Saturday Stops - Bonfire

All Aboard the Meme Express – Saturday, October 31, 2009

Today is Halloween, which happens to fall on a Saturday this year. Welcome to the weekend!

It’s time for Saturday Stops at Meme Express. Each Saturday, we offer a few weekend words for that day’s prompt.

As neighborhood trick or treaters put on their costumes and prepare to go door to door, begging Halloween treats, we will be building a big bonfire. You see, we have so many trick or treaters on Halloween each year that it really makes no sense for us to await those doorbell rings.

So we plant ourselves in the yard and hand out Halloween candy to trick or treaters much faster. And we go through about 15 bags of candy each Halloween. This year, we’ll be passing out Kit Kats, M&Ms (plain and peanut), Milk Duds, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Three Musketeers and Whoppers. (Which is YOUR favorite?)

The Meme Express prompt for today is:

bonfire

Why not write your own blog post today – about a bonfire or your own Halloween traditions?

What are you doing this weekend?

Perhaps this concept will inspire you to create and post a drawing, a poem, a photograph, a short story, or a journal entry. Then return here to leave a comment with your link. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)

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Of course, if this prompt seems to stump you, feel free to peruse the archives of the Meme Express and publish a blog post on an earlier prompt.

Friday Freedom #51

All Aboard the Meme Express – Friday, October 30, 2009

Dorothy and the Scarecrow

From The Wizard of Oz

1900

Tomorrow may be Halloween, but today is Friday. And that’s not so scary at all!

It’s time for Friday Freedom at the Meme Express.

What is Friday Freedom? It’s a Writer’s Choice prompt. You can post what you like (on your own blog), and return here to leave a comment with your link. (See “Super-Simple Linking” for instructions on creating active links.)

In your post today, be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Feel free to grab our train graphic from the sidebar, and post an active link on your own blog. Why not add the Meme Express to your blogroll?

Also, if you participate regularly at the Meme Express, and you would like to join our blogroll, please let us know in your comment. We’d be happy to add you, if you play often.

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Thursday Thinking and Inking - Masks

All Aboard the Meme Express – Thursday, October 29, 2009

Halloween is upon us. Trick-or-treaters will soon don costumes and begin parading through our neighborhoods, seeking candy and other sweets.

Here’s a masquerading quotation for Thursday Thinking and Inking at Meme Express.

“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”

Victor Hugo

French novelist

(1802 – 1885)

Each Thursday, we will feature a quotation as inspiration for that day’s prompt.

The Meme Express for today is simple:

mask or masks

Perhaps this concept will inspire you to create and post a drawing, a poem, a photograph, a short story, or a journal entry. Then return here to leave a comment with your link. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)

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Midweek Musical Memories - Trolley

All Aboard the Meme Express – Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Midweek is here. It’s Wednesday, time for Midweek Musical Memories. Each Wednesday, the Meme Express features a hit song from the past, representing a variety of musical eras and genres. Please tune in often for musical memories and prompts.

On this date in 1944, Judy Garland topped the popular music charts in the U.S. with her hit single, “The Trolley Song.” The song appeared in the musical motion picture Meet Me in St. Louis (based on the Broadway show).

Here’s “The Trolley Song,” sung by Judy Garland, from Meet Me in St. Louis:

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The Meme Express for today offers two tracks:

trolley

end of the line

Pick one, or use ‘em both.

Perhaps this concept will inspire you to create a drawing, a poem, a short story, or a journal entry. Then return here to leave a comment with your link. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)

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