Weeks two and three: cracking the shell

Weeks two and three of reading “Walking in This World” have been a very interesting endeavor. Cameron writes about difficult feelings bubbling up and getting our little soft boiled creative souls all oozy. She talks about the artist’s task being hard for some people to get into and I’ve definitely found that to be true. I had all kinds of excuses for why I don’t want to take myself on a little excursion.

This process has brought up a lot of anger, which Cameron addresses also and suggests we use it as a tool to be creative. I still need to dive headfirst into this as I was recently emotionally attacked by a “friend.” It’s a long story but it’s someone with whom I sublimated my creativity anyway and so, in the long run, it will really be a gift. It will be a gift because it triggered a part of me that carries pain from old wounds and then keeps me from being expressive and creative. So if I can help heal that part of me this time around then I’ll have a better chance of bringing about more creative hatchlings.

Right now my shell is a bit cracked but that’s okay because it means I can get at the oozy bits inside and help them.

Meringue!

This is an older meme thing. But since mine just happened to end up egg-related, it seems appropriate.


1. Go to wikipedia.org and hit Random Article. The title of the article is the name of your band.

2. Go to quotationspage.com and hit Random Quotation. The last four or five words of the last quote on the page is the title of your album.

3. Go to flickr.com and click on “Explore" -> "Last 7 Days Interesting.” The third picture, no matter what, is your album cover.

4 Use Photoshop or a free online photo editor like picnik.com to put it all together.

5. Post it with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in!

(photo by Mr. Flibble -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/flibble/)

Eggery

I’d like to open an egg restaurant. An eggery, if you will. At first I thought it should just be deviled eggs. Delicious, delectable, demonic treats. Satan’s ovules. I could easily nudge whoopie pies out of popularity and let eggs take their rightful spot on the cupcake-type trend timeline. And never let go! Precious yolk has its sights set on sweets and will take them down. The savory will reign again and bring its finger-licking vengeance upon the sugary! All hail the fruit of thy hen’s ovary: Lord Ova.

Before I get too carried away I should consider the rest of the eggery. There must also be an omelet station and a grilled cheese sandwich with an egg in it. Also I would offer a grilled cheese omelet. The ultimate stoner food.

There would also be items that are shaped like eggs but aren’t necessarily eggs. Not sure what those will be yet. Desserts? Cake in the shape of an egg with an oozing, yellow ganache inside? Yes. Yes indeed.

Now, I am a woman who loves puns but I believe that eggs are goofy enough that I would not be able to name my eggery something like “Local Yolkals” or “Eggcetera” or “Eggcellent Eats” or “Nicole Eggers’ Eggery”* 

*Not actually endorsed by Nicole Eggers. <----- this would be part of the sign. If I were punning. But I’m not, like I said. So there.

It would be funny if Nicole Eggers were vegan but I can’t seem to find any evidence as such. Dave Eggers, however, did co-edit Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals,” in which Foer suggests one should not eat the animals. Which you would know unless you’ve been hiding under a side of beef since September 2010. I don’t know if Eggers eats eggs.

Other punny/silly storefront names I won’t use:

She’s got Leggs

Beat It

Don’t Fire Until You See The Whites of Our Eggs

Rivers of Yolk

Big Whimsy (I only mention this because I’m pretty sure on last week’s “Celebrity Apprentice” Gary Busey said this is what he calls his penis and I just have to tell somebody).