Heads Up Everyone!

In honour of our stellar first effort that was Forest Week, September 2011 is hereby prescribed as our next Theme Week*

And what is the theme I hear you ask?

SPIDERS.

Thanks to the spider the size of a dinner plate that greeted me on the wall the other night, let the theme of “SPIDER” inspire you to write/draw/compose something for the board to be posted by the last week in September.

Hopefully, this will generate some posts and stories and get the board moving a bit more than its current sluggish state.

I’ll even promise to post Urban Druid #2!

Only one rule as always: in someway your story/art/etc must tie into the theme.

So – let the theme take you where it may – and get to it.

Al B.

*Yes, yes I know it’s a month, not a week.

I'll have to give it some thought... Nothing immediately comes to mind, but then it's not like that forest week story jumped out at me either. Especially considering that I didn't finish writing it until 6-7 months later. Still, I completed it, so it goes down in the "win" column in my book.

I'll try to be more punctual this year.

According to a work colleague anyway.

And yes, give it some thought and then give it a whirl! What I loved about Forest Week was just how diverse everything presented was.

I'm sure Spider Week will be just as surprising in its revelation.

That's the plan, anyway.

I'm sure inspiration for Spider-Week will strike. Much like Babs in the middle of the night.

When I was living in Florida I had my run-in with the biggest spider I had seen. Not dinner-plate sized, but bigger than the palm of my hand. What made it most traumatic was that it happened when I was still half-asleep. I pulled the shower curtain closed and the thing dropped out at me. It's not the kind of thing you want to confront naked.

I also got stung by a scorpion while sitting on my couch down in Florida, and found a huge black snake of some sort curled up under the dryer.

I don't live there any more.

I once woke up to the sound of crunching - and there on the ceiling above my head was a spider eating a moth. Lovely of her to share.

Al B.

Last time for Forest week, I sent out Semi-Transparent Lad & C-Class out into the Oregon wildness to see if they could confirm reports of Vampires hanging out there. Never did finish that story.

I'll have think about who I'll use in this years theme (been thinking about doing something with Catherine lately so she might be the protagonist is my entry) & how Spiders would work in (1st 2 thoughts about Spiders: Giant Spiders & Spider-Man or at least Humans with Spider based powers).