Archive for March 17th, 2005

The villain in a gray hat

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

I’m trying to exorcize that word from my vocabulary. Villain. It smacks of Snidely Whiplash, snickering and twisting his fiendish mustache. Evil and mean. And very one-dimensional.
I prefer antagonist. The character who comes into conflict with the protagonist(s). Papa Montague and Papa Capulet weren’t villains. They were antagonists. […]

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Did somebody say chocolate?

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

How creative are you? My dear friend Heather Rae is having a contest! Give her fictional football team a name, and you could win a goody bag!
Yeah, I’m, uh…still working on that antagonist post. We got waylayed by a preview of spring today. I think it may have reached 45! […]

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White walls, blue rug

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

There was way too much purple going on around here.
I like white. Lots and lots of white. Maybe it’s a military upbringing. I don’t know. Former conversations:
The husband: What colors should we use in the hallway?
Shannon: White walls, blue rug.
(He chose a very, very pale icy mint […]

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