I love BABY NAME BOOKS! I like to browse through them - collect them ! That's because I'm inspired by names to develop characters.
Get this: In college I wrote a long story in which I made up a name for a character. It was an unusual name but felt right to me. In fact, it was as if this character, who I came to know well, was telling me what their name was, the way you hear some babies, before birth, whisper their name to their mothers or commuicate it silently as newborns. So I went with this character name. But in critique sessions in my writing workshop the professor and a couple students told me that the name was too unusual, that they got stuck on it while reading. Not good!
I tried, I really did, to find another name for this character. I questioned my motivations for naming this character something unusual. But then again, she was hardly an ordinary person. I was grateful that I could find and replace, using the computer, when the time came to change the name, but simply I never did find another name for the character and the manuscript remains in storage at this time.
Then recently I was looking through a baby name book and there it was - for the first time I had ever seen it in print - this unusual name I had used for the character!
C Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved including International and Internet Rights
2/1/11
JOAN SLOAN Quotation
"Though a living cannot be made at art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living. It makes worry, it makes trouble, it makes a life that would be barren of everything - living. It brings life to life." - Joan Sloan
1/21/11
COMMENTARY ON ERSEL HICKEY YOU THREW A DART
Wes Bryan tells me that Johnny Rivers said, in more recent times, that 1950's early Rock and Roller and singer-songwriter, Ersel Hickey was "Really The First Punk rocker." This song proves it to me. I've been listening to it - and other early rock and roll tunes all day as we upgrade WES BRYAN - MY LIFE IN MUSIC. We're having a good time!
New Video Summer 2016
New Video Summer 2016
1/18/11
BOOK EXCERPT : SHOPTISM BY LEE EISENBERG
From SHOPTISM by Lee Eisenberg
regarding RUSSELL BELK
page 297
..."Belk makes a compelling case about the inter-dependence of having and being. In fact, he even proposes four stages of human development based on the connection between having and being;
1) as infants we seek to distinguish ourselves from our environment.
2) as children we seek to distinguish ourselves from others .
3) as adolescents and adults, we use our possessions to help "manage" our identities and
4) as old folks we rely on certain possessions to maintain a sense of continuity and prepare for the end. Nearing that end, we cherish not only letters and photographs but also things we purchased over the years, thoughtfully or impulsively: jewelry, china, mementos of various kinds, even, perhaps, an old dressing gown.
"Our accumulation of possessions," says Belk, thus "provides a sense of past and tells us who we are, where we have come from, and perhaps where we are going."
Something to think about the next time you lose a possession that had come to mean something important to you. A break-in, a house fire, your own carelessness, it doesn't matter how it occurred. The response is the same; a part of you has gone missing.
C author Lee Eisenberg published by Freepress
regarding RUSSELL BELK
page 297
..."Belk makes a compelling case about the inter-dependence of having and being. In fact, he even proposes four stages of human development based on the connection between having and being;
1) as infants we seek to distinguish ourselves from our environment.
2) as children we seek to distinguish ourselves from others .
3) as adolescents and adults, we use our possessions to help "manage" our identities and
4) as old folks we rely on certain possessions to maintain a sense of continuity and prepare for the end. Nearing that end, we cherish not only letters and photographs but also things we purchased over the years, thoughtfully or impulsively: jewelry, china, mementos of various kinds, even, perhaps, an old dressing gown.
"Our accumulation of possessions," says Belk, thus "provides a sense of past and tells us who we are, where we have come from, and perhaps where we are going."
Something to think about the next time you lose a possession that had come to mean something important to you. A break-in, a house fire, your own carelessness, it doesn't matter how it occurred. The response is the same; a part of you has gone missing.
C author Lee Eisenberg published by Freepress
1/14/11
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE JANUARY 2011 SECRETS OF THE COLOSSEUM
For three years now I've run the fact that maybe I should have studied anthropology on my profile. Yet this is the first I have linked to or quoted an article about archeology. Reading this Smithsonian article today was pure pleasure for I learned new things about the spectacles staged at the Roman Colosseum that I never knew. (Link to the full article above.)
Did you know that pastries and wine were thrown out to the spectators? That the archaeologists have realized that the strange architecture of the place provided for lifts for animals to be released into the coliseum from their cages so that the fighter didn't know how many animals or if an Elephant or Lion might appear? That the center of the coliseum was once flooded to float boats so people could watch mock sea battles? And that there is no proof that Christians were specifically killed for their faith?
Did you know that pastries and wine were thrown out to the spectators? That the archaeologists have realized that the strange architecture of the place provided for lifts for animals to be released into the coliseum from their cages so that the fighter didn't know how many animals or if an Elephant or Lion might appear? That the center of the coliseum was once flooded to float boats so people could watch mock sea battles? And that there is no proof that Christians were specifically killed for their faith?
1/11/11
A POX ON THE THIEF WHO STOLE MY MEMORY STICK
REALIZATION THIS MORNING!
This is the SECOND time someone has walked off with my "memory stick" rather than turn it into the LOST and FOUND at the library. In each case I moved away from a computer for just a few moments which means it was probably someone sitting to the left or right of me!
SHAME SHAME SHAME on YOU!
(and woe is me)
Don't most of us despise thieves?
There are thieves and then there are thieves.
This is the SECOND time someone has walked off with my "memory stick" rather than turn it into the LOST and FOUND at the library. In each case I moved away from a computer for just a few moments which means it was probably someone sitting to the left or right of me!
SHAME SHAME SHAME on YOU!
(and woe is me)
Don't most of us despise thieves?
There are thieves and then there are thieves.
12/28/10
CIVIL WAR MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE DECODED
STEVE SZKOTAK : "The code is called the "Vigenere cipher," a centuries-old encryption in which letters of the alphabet are shifted a set number of places so an "a" would become a "d" — essentially, creating words with different letter combinations."
A 147 year old message definitely arrived to late!
A 147 year old message definitely arrived to late!
12/27/10
TEENA MARIE I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
Just picking up news and learned that one of my fav's Teena Marie has passed into the next life today at 54 at her home in Pasadena...
12/19/10
MARK TWAIN Quote
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Mark Twain
12/14/10
BRANDING CHRISTINE TRZYNA MAGAZINES I READ IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE
For someone who once read everything in sight including cereal boxes, this is a very limited list...
EVERY WEEK
LA Weekly (A ritual)
EVERY MONTH
Vanity Fair
LA Yoga
National Geographic
Vogue
Rolling Stone
SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR
Esquire
Smithsonian
Mother Jones
Ebony
Newsweek
New Yorker
Hola
RARELY
Oprah
People
EVERY WEEK
LA Weekly (A ritual)
EVERY MONTH
Vanity Fair
LA Yoga
National Geographic
Vogue
Rolling Stone
SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR
Esquire
Smithsonian
Mother Jones
Ebony
Newsweek
New Yorker
Hola
RARELY
Oprah
People
12/10/10
BRANDING CHRISTINE TRZYNA : READING STOPTISM by LEE EISENBERG MADE ME THINK
Favorite Cheap Shampoo : V05 has it over Suave any day!
(Whatever happened to BRECK ?)
Favorite Expensive Shampoo : Pantene of course (got any samples?)
Toothpaste : Crest - flavored - Citrus, Cinnamon, anything but minty!
Favorite Cheap Soap: Tone or anything with Cocoa Butter
Favorite Expensive Soap: Oh the expensive soaps I was once gifted and could never find or afford again! (Paris) I prefer scented soaps to perfume.
Favorite Perfume: A personal mix I have made every few years in Malibu. Through time I have sometimes worn men's cologne as I prefer non-floral scents.
(Whatever happened to BRECK ?)
Favorite Expensive Shampoo : Pantene of course (got any samples?)
Toothpaste : Crest - flavored - Citrus, Cinnamon, anything but minty!
Favorite Cheap Soap: Tone or anything with Cocoa Butter
Favorite Expensive Soap: Oh the expensive soaps I was once gifted and could never find or afford again! (Paris) I prefer scented soaps to perfume.
Favorite Perfume: A personal mix I have made every few years in Malibu. Through time I have sometimes worn men's cologne as I prefer non-floral scents.
12/7/10
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTE and the ARMONICA
So the other day I was in a public library in another city when I noticed a table of Christmas CD's and one of them featured songs performed on the ARMONICA... Turns out that my favorite Benjamin Franklin invented this instrument... Marie Antoinette was one of those who learned to play it. There were once 5000 in existance and now? ! maybe two or three players in the whole world... Linking to the site that explains it all...
William Zeitler is dedicated to bringing this instrument back from the endangered musical instruments list... The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies was originally written for the ARMONICA!
William Zeitler is dedicated to bringing this instrument back from the endangered musical instruments list... The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies was originally written for the ARMONICA!
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