A peculiar thing occurred on Monday and derailed my regularly scheduled post. I received a peculiar gift—a Santa hat skewered by a salmon—for Christmas and stuck on the top shelf of the closet. It fell on my head yesterday morning while searching for my winter hat.
Who doesn’t wear a salmon skewered hat while making chili?
How could I say no? Today’s post is brought to you by my peculiar Christmas hat.
Meet Ransom Riggs, YA (young adult) author and creator of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Peculiar indeed.
Could you ask for a more fabulous name? Peculiar, I couldn’t either.
He and his wonderfully named, talented wife, and bestselling YA author, Taherah Mafi, live in Santa Monica, California, and finish each others sentences. There must be something wonderfully peculiar in the air in Santa Monica.
Mr. Riggs started his journey collecting old photographs, taking photographs, making home movies with his friends, and writing stories. Time marched, he honed his pen daily at Mentalfloss.com. Time well spent as it landed him the opportunity to write “The Sherlock Holmes Handbook.”
Fast forward to Tim Burton turning his peculiar book into a wonderfully peculiar movie, which he can tell you about it himself:
My peculiar recommendation for the day, let’s head out with the Bangles and “Walk like an Egyptian”.
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Photo Credit: Salmon Skewered Hat, Daniel Perkins
Photo Credit: Ransom Riggs, thesupermat
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Ten foot carrots and topiary animals! Mercy. One wonders why a parent would name a child a word like “ransom,” which carries negative connotations of theft and demands. I watched the TV show “Timeless” on NBC last night (with Charles Lindbergh), so ransom reminds me of the Lindbergh baby. Bless his heart. When I attended UT Austin, there was a Harry Huntt Ransom Center, which carries a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, which reminds me of the picture I saw last night of Steve Guttenberg from “Three Men And A Baby” that Tom Selleck was discussing with Jimmy Fallon, and Steve Guttenberg is 58 years old, which is exactly how old Susanna Hoffs is now, with her doe eyes, shown singing above.
Wow. Impressive segue. Ransom is a name to be remembered.
I don’t want to believe either Steve Guttenberg or Susanna Hoffs are 58 years old. Where did the time go?
Oh, thank you for posting The Bangles “Walk like an Egyptian” video! I forgot how groovy it is. Susanna Hoff’s eyes darting back and forth make it legendary.
Glad you enjoyed the Bangles video. There is just something about Susanna Hoff that sparkles in that performance.
Exactly! Her eyes, her look…her ability to sing and play the guitar at the same time without falling off the stage….it’s all sparkly!
The falling off the stage part is what gets me every time. That’s why I can appreciate others who don’t. 🙂
i love his name and mental floss is my favorite publication (now online) )
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Awww . . . an adorable Fannie pic as a belated Xmas gift to us all! What blurb could even pretend to rise to the moment.
Even without a blurb, you have a way with words. 🙂 Thank you.