Writers Block is the ..... the.... fuck....

We went and saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy the other night, and while it's a pretty dense movie, there is one scene that sticks in my mind.  They're at a little english boarding school, and there are these kids running around in little british school uniforms, like fucking harry potter, playing on some stone ruins. It's all rainy, and foggy, and damp and they're just running around playing and laughing and it is just stuck in my mind. I don't just want to write about it, I want to live there. I want be those little kids looking at those stone ruins like they're an adventure.  I remember looking at ordinary things like they were complicated intricacies of fun and I want to be like that again.

But I can't. I can't be six years old, and the whole world new and exciting, so I want to write about it, because thats the closest I can come.  However, this is as far as I've gotten:

So, I'll get back to you on that.

Hunger Games, schmunger games!

Have you seen the Hunger Games trailer? What?? You haven't? Where have you been??

Deliciously Absurd

Haven't updated in a while. Oops. Sorry bout that.  Well, here's a picture of me with curly hair! 

Susan, you hear yourself asking, how in the world did you wind up with such pretty curls? I shall tell you internet stranger. It's through a process called 'No Heat Curls'. It's deceivingly easy, but the results are superb.  Probably going to grow my hair back out, just to get some spectacular curls.

My Favorite Thing of The Day Ever

Well played, i09. Well played.  i09 has come out with it's own version of Monopoly aptly titled, "Throneopoly". If you haven't seen it go see it now! I think I would like order a billion copies.  You know what, I can stretch the pocketbook. Two billion!

Something in Me

Something in me just gets a lady chub for red-haired Scottish girls.

This is the first picture we have of Princess Merida, the upcoming star of Pixar's Scotland folktale name Brave. To be completely and unabashadly honest, I CANNOT WAIT!

Also, guess who else is in it? Did you guess the hottest Scottish man alive?

Oh baby. I don't know if I can handle this hotness. However, I believe the best part about this sexy piece of meat's appearance(well voice, really) on the big screen is that I have a guaranteed way to get the boyfriend down to the theater. Bwhahahahahaha!

But in all seriousness. An animated movie about a kick ass girl who kicks ass and takes names. Sign me up...twice. I have a small little shy hope that maybe, just maybe, she won't even have a love interest. But in all honesty, I know she will. So maybe I just hope he won't be too much of a douchebag. :D

Well, life is life is life. Peace.


Source: BleedingCool

Young and Foolish - flashwriting

 Young and Foolish

by Susan Marie Combs

           An infant cries in her fathers arms, while he whispers sweet words to her ease her pain. He speaks in awe of the world she has just been born into. He speaks of the limitless possibilities that have now been opened to her, and how he will always be there for her, and that she was destined for great things and because she is young and foolish, she believes him.

          

Enough to Grasp - Personal Essay ~1,400

approx: 1,400 words

Enough to Grasp

by

Susan Marie Combs

           I don’t know when I first learned about the concept of freedom. I don’t know if I saw it on a bumper sticker, and pestered an exhausted parent until a hurried explanation was thrown my way. Or if it was a word in a textbook, bolded in the margins with a definition that I wrote onto a flashcard and dutifully copied onto a test. The only thing I do know is that when I learned it, I never truly understood it.