I had a grade school villain. Her name was Karla, and she, like most bullies, had been held back a year in school and seemed as if they came out of the womb fully grown. She had a gang – her little brother and a few other cling-ons who were fed by her power, and she owned the swings. I loved to swing. Especially the old kind of swings that hang from chains. In our playground, we could tie one of the set of three to the side, and then play a game with the other two – the one in the middle would swing in a circle, gathering momentum and at the exact right moment, the other “swinger” would position themselves in the middle and the two […]
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“Don’t shoot! I believe you!”
Who are some of the villains that have stood out as scary to you? For me, it would have to be, hands down, Alan Rickman, all the way across the board. Remember him? Die Hard – Hans Gruber (the mastermind thief), Robin Hood – the Sheriff of Nottingham (Ewww!), Harry Potter series – Severus Snape. I know he’s played a few good guys but the guy embodies BAD so well, I just love to watch him. Why? Because he makes you BELIEVE he’s bad. We know he’s out of his mind and crazy, and we don’t know what to expect except….Badness. We’re going to be talking this week about what makes a great villain – 4 key components (and there are others, also, so we’ll be starting a thread […]
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Villains: “Rescue me from evil men; protect me from men of violence, who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day. They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s the poison of vipers is on their lips. … I love David. (This is from Psalm 140). He calls it like he sees it – “stir up war” and “poison of vipers” “Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plan to trip my feet. Proud men have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path.” What are Villains? I believe a villain is anyone or anything […]
Read the RestBack from Florida and ICRS!
Hey! Did you miss me as much as I missed you? Seriously — I thought, I miss the Voices! I gotta blog! I’m back home in Northern MN a sweet breeze filled with the scent of loam and pine and freshly cut grass cooling my office (okay, so Florida is HOT! I love my northern AC!) I returned to a….CLEAN HOUSE! (my sweet hubby and the boys took a 1/2 day off to clean the bachelor pad! I don’t want to know the before). Next week, really, we’ll talk about VILLIANS! I hope in the meantime, you all have been hard at work on your WIPS! In the meantime, here are some fun shots from the last couple weeks. Have a great weekend.
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