Another GISH Hunt week just gone – I think this is my fifth year?
It felt a bit low key this year, although I enjoyed it. Started off the week with a flu type thing, so I’ve only done six items…
Item 29 –
Make a book jacket. No, we mean a REAL book jacket.
This was hurried, not quite I wanted. I was feeling a bit rough and just wanted to start on something…I meant to update it with something better later in the week.
Item 52 –
Everyone needs a driver’s license to drive, and obviously there are lots of different kinds of licenses, but there is one that people often seem shy to share. Take a photo of a published poet showing us their Poetic License.
I am published – many years ago, in an anthology put out by a vanity publisher.
Item 161 –
TV shows get crossover episodes all the time, but we just don’t see enough Poetry Crossovers! Choose two of your favorite short, well-known poems from wildly different genres of poets and write the words on separate slips of paper. Then, rearrange the words to form a brand-new poem that creates the genre mash-up the poetry world has been yearning for. You must use all the primary words in your new creation, but you can add or remove conjunctions and articles as needed to make it flow.
Item 25 –
Son-flower.
One of favourites, and the quickest to do.
Note the eyeroll (my boys are familiar with GISH week now!)
Item 16 –
I (Misha) often make other people get tattoos, but this year I’m flipping the script and making you help me get one: Design a pointillism-style tattoo for my shoulder that incorporates a baby cheetah, a sockeye salmon and the words “wild and precious life” or something similar. The baby cheetah represents my son; the sockeye salmon, my daughter… and the phrase has deep meaning to me. I intend to use a mashup of the designs I like best, so give it all you’ve got. (Then, if you are so inclined, get a pointillist tattoo of three things that have deep significance to you — but you don’t have to do this part to get your Points.)
Another of my favourites! 😀
Item 121 –
Art is subjective, so there’s really no such thing as “bad” art in our opinion. Prove us wrong: create a piece of art so truly awful, it deserves to be in the Museum of Bad Art. The subject of your creation: a terrible, haunting, “big eyes” portrait of a character from Supernatural or another well-known pop-culture universe, in the style of Margaret Keane. But make it so bad, it’s kind of good.
Definitely not one of my favourites, but at least I got it done… it’s meant to be a character called Bobby Singer.
Well, that’s it for another year…just waiting for the sign up for next hunt.
Maybe it’s time now for an early night?
1000 Fields of Roses 
