Blogophilia 1.17: The Red, The White and The Blue

From the House of Marvin Martian: Greetings, Dear Earthlings and Fellow Blogophilians!! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO BLOGOPHILIA and HAPPY JULY 4th!!! Welcome to Week 1 in Year 17, as we start a New Year and New Season in Blogophilia!

Can you believe we’ve been keeping up with our blogging/writing for so very long, despite the challenges of Myspace, Facebook and WordPress we have endured? There’s something to be said for having loyal followers and amazing writers like you. We at the Marvin House SEE you, we APPRECIATE you and we LOVE you! Thank you for the amazing contributions you have made and the camaraderie you have created in this blogging community!! YOU ROCK!!

Blogophilia group on Facebook HERE – and blog topic parameters on WordPress HERE

Hard Bonus: Incorporate a patriotic quote, lyric or phrase

Easy Bonus: Include fireworks

Melon dramatic

It’s that time of year, when people dress up in The Red, The White and The Blue, and love to light off fireworks for a week ahead & several days after the 4th of July, with parades, music, and so much more!

In this time of turmoil, we must not forget that the power is in We, the People, even if it seems as if our elected officials are NOT listening. I think we are in dire need of grassroots organizing. Not just for each other, but for our children & beyond. “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”.  John F. Kennedy You know what to do…

Blogophilia 52.16: All the King’s Horses

Marvin Martian says Greetings, Dear Earthlings and Fellow Blogophilians!! Welcome to Week 52 in Year 16! It’s the final week of year 16!!! Can you believe next week we will start our SEVENTEENTH YEAR together! We at the Marvin House just want to thank you for the AMAZING contributions over the years. YOU ROCK!

Thank you all for your participation in our weekly blogs – we at the Marvin House appreciate you! With the highest number of blogs last week so far in 2025, we will continue the weekly challenges into Year 17. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of work that goes into curating, creating, and maintaining each weekly blog, commenting, linking, etc. – so please keep those writes coming! Our continuation in the future depends on you, AND YOU ROCK!

Blogophilia group on Facebook HERE. Blog topic parameters on WordPress HERE, and how blogophilia works HERE. Come join us & try your hand at it. It’s a community where we all support each other. It’ll be fun!

Hard Bonus: Incorporate a lyric or song title from Depeche Mode

Easy Bonus: Include three “secondary” colors or variations of their hues

Resting for Adventure

The stories we hear about royalty seem romanticized. I think we should release All the King’s Horses to rescues, rehab, or whatever you call them… So, just like the rest of us, we can Enjoy The Silence under the orange & yellow skies, walking on the green grass – just listening to the frogs croaking, crickets chirping, and the wind blowing through our hair.

Blogophilia 51.16: Welcome to the Jungle

Marvin Martian says: Greetings, Dear Earthlings and Fellow Blogophilians!! Welcome to Week 51 in Year 16! Only two weeks remain in our Year 16 in Blogophilia. We just want to thank you for the AMAZING amount of participation last week – keep up the good work!

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO ALL THE BLOGOPHILIAN DADS OUT THERE – ENJOY A DAY OF RELAXATION AND YOUR FAVORITE THINGS!

Hard Bonus: Incorporate a song title by Guns n Roses

Easy Bonus: Include a banana

King Chewbacca Kong

It’s summertime, and it’s time to Welcome to the Jungle! I’d like to wish all the dads a Happy Father’s Day, especially those who have supported my son through his life journey. It’s time to go to Paradise City and have some banana cream pie. Sometimes I miss my college days, tho… I’d put that song into the jukebox & we’d bang on the tables…

Blogophilia 50.16: How Does Rain Get Made?

A note from Marvin Martian: Greetings, Dear Earthlings and Fellow Blogophilians!! Welcome to Week 50 in Year 16! Only three weeks remain in our Year 16 in Blogophilia, which has us pondering about life in the blogosphere.

IMPORTANT NOTE: WE NEED YOU!!!!
We can’t express how much we have appreciated your participation and friendship over the years, dear Blogophilians! Please note that because the blogging participation has been way down in the past months, we at the Marvin House may be forced to make a decision about our viability for the future… So please join back in with your amazing writes, as we would like to keep blogging!

Blogophilia group on Facebook HERE, and blog topic parameters & how it works on WordPress HERE

Hard Bonus: Mention an actor or actress from the 1940’s

Easy Bonus: Incorporate a synonym for “sad” or “sadness”

Dreaming for succulent food…

It seems as if there is a lot about water falling from the sky. How Does Rain Get Made? I like this ancient Chinese weatherology: In China, there was once a widespread belief that dragons controlled the weather, and rain especially. One dragon in particular, named Yinglong, or Responding Dragon, was associated with water and rain. Usually, Yinglong gave just enough rain to nourish the earth, but he could send floods or withhold rain on a whim if people did not honor him properly. His name, Responding Dragon, refers to the notion that, if the people cried out to him for more or less rain, he would have mercy and respond to their pleas. Yinglong was also said to have carved out riverbeds with his tail as a gift to humankind, to hold rainwater in between showers.

I wonder if Rita Hayworth would dance for rain, in the rain, or if she’d be despondent that the clouds opened up & rained… But I’d like to invite her, if it were possible, to come to the Kenosha Pops Concert Band – 1st show of the 103rd season on June 14, 2025 @ 2pm at the Civil War Museum. Here is the schedule for the rest of the year.

Blogophilia 49.16 – Thunderstruck

Marvin Martian says Greetings, Dear Earthlings and Fellow Blogophilians!! Welcome to Week 49 in Year 16! Only four weeks remain in our Year 16 in Blogophilia, which has us pondering about life in the blogosphere.

Blogophilia group in Facebook HERE and blog topic parameters & how it works on WordPress HERE

Hard Bonus: Quote or paraphrase Carl Jung

Easy Bonus: Include a bridge

Bridge into the clouds

I don’t know if I’ve ever been so Thunderstruck to the point of no words. Only that often, they don’t deserve a response because it’s so beneath any logic. Those who are purposefully that way are just trying to elicit reactions… Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Carl Jung

I wonder if anyone with the surname Bridge has named their daughter Brooke Lynn, so that her name is Brooklynn Bridge? Or if she married that way…