The Guild Card & A Certain Dog Puppet

The Guild !
At the Indiana puppet fest - I got my lamented guild membership card !
Oh, the things that make me happy !😊
(note: my first ever emoji in a blog post!)

Other things about the fest.
Laughing until I cried over and over with the crooked mouthed dog puppet.
I thought he had a Marlon Brando " I could have been a contender " - look about him.
I lip-synced to "Luck Be A Lady Tonight" from GUYS AND DOLLS sung by one of my roommates.  Having roommates well versed in musical theater helps when doing impromptu bits in the hotel room.
It was my roommates banter between themselves as they operated the puppet that killed me.
The set up was simple:
The dog asked if it could ask a question.
It waited patiently and politely until permission was granted.
And then it would ask the most horrible and funny questions !
The voice used was a kind of slow drawl. If forced to compare it to someone else I'd say the school counselor on South Park.  With maybe just a touch of Swing Blade in there.
I wish I had video of it to remember it by.
I am serious when I say the experience was like sitting in the room listening to Charlie McCarthy rip into Mae West.  Only not safe for old time radio.
And if Charlie was a stuffed animal dog that had been re-purposed as a pupped !               

Two in one day ! (TEST)

I am attempting to dk this from my tablet (I think that is what this is.  Is an e-reader &a tablet the same thing ( fun note  I am typing without seen g what I types)  I just wanted to see if this could be do e  & to mentioned. That there was. Oh! I just saw how this is going! I need to stop. The earlier post needs to be edited too.  I will try to correct this I. The morning. Arrrgh !

Time Warp & Ragnarok !

Well, well, well it has been a while !  Coincidently it was almost to the exact day that I went on-line and checked into this blog - what 6 years later !?!  Unfortunately I had no idea the email or password I used and could not make a post.  Since then I have found that info - obviously - and been to and just got back from the regional puppet festival in Indiana. That was this weekend !
It is Monday November 6th, 2017. I am still recovering. I am not the greatest traveler. Built for comfort and not for travel I guess. One of those people that are susceptible to motion sickness.  Anyway -
Time Warp !
Because it has been so long since I was last here.
Ragnarok !
Ragnarok (sp?)
 because...

1. Marvel's movie THOR: RAGNAROK came out this weekend. I saw it. I enjoyed it.
2. Around the indoor campfire - it was raining and our "campfire" consisted of us circled around a plastic bucket of pretzel sticks (which I brought with me from Ohio) sitting in chairs in the auditorium. [ Is this sentence as awkward to you as it seems to me? I've got a tad bit of a headache going. Travel lag?  Time change? ] - anyway a puppeteer from Chicago mentioned seeing Ragnarok & we fist bumped and discussed it. "Geeked Out" if you will.  Her favorite character was the giant wolf.  And I pulled out my remembered knowledge of Norse Mythology - from the report I did on the subject in 6th -Grade !!!  My main source a paperback copy of Bulfinch's Mythology - and we contrasted the myths vs. the movie.  Example being the giant wolf in the movie's parentage is never mentioned.  In mythology the wolf is Loki's son. Loki being a shape shifter and all. Understand this was not an in depth discussion. My knowledge came from the 6th grade & the Marvel comics I've read over the years.  I think we figured out the maybe 4 differences and between the 2 of us cobbled together one story about the wolf biting off the god of war's hand because the wolf was pissed because he was tricked into being bound.
3. I did not go crazy in the puppet buying this year.  I got 2 hand puppet heads. One raw but nice of Judy that really could be used as Mr. Punch - at fist look I thought it was Mr. Punch - and a plastic toy like puppet head of a gray haired and mostly bald old man.  then I bought a snake puppet as a gift. 2 florescent orange gloves made out of fleece as a gift.  A dog puppet with a crooked mouth made out of a stuffed animal as a gift and a stuffed animal puppet of a gray wolf with his tongue hanging out. $3.00 for the wolf ?  Now at the time I was kind of baffled why I bought the wolf.  Just impulse. I was thinking Big Bad with pigs & with Little Red. Then I realized the next day wolf !  Ragnarok !  And just now I realized I also bought a snake or serpent if you will which was another creature that was instrumental in bringing about the Norse End of The World known as Ragnarok ! (that is if I am spelling it correctly !) And another of Loki's offspring !

So the wolf's name is Ragnarok or Rocky for short.  For now at least !
(edited on 11/13/2017)