfortunately, none of them grow well in the deep south. Texas Bluebonnets will start blooming soon in March, and many people drive hundreds of miles to see them.

I'm not sure why, but when I tried to embed this video, it came with a snip of code that never did work right. I replaced the YouTube video with different version of the same song, and it worked just fine. So, I fixed it, but the how's and why's are vague.