scribbling on the ceiling

Waxing philosphical

2011-11-17T10:51:00.001-06:00

If you stop to think about it, this is a really scary revelation

Bored

2011-09-04T17:56:00.000-05:00

Vindication

2011-09-03T13:10:00.000-05:00

black opp pizza

2011-07-29T05:59:00.004-05:00

Mondays

2011-07-10T17:35:00.000-05:00

do NOT feed the animals

2011-02-18T10:42:00.000-06:00

bubbles

2011-02-12T15:28:00.000-06:00

sticky situation

2011-02-10T23:39:00.000-06:00

Not touching you

2011-01-31T15:59:00.001-06:00

Hurtful

2011-01-26T20:37:00.000-06:00

New and unusual cooking

2011-01-24T15:07:00.000-06:00

New, new age cooking

2011-01-19T10:57:00.000-06:00

Christmas

2011-01-17T07:20:00.000-06:00

Yeah! My computer is finally healed and out of the PC ER !

So here is the long in coming Holiday Ivy. Sorry about the wait.

zero hour

2010-12-25T00:04:00.000-06:00

Job well done

2010-12-14T19:07:00.000-06:00

Love you Daddy

2010-12-09T16:47:00.000-06:00

Lighter than air

2010-12-07T20:51:00.000-06:00

where is grandma?

2010-12-02T12:55:00.000-06:00

Grandma continued

2010-11-26T18:33:00.001-06:00

Even Agent X gets nervous...more nervous than usual

grandmas arrival

2010-11-26T18:31:00.001-06:00

Grandma is comming!

2010-11-13T17:15:00.000-06:00

Some days....

2010-09-29T05:03:00.001-05:00

What?

2010-09-12T21:58:00.000-05:00

Where does one keep their fish?

2010-08-04T01:54:00.000-05:00

Tinkering

2010-06-28T23:39:00.000-05:00

Modern education

2010-06-10T09:40:00.001-05:00

zap

2010-06-01T13:31:00.003-05:00

Hard copy

2010-05-17T21:45:00.005-05:00

skills

2010-04-30T11:18:00.005-05:00

Beufert

2010-04-16T08:39:00.000-05:00

I have long toyed with making an animated cartoon.

This is my first attempt, and I call him Beufert.

It is primitive and I cannot for the of of me get the music to sync.

But A: it's a start and

B: he dances better than I do.

daddy

2010-04-11T12:42:00.002-05:00

Happy Easter

2010-04-02T05:08:00.002-05:00

Ivy #5 : the grand tour continues

2010-03-22T17:45:00.002-05:00

dangerous substance

2010-03-18T18:03:00.000-05:00

Red buttons are NOT for Pushing

2010-02-16T15:11:00.002-06:00

HOMEWORK ALERT!!

Yet again I try to put nasty ol' content in an other wise simple place to look at comics.

Libraries and the net

When bibliophiles meet the WWW.

There are a lot of great things about the net. I'm not the greatest at it, but, like much of the world, I LOVE it!

I am also a fan of the "old ways".     I miss the little 4X5 cards in the elegant long drawers of the card catalog. And, given a choice I will always choose a real live paper and ink book.I also like to have a book in the hand reference to back up all the stuff I find when I google. Though to be honest, books on play away and CD do make certain chores like dishes and cooking much more fun. I guess I like to think that I'm flexible about technology.

The fact that libraries are embracing the net and other media is a source of delight for me.

The new catalogue at DBRL gives me a chance to interact and do all those little jobs and searches from home. One less trip on the bus. Yeah!
    The social aspects are a nice addition. I like to know what other fans of my favorite authors like too. It gives me a nice jumping off spot when diving in to the literary depths. It helps keep me from dregging up those works that would have been best left in the muck. ( not that I didnt read them anyway. Im a word freak)
         New technologies are kind of scary at first and I realize that it is yet one more thing to learn how to work on an already complicated maze of sites. But if they were all alike what fun would that be? Besides if libraries do not move with the times they will become repositories for moldering books that never leave the shelf. The day of the silence tombs of knowledge and vengeful librarians shushing the world is thankfully gone.    If patrons are frightened or feel unwelcome at the library, there are a lot of more easily accessed places to get what they want to know right on line. Heck you can even dial off information on your cell now.     If we want to maintain the viability of the library, we need to keep up with the rest of the world.
          I have of late, been exploring the social aspects of the net. And have enjoyed a few benefits from them.It takes just a few minutes to start a blog, a wiki, or a MySpace page. But keeping all those technologies going takes significantly more time and effort. Your Blogs need posts, wikis need content, and MySpace pages need updates. But I will give you the short (sort of) version of my adventures.

I started a blog at http://elfnoyes.blogspot.com/ there to my dismay I realized that I have NOTHING OF INTEREST to blog about. It is fortunate that I had a progecct that I have always wanted to explore. My own comic! So there you will find my experiments in the comic world. If you check her out please leave a comment ( a nice one would be my choice). I like knowing that someone has discovered it....wait a minute!

If you are reading this you alread have found it. (Duhhh. Nowhere in this blog have I ever hinted at more than minimal intelectual content on the mind of me)

Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/ Is rather interesting. It appears to be more of a "let's find a job" by interconnecting kind of place. but I am still new at it. So even if I am not looking for a job. I like the job I have right now. But, maybe I can find someone who could use an artist for the odd job.

I have been dabbling with myspace for sometime. You can find me at myspace.com/breakingthrew where I try to show off my art work. Someday the people at the Louvre will see this and come banging on my door with heavy check book in hand,

(don't laugh. We all have our fantasy).

Face book is well....interesting and fun. Yeah I joined that too. But be warned! the number of people that you can friend can be overwhelming. I'm not talking a few vague aquaintances, I am talking more people comming out of the woodwork than I can count even using fingers and toes. It can take hours to wade through it all. I won't even get into the whole application and invitation tidal wave. All I can say is I dont wanna be a pirate, farmer, jungle adventurer, zoo keeper, or mafia person. Please stop asking!

Now I don't want to make twitter feel bad, but I didn't join. It's not that I didn't think it was interesting or anything. It just apears too exhausting. So many updates! I would be so buisy twittering that I am certain that I couldn't do anything worth twittering about. Alas I am not one of those people who can text and walk, or anythingelse, at the same. So until I become a bit more dexterous (fat chance at that ), I will leave that one to the more adroit persons of the world.

univeral remote

2010-02-09T00:53:00.000-06:00

Something to see

2010-01-31T14:10:00.001-06:00

Something new and exciting from D.B.R.L!

Wow! A brand new catalog system. This is really something to look at.

I have been playing with it and it doesn't just work well with others. It is fun to play with.

OK I will admit that occasionaly I wax philosophical about the ancient practice of putting information down upon little 4 X5 index cards and imprisoning them within a multi-drawer cabinet. What can I say? It was fun to rifle through the cards and see what you came up with. Computer data base systems are so less random, thus slightly predicible. Not quite as much mystery or excitement of the random card.

But what this new system lacks in randomness it gains in ease of use and fun aplications. I can see the book, keep track of what I am currently or have been reading and make smarmy (not that I would) comments if the situation warrants it. Sigh, even I have read a couple of books over the years that made me want to scold the author and not let him watch t.v. until he rewrites the mess he made. With the new system I can check reviews when I see the book and get recommendations in just a click.

I am so excited.

Good catalog! You deserve a cookie!

The inner sanctum

2010-01-25T15:36:00.000-06:00

Exploring new ideas.

2010-01-19T14:16:00.003-06:00

Sometimes you just gotta try something new

Once again we interrupt this comic with a Homework Alert:

So in episode number six of our continuing saga of exploration we dip our toes in the ocean of video and pod casts available on the internet. It is a daunting task, to say the least. But being one of the intrepid explores in our happy band I must at the very least make a brave effort.

So here we have a few of the pearls that I have gleaned from the pool.

To begin with I started with the one that even I had heard of....YouTube and searched for library humor

One note of warning: this one is for viewing only. Do not try them in an actual library. To do so could cause serious bodily injury.

Then on a whim I tried vimeo.com

LOVED IT! These videos are just wonderful.

Freezelight Magic Forest from FREEZELIGHT.RU on Vimeo.

I am so into stop action animation!

They Might Be Giants, "I'm Impressed" from Bent Image Lab on Vimeo.

Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.

And of course this led me to the darker side of humor...I am at heart somewhat twisted.

And last but not least, a sweet treat

I suppose I should have put the pod casts before the video section, but I just wanna mix it up a bit and see if anyone ever makes it to the end of my homework.

Now I have listened to this one a lot (and I do mean A LOT) as it is my daughters favorite book. But I can honestly say, it has been a lot of fun.http://podcast.com/show/27834/Playing-for-Keeps/

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/cs This guy is great. I can't say that I agree with everything he has to say but the sentiments are interesting and well thought out.

This is also Dan Carlin and this time he is ranting about history. You might not think he is terribly exciting but you would be wrong. He comes at history from angles that one wouldn't think of. His work is very refreshing. http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

Snack time

2010-01-10T17:19:00.002-06:00

still touring

2010-01-04T10:26:00.006-06:00

We interrupt this cartoon for homework!

Today we are learning about: RSS & Newsreaders

Here we are again. It's homework time.

Not that I mind too much. Any excuse to web surf is probably a good enough excuse for me.

More links to explore!...this could become problem.

Too much to explore, so little time.

I had way way too much fun subscribing to stuff. I am an information pack rat. I adore learning new stuff, the more obtuse or useless the better. and since my favorite storage site is down and has been for months, this is great.

It only took me a few minutes to subscribe to 139 sites. Google Reader could so easily become a really baaaaaaaaaad habit.

But we are to report on only 3 library related links. So I will post only a few that have library or book in the title. But I gotta ask ,"What isn't library related? I mean libraries are the apotheosis of comprehensive."

The first of my choices was http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com/

The name alone is worth a look or two. The writing style is worth looks 3 and 4.

# 2 on the hit parade was http://practicallibrarian.blogspot.com/

A new way of looking at our work.

and last but not the least

# 3 http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/50-ways-to-leave-your-non-innovative-culture/

pretty pictures and words! what more could I ask for?

SO, that is this weeks homework completed. This is a very good thing because I wouldn't like to lie to you guys. I can't very well say my dog ate my home work ( my library card yes. And no I don't want it back) Alas, even for my dog, a computer is a difficult thing to swallow.

But I did it, and now his doggie tummy is safe from computer poisoning....I hope this doen't give him any unfortunate ideas.

Ivy #4: the grand tour begins (next)

2009-12-20T23:42:00.008-06:00

We interrup this comic to allow for the final lesson for net trek:

This blog has been created on goggle docs and imported to this blog.

Welcome to my homework . Here we will explore the best of blogs and web 2.0 sites.

OK, I will admit it. I have the curiosity of a ferret. Given the long list of cool sites on web 2.0 I got a little carried away.

I mean how can one just pick one? So................I didn't.

I picked a couple.. or more.

So here is my list of favorites. They are not in order of ranking. they are just numbered.

Blogs: Now dont go getting rankeled if your blog is not listed. I love reading them all, but what can I say there are a couple who appeal to my weird sense of humor.

http://sillysongsingalongs.blogspot.com/

has to be commended on her dedication. She has interesting content and quite the range.

http://nohmsts.blogspot.com/

I love the quiz.

http://darkmattr.blogspot.com/

I am not sure that this one if from the library. But who the heck cares? It's awsome!

http://mmmforbiddendonut-jimbo.blogspot.com/

OK Im a sucker for humor. There are far too many people who are serious in this world.

http://aweeklyreportonstuffstuckinmymustache.blogspot.com/

I guess I have to admit, so far this is my favorite.

Sites

1: http://www.hairmixer.com/

was great fun. I tried several styles of hair (none of which I could hope to do in real life) and laughed a lot at the bad ones...no you don't get to see them. I even tried a new look for my husband and daughter. Neither of which look good in the "bigger is better " styles. But then other than country western singers, who does.

2: http://comiqs.com/profile/

Interesting if you are a comic geek like me. It's an invitation to play. Irresistible.

3: http://www.pandora.com/#/

Music music music! Can I say more? It listened to even my bad taste and found music suitable for sending my family running for the hills.

4: http://www.zoho.com/

Organization is a dream of mine. I love all the apps. I am not sure what to do with them but its fun to play with all the buttons.

5: http://www.millionmasterpiece.com/

More people to play art with! Yippee. Every one gets a turn to create something. But if you are looking for fame give up. You will be lost in the masses.

6: http://www.threadless.com/

OK. Maybe I do have a bit of a fav. These Ts are great. T shirts with a twisted sense of humor. LOVE IT.

There were two sites that I felt needed to be included in the best of the best. So I'm adding them to my list.

http://www.live365.com/index.

live Radio stations that will expand your love of music in directions I never dreamed of.
(WARNING : habit forming)

http://www.dancarlin.com/index.htm

If you are a history geek or just love a good political rant, Dan Carlin has the best site EVER. His views are fresh and somewhat out of the outfield. But well researched and thought out. Usually I dislike ranting, but for Dan I will make a happy exception.

Well, there you have it my list of great sites. And blogs.

What more can I say?

elf

Ivy # 3 : Why have a robot?

2009-12-13T14:01:00.004-06:00

Ivy; beyond the bluescreen of death part 2

2009-12-06T16:04:00.002-06:00

Beyond the Blue Screen of Death: Chapter 1

2009-11-28T19:20:00.012-06:00

this is the first chapter of my comic. If you like it, let me know so I can continue. If you didn't ,let me know that too so I can improve...just be gentle I bruise easily. ;)

What the BLOG am I doing?

2009-11-19T19:03:00.001-06:00

So, here it is, a blog page. And it is setting there staring at me, all empty and white.

Not so scary, really. On a scale of one to ten, one being the old nightmare of showing up at school late on finals day after the test is over wearing a giant panda suit (does anyone else have that dream?)

And ten being trapped in a stopped elevator after drinking the super saver large soda, with several Bad Elvis impersonators, a divorcee who just has to talk to some one, two rappers and an unhappy looking dog who has just consumed a rather large amount of squishy french cheese.

A blog can at best only rate a four or five, somewhere between bathtub sharks and man eating ducks.

My problem is "what do you do when you haven't anything worth blogging about?".

So, I tried my friends, " what are you going to blog?" I would ask them craftily. Well darn, apparently, they were just about as clueless as I ( though, I like to think I am in a special class of cluelessness some what above the average)

Perhaps a book, I am a library associate after all.

So I looked and YES! There it was, Blogging for Dummies by Word Press. Then I saw those little works

"all copies are currently checked out". I take no little comfort in the fact that there are others in my situation, while at the same time being irritated by the fact that my rescue resource was out of my reach.

Double darn with HANGNAILS!

Then I stumbled upon the obvious " look it up on line!"

A brilliant idea, there are lots of bloggers out there. Someone should have idea or two. And they did.

Now I am not sure if many of these are good subjects for blogging, but they gave me something to do for a few minutes of my copious amounts spare time.

Here are some of the ideas I tried and my results (for the record these are real I did not make up any of these ideas)

Go gor a walk and come back with some "treasures".

This I did, several times. Alas the dog wanted to share in the experience and I really don't want to talk about the "treasures" I gathered.

Draw simple pictures on napkins and put them in your kids lunch bags.

I discovered that

A. this is NOT cool MOM!

B. I am an embarrasment to all preteens even those I am not related to and

C. My daughter is now eating only hot lunches that are garanteed parent tamper proof safe.

I suppose I should be thankful that they haven't covered restraining orders in sixth grade civics class yet.

Still I have not found my blog subject.....

Make a sock puppet and pretend that it is your alter ego

Yet another learning experience.

So I made my new friend and named him hugo. Hugo and I got along famously. My daughter rolled her eyes and suggested that I get some proffessional help.

My husband, used to my oddities, had a lovely conversation with Hugo. It seems they both enjoy the John Stewart Daily show.

And alas the dog nabbed my poor alter ego and is holding him hostage somewhere under the bed.

I am so glad I used my husbands sock.

Write your creativity manifesto

I really plan on getting to this one...just as soon as I look up the word manifesto.

There were a lot more ideas, most of them were far more time consuming than I could handle. Or would get me even closer to my family buying me a nice white coat with buckes on the back.

For now I will have to content my self with the fact that I still haven't anything to write about. And later tonight I will begin renegotiations for Hugos almost safe release.

Dance of the blocked blogger

2009-11-17T18:12:00.026-06:00

It is time to update the ol' blog again I am running behind with Ivy. Therefore I am stumped for content. Then a wonderful thought came to me.
There are many ways to express your self. And I decided to do an expression of dance...Of course since no one wants to see me dance (no really, it is NOT a pretty sight). I thought I would share a couple of my favorite videos.
Maybe there is something to this whole evolution thingy.

This next one is great not only do you get to play with your food, but it sounds good too

when is a muse not a muse?

2009-11-08T23:30:00.000-06:00

Relax

2009-11-02T19:50:00.002-06:00

I looked around the room. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Everything was normal
Finally I could relax

Horrible Habits

2009-11-02T14:08:00.000-06:00

OK, Everybody is allowed one bad habit
Of course I keep a selection and rotate them daily (sometimes hourly).

Of all my bad habbits, I best love the dubious beauty of the majestic pun.
The pun or paronomasia, if you wanna get fancy, is a form of word play that exploits similar sounding words for the punnsters own evil purposes, and or amusement.
Believe it or not, there really is a science to punning. they can even be classified... and no by that I do not mean bad worse and total groaners.Though any of those applied to a pun can and often is considered a compliment.

The first kind of pun is the homophonic pun . It uses word pairs that sound alike but are not the same in meaning.
For example, "Atheism: a non-prophet institution"

The second is the compound pun is a sentence that contains two or more puns. Such as, the sign on a golf course "when you have been drinking, do not drive. Don't even putt!"

The recursive pun is one of the most common. Itis a sentence that contains a pun that refers to similar sounding words.
"Where does bad light go? It goes to prism. "

A transpositional pun is a complicated format with two aspects. It involves transposing the words in a well-known phrase or saying to get a clever redefinition of a well-known word unrelated to the original phrase. The redefinition is thus the first aspect, the transposition the second aspect.
" Dieting: a waist is a terrible thing to mind" , is taken from " a mind is a terrible thing to waste. "

Spoonerisms are the act of moving letters about to create a whole new meaning to a statement.
One of my favorites is Dorthy Parker's famous "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" Later to be coined by tom t bone sankovitz.

A Feghoot is a short story ending in a truly atrocious pun. If you end your tale and the audience does not groan. Please try again.

A Wellerism is a phrase in which a quoted sentence is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed.
"We'll have to rehearse that," said the undertaker as the coffin fell out of the car. "

"I should have studied harder," said Tom testily

A daffynition is a pun format involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word .
"How much does a pirate pay for ear rings? a buccaneer."

As you can see the humble, and often horrible, pun has more than the eye can see to it.
There is both an art and a science to it.
It has been immortalized by many famous people. so I will include a few of their words.

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. ~Edgar Allan Poe

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. ~Doug Larson

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. ~Fred Allen

71/2 .Learning habbits

2009-10-29T17:21:00.000-05:00

7 1/2
Learning habits

STEP 1. Begin with an end in mind.
OK. here is a major problem for me. I am, by nature, as curious as a ferret. And probably the same amount of discretion. When I discover an new idea or an opportunity to learn a new skill, I leap in with both feet. Dignity is boring!
I have never really waited until it was necessary to learn a skill to fix a problem. if a sill is there for me to grab onto now, I will.
Of course with no real goal in mind to force me to learn I never worry about deadlines.
What can I say? I'm the person who likes to get my term paper finished a week after it's assigned. Now don't get me wrong, I am not an eager beaver, greasy-grind for responsible time usage. It is just that I learned early that I like deadlines (I especially like the cool sound they make when the go whooshing by). It's just easier to fight procrastination by jumping in the deep end and paddling around until you know what you are doing. If I make myself get excited, I wont quit until I get it right. It's very difficult for me to set the "end" artificially, because I'm never as good at anything as I am going be.

STEP 2. Accept responsibility for your own learning.
There's a given! If I'm not learning it I am a) in need of some skill that this skill should be built upon. This means do some review work and find out what I need to do this. Or b) I am not understanding my resource correctly. Do I need additional resources? Time for research.

STEP 3. View problems as challenges.
I love a challenge! If you win regularly, you need a harder game. Failure is where I learn the most, though I prefer to not have challenges that leave scars ( I hate pain and highly disapprove of blood...it means I am probably leaking from somewhere)

STEP 4. Have confidence in yourself as a competent learner. I dunno....competent? Me? Eager, excited, curious, yep I am capable of those. But competent? Maybe...I'll let you know when I feel that I have mastered something.

STEP 5. Create your own learning toolbox.
Tools.....yippee! I love tools! Hand tools, power tools, books, resources, and skills that you pick up when you least expect it, pinch me I am salivating just thinking about them.
My favorite thing is when I find a tool and put it to an unexpected (and generally unrecommended by the manufacturers) use.

STEP 6. Use technology to your advantage.
Back to the tools! Technology rocks! I sooo wanna be a techno geek. Again I find new skills around every corner.

STEP 7. Teach/Mentor others.
I'm not a half bad teacher. I'm not quite great either. I just like to share. When I share what I have learned , the person I shared with gives me all sorts of new ideas....

STEP 1/2 Play!
This is my favorite part! I love to play. You learn so much playing. I especially love non computerized games. Nintendo is OK, but it's so much more fun to play WITH someone real.
I am terrible at most games. this makes me a popular opponent because you get to win more. This is OK because the challenge and the fun is in the game itself, Besides, I learn more with every loss.

collective nouns

2009-10-24T16:47:00.000-05:00

Many people collect things, like nick-knacks, trading cards , rocks or jewelry.

Me? I collect words. They are fun, easy to care fore and do not take up a lot of storage space and I never, never have to dust them.
It isn't just because they are part of my job, or the fact that I am an addicted reader.
I love words. I love the way they fit together. I love the fact that they are thoughts that last, sometimes for centuries. And, yes I am biased. but I love the fact that my native tongue is a mishmash of many other languages.

Like most mixed up things, English is a playful language. One of the many fun things about the English Language is the invention of collective nouns. I love to find these little gems. Often they convey a lot about the individual and how they are perceived.

armory of aardvarks shrewdness of apes

congress of baboons (OK does this sound vaguely unpatriotic to anyone else?...it does create a very funny image, though)

An aurora of polar bears sleuth of bears (or if they are particularly quiet ursine) a sloth of bears

a babble of barbers a bask of crocodiles

a clash of coughs a catalog of librarians

chain of bobolinks flight of bees

clash of bucks

Cats could have their own list there are so many ways to describe them. Here are just a few of my favorites
a clowder of cats clutter of cats
glaring of cats (no creature on earth can glare like a freshly bathed cat)
pounce of cats nuisance of cats (especially in the kitchen, underfoot)
kindle of kittens (No I don't know what a kindle is but it's fun to say)
destruction of wild cats (...or my cats in a playful mood)

lodge of beavers An obstinacy of Buffalo

rabble of butterflies wake of buzzards (kind of ominous , don't you think?)

peep of chickens chattering of chicks

quiver of cobras rag of colts

float of crocodiles murder of crows

pace of donkeys piteousness of doves

wing of dragons raft of ducks

aerie of eagles swarm of eels

memory of elephants gang of elk

business of ferrets charm of finches

skulk of foxes gaggle of geese

tower of giraffes cloud of gnats

implausibility of gnus trip of goats

charm of goldfinches glint of goldfish

skein of goslings leash of greyhounds

horde of hamsters (appropriate for hamsters to whom 2+2= millions)

down of hares cast of hawks

prickle of hedgehogs bloat of hippopotami

clan of hyenas scold of jays

smack of jellyfish mob of kangaroos

exaltation of larks leap of leopards

lounge of lizards (I guess that's where that euphemism came from)

plague of locusts tidings of magpies

mischief of mice labor of moles

barren of mules watch of nightingales

romp of otter parliament of owls

company of parrots ostentation of peacocks

bouquet of pheasants chine of polecats

passel of possum gaze of raccoons

huddle of penguins (of course they huddle it's cold down there)

bob of seals bale of turtles

crash of rhinoceroses fold of sheep

descent of woodpeckers host of sparrows

hover of trout knot of toads

a plague of rats (not like we hold a grudge or anything)

rumba of rattlesnakes scurry of squirrels

shiver of shark sneak of weasels

storytelling of ravens streak of tigers

warren of wombats zeal of zebras