So I dreamed about blogging all night long, waking more than once with title or subject in mind, the post composing itself in my half-consciousness. Darn the Blog Bug! That's my cue that something is bubbling up which needs release. If I don't heed the call now, it will begin to whine then it will start growling. Howling will follow shortly thereafter and finally... well, you've seen Alien, right? The parallel is apropos because a part of me expires each time I ignore or otherwise disregard the creative impulse. Now, woe is me that I didn't at least jot down some of the thoughts I had in those early, dark morning hours!
On the Noodle Dude front, one of his (and our) favorite shows is a Discovery Kids Channel program called PEEP and the Big Wide World. The characters learn basic priciples of science in a very practical way. The music is great, the show is slow-paced and straightforward, no crazy barrage to the system. You can even watch daily episodes online, commercial-free.
I think Quack is our favorite (he's the one with the hat):
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I get my best blog idea in the middle of the night too. Must start keeping a notebook by the bed!
I nearly always keep one beside my bed... one beside my chair... one in my purse... one in my desk... one in my back pocket...
Billy used to keep a cassette recorder beside the bed, for song ideas in the middle of the night. He'd be having a dream, and as the odd plot played out, his semi-conscious would suddenly realize that the elevator music (or music on the radio, or the song of a passerby, or whatever) was actually an original composition. So he'd wake up enough to sing or hum it into the recorder, and then go back to sleep. Of course not all of them were worth keeping, but some of them grew into great songs!
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