Fans of the Heir deserve Voldemort

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

Oddsnends - 

• Haunted house to sell? Examples of past listings: Trulia
• Current haunted properties listed include one known as Caenen Castle, aka Renee Kelly's Harvest, listed for lease or sale 1/2018. On the 2016 Haunted Restaurant line up. KCStar
• Alien Ranch in Arizona is still looking for a challenger. Read the story. Vice
• Worried that your haunted house will be difficult to sell? Maybe not. According to USNews some people actually like the extra ambiance. Just saying, do your homework before you buy in on that one. Spend a night with a ghost/s to see what you can look forward to 24/7.
• Recommend the Sagebrush Inn, Taos, New Mexico. - Updated since my stay. From past experience, having a phantom arm around you in the middle of the night keeps the mystery alive for a return engagement. We had the usual electronic issues. Not so fun, the dog totally freaked out while alone in the room during our breakfast break.
  
• On the reading list:
  1/The Afterlife Revolution, Anne and Whitley Strieber. UnknownCountry
  2/Out on Foot: Rocky Elmore's odd and unusual encounters as a U.S. Border Patrol Agent.
  3/Owls and UFOs. Mike Clelland has a follow-up to The Messengers. Stories from The Messengers (coming soon). Mike's Blog

Voldemort. Too good not to share -- Fans of the Heir crowd pleaser. Brilliant fan-made film fleshes out the back story on Tom Riddle and the horcruxes. Studio execs nixed and then relented. Agreements were made and then all parties involved signed off on this, The Verge.

Given the response - CNET for example (outnumbering the critics), it makes one wish the interest level were enough to inspire a full fledged pre-Voldemort film.



Another fan-made film (2013) highlights the battle between Dumbledor and Grindelwald. Seen on the Broad Strokes YouTube channel, the creators feature Harry Potter fan-made, fan-based content. The current vid promotes the next project: The Great Wizarding War and suggests rebranding and moving in a new direction. Follow on Twitter.


“Everything you can imagine is real.” - Pablo Picasso

• Science wow of the week: Acoustic tractor beams = Levitating humans. PhysOrg

I am imagining now. - wendy

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Sandra Martin, Snapshots: Memories and Recipes

“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?” ― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard 


Wendy's Coffeehouse Podcast Archives  Sandra Martin Interview 


Unusual, Offbeat, Odd and Otherwise - 

• Newly discovered essay - Winston Churchill believed in Extraterrestrials AOL
• 20 year Anniversary of the Phoenix Lights event. Witnesses ponder memory loss. Express
• Woman says a ghost scares off her boyfriends, among other things. Daily Mail
• Joey the Squirrel is the best guard dog - NYPost
• Woolly Mammoth slated for comeback. Telegraph
• Coolest Science post of the week. A startled Honeybee says "Whoop"... audio at IFLScience
• Google Street view wows - new sights include Africa

Contactees sometimes have a hard time conveying their encounters when the evidence is lacking. However, this experiencer has an edge. A successful artist, Robert Llimos provides an incredible perspective with his colorful and detailed recreations of those he interacted with. The ETs he sculpts and paints are beautiful and quite obviously not of this planet. He is sharing his work and their images in hopes of reducing fear in anticipation of eventual contact.


Can't overlook this Star Trek + Cats = Crowd pleaser - People  My favorite is Spock. Hardcover book available - Amazon

Wendy's Coffeehouse Podcast Archives - Link for Sandra Martin Interview 

In Snapshots: Memories and Recipes, Sandra Martin, former A-list Literary Agent, offers up a mix of unusual, unexplained and unexpected in her recollections of working with clients and hob-nobbing with celebs over book deals. Recipes embellish each re-telling. (Orange Chiffon Cake looks divine!)

You may recognize some of her award winning work here too: Paraview Productions
  
Intuition, PSI, Remote Viewing, Conspiracy, Life after Death, Mediumship and Consciousness started finding a home under the "New Age" umbrella as the category was beginning to emerge.

Sandra Martin arrived on the scene and that category exploded.

There are plenty of star names to draw from to make the point but the book is also about Sandra's journey; how the reluctant "Literary Agent" stepped up to the plate as a favor for a friend and knocked "New Age" out of the "woo-woo" park and smack into mainstream.


Names you might recognize: Jim Marrs and John Cleese. Sandra gets a thank you in Remote Viewers by Jim Schnable and David Morehouse credits Sandra in the open of his book, Lethal Weapons: War Without Death.

(In the interview, we talk about  a dinner party with Ingo Swann that didn't go quite the way it was planned.)

Other names in passing: Richard Bach (Newsletter is active this link is the Blog),  Glenn Close now getting accolades on Broadway. Link is to a fabulous review on The Daily Beast. Danny Glover (actor, author, activist: his twitter link) and one Leprechaun who will most likely prefer to remain anonymous. Read the book: Snapshots.

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One more thing: Jonathan Livingston Seagull Part 4 Why not now?

"When the book was written, it had four parts, not three. I wondered, then, why I had written the last part. It was simply not required in the world of that time, there was no force, no pressure then that bound individuals into controlled groups." ...   

In the works, a Jonathan Livingston Seagull interactive book...   

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