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Some Semblance of Monstrous Monday

Posted on July 2, 2019 by mohawkvalleygirl

Yes it is a Monstrous Monday post. Has it been a Monstrous Monday, you may ask. I don’t have to answer these questions, I just have to make a blog post. So here it is.

This is not me, but you may forgiven for thinking so.

I actually have a few things I can make a blog post about. However, my brain has flown, I cannot blog (I will never get over thinking this is a silly verb).

I feel this quote is apropos.

I append this quote as a reason why I am posting nonsense. At least this is some semblance of writing.

Yes, brain is what I do not have.

As I often do, I include a picture of The Brain from the Planet Arous, as an added reminder that I in fact have no brain whatsoever at my disposal. You’ll have that. At least, I’ll have that.

My favorite! At least one of my favorites.

Full disclosure: I want to make this post so I can watch Dateline on OWN. After all, Monday is Dateline day. Regular readers know how much I love true crime.

Not the sexiest bedroom scene in cine.

I close, as I often do, with a picture of Nosferatu. Who doesn’t love a vampire on Monstrous Monday?

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Muddled Monsters?

Posted on June 18, 2019 by mohawkvalleygirl

Do I have a feature called Muddled Monday? I think I do. Anyways, that is the kind of Monday I have had today. However, as I sit here typing one letter at a time with the stylus on my Tablet, I feel strangely (or I guess not so strangely) inclined to start sharing pictures of monsters.

Not exactly a monster movie, but you can’t have everything.

Boris Karloff always seems monstrous, although I believe this picture is from Bedlam, a good but pretty much monster-free flick.

I had a couple of Mohawk Valley adventures today, breakfast at Mona’s Diner in Frankfort and a productive visit to Basloe Library in Herkimer. I finished two articles for Mohawk Valley Living magazine. I am planning further adventures and articles (preview of coming attractions).

Monsters of the human variety, I suppose.

We are watching a DVR’d Dateline: Secrets Uncovered, narrated by my favorite, Keith Morrison. As an aside, my sister Diane messaged me the other day that her husband was pretty sure he saw Morrison in the airport. How awesome is that?

Speaking of Diane, she started the South Beach diet today, which is another of my favorites. Imagine my surprise when Steven and I tuned into Dateline on OWN earlier and the episode was Mystery in South Beach. Or does that fall under the heading It Takes So Little To Please Some People?

Well, now I am over 200 words and I think this is looking OK for a Muddled Monday post. Maybe I could close with another monster picture, just for good measure.

This is the look I imagine my readers are giving me.

Helping Hands to Cute Vampires, It’s Monstrous Monday

Posted on February 19, 2019 by mohawkvalleygirl

I tried to write a blog post before work this morning. I got a few paragraphs done, but I can’t finish it at the keyboard. Maybe tomorrow. Full disclosure: I did not work any more on it during breaks and lunch, because the lure of crossword puzzles was too strong. So let’s have our usual Monstrous Monday before the next episode of Dateline starts (regular readers may recall that on Mondays I watch Dateline on OWN).

Maybe if I drank more tea, I could be a better blogger.

I love this picture, because we all get by with a little help from our friends. Even a monster sometimes needs a hand.

It looks perfectly harmless now…

I’ve been thinking about this movie a lot lately. It is Roger Corman’s Little Shop of Horrors (1960). I love that movie. I have no use for the musical, but to each his own, as the old lady said when she kissed the cow.

I’m not scared of my own shadow. This one, however, is a different story.

This, of course, is from my all time favorite, Nosferatu (1929). They knew how to use shadows in those old movies.

“Look, Mom! No cavities!”

Just to end on a note of cuteness, here is one of my own little vampires, in a decorative pot given to me by my good friend, Marsha. I have no problem with cute monsters. I like all kinds!

My Date(line) with Keith Morrison

Posted on November 13, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

I think he is fine, yes.

This is going to be a fast post so I can get back to watching Dateline with Keith Morrison. Every Monday I have at least one good moment when I remember it is Dateline day on OWN. For a few sad weeks I had rehearsal for a murder mystery on Mondays. Now I am free and feel I should be happier about it than in fact I am. Then again, life is never perfect. We must do the best we can with the ingredients at hand.

Apparently woman cannot live by Dateline alone.

Yesterday I made up my mind that starting today I would up my game: my writing game, my running game, and my house cleaning game. Those were the ones I mentioned, but I daresay I have a few more games that could use work. Do you suppose I upped anything today? Of course not! And I am clearly not upping my blogging game. I haven’t even put in any pictures of monsters. What’s that all about, me?

I could use a haircut myself.

I am completely losing track of this Dateline episode while I type this foolishness (as Truman Capote famously said, this isn’t writing, it’s typing). I can only hope my man Keith narrates the next episode. Oh well, I like that Josh Mankiewicz too.

In the meantime, sorry to publish yet another foolish post. I’ll try to up my game tomorrow. As always, I hope you’ll stay tuned.

PS. It’s Dennis Murphy. He’s OK, too.

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Pepping Up the Post on Muddled Monday

Posted on August 7, 2018 by mohawkvalleygirl

How many thought I was going to use the picture of sad Frankenstein’s Monster saying, “No like Monday!”? I say too soon, but yet I am doing a Muddled Monday post. I could not write while at work today; it was too hot and and I was too ate up from the weekend (Hey! It was a fun weekend, alright?). Right now I am sitting on my couch in front of a fan watching Dateline on OWN, unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) one we have seen several times. How I love Dateline on a Monday.

Just a little graphic to pep up the post.

Sorry to have three or four foolish posts in a row, but I’m afraid that is what happens when it is beastly hot and I am on overtime at work.

The look on my face when I realize it is Monday.

I throw in Frankenstein’s Monster, because it is also Monstrous Monday. You see how I cleverly avoided using the “No Like Monday!” picture referenced earlier but still kept in the Monster and my dislike of Monday. I feel quite horribly cliche disliking Monday. Everybody dislikes Monday. When have I ever been mainstream? How mortifying!

Oh, the horror, the horror.

I add this poster, because I am horrified by my own following of the crowd. In fact, it has not been that bad of a Monday. Unfortunately, I’m afraid it has been that bad of a blog post. As always, I hope my readers will forgive me and tune in tomorrow, even if I only manage a Tired Tuesday post.

Mohawk Valley Girl