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Posted on 2024-05-03
But we still know
In the minds that we found
That if we get there
We'll still be around.
Vivian Heyl - October 3, 2023
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I'm looking for Bad Boobla Habba.
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Vivian's lyric for the day.
If I were you
Which I'm glad I'm not
---
Here's a good song lyric.
I know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna stay with you.
-LH
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Wanna play a game?
I'll say something and you reply. You can't say the same thing.
And it has to make some kind of nonsense.
Continue back and forth.
We enjoyed that.
-LH
---
Isn't it funny how money doesn't fool anybody.
- Viv
---
I'm not a one person family.
-Viv
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Wise guys in disguise are hiding from the truth.
(There's got to be more)
-LH
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When do you want to go to Valley Vo?
---
What yeah, yeah what?
What yeah yeah yeah
Yeah what?
Chicken butt.
---
Music is a lifetime commitment to figuring out how to get great gear when you're poor.
-LH
---
Being a jazz and blues DJ is a lifetime commitment to being hip.
-LH
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There's nothing in the world I would rather do
than be with you.
---
A lyric or a poem.
Dawn Is Coming Soon
by Larry Heyl, copyright 2024, CC BY
I can't get around if it's not brown
Down among the weeds where the seeds split the dirt.
Under the ground where the roots suck water
The elf king's daughter sings without a sound.
Willow trees sway in the wind all day
At night swallows sleep with nary a peep.
The elf king's daughter dances under the moon
while the owls hoot hoot, "Dawn is coming soon."
-LH inspired by Vivian
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The tracks and the crown are just giving the sound and it's the message.
The Ghost Of The Oracle
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The Ghost Of The Oracle Quest
Session notes
March 16, 2024
The party gathered at The Sign Of The Golden Elk to discuss the meaning of Queen of Desperation, a recent prognostication of The Ghost Of The Oracle.
Thokk wanted to go talk to the Mayor to see if they were desperate about something. He called Barton the bartender over to ask where to find the Mayor. The Ghost Of The Oracle said something about Mr. BB.
The party went to talk to Grogloc, the Mayor. When asked if they were desperate he said with a lot of bluster that they were Dwarves. They had a mine. And they had plenty of gold. If the party wanted to help him they could spend their money in town, at the Inn, the taverns, and the Red Devil Emporium. Then he burst into a favorite dwarven song, Gold, Gold , Gold, Gold.
When asked, Grogloc said he had not heard of Mr. BB but he knew AA and CC, two dwarves who ran the Red Devil Emporium.
The party visited The Red Devil Emporium to find out about Mr. BB and to shop. AA and CC were behind the counter. They said they never heard of Mr. BB. Everybody shopped for stuff including a kettle because the Oracle had said Kettle Down. Elder Yawn bought some pipeweed from Hill Shire. They also wanted some herbs and potions the emporium didn't have. So AA and CC sent them to the herbalist.
At the Golden Elk Herbalist they met Gladiola, a human healing witch. She sold Elderly Yawn some Pineapple Sticchi Icchi (the good stuff). And she sold Listenherebub a slightly larger bag of Gladiola's Special Blend recommended for anxiety. When Gladiola heard them talking about The Queen Of Desperation she went and got a small golden (colored) statue from her trinkets shelf and sold it to Thistle, the elf.
The Ghost Of The Oracle spoke of light under but not over and she also mentioned beds so they thought they might need to check under the beds at the Inn. The herbalist sent them on to Dolphin Inn, a small establishment with rooms, a restaurant, and a larger function room. The innkeep doubled his income by letting monsters sleep under the beds with people sleeping on top.
In front of the Dolphin Inn was a fountain with pennies in the pool and a sculpture of a dolphin dancing on it's tail and spraying water straight up into the air. The Oracle had said, "Left in the water fountain" and Shuba, the halfling dancer couldn't find anything left in the pond except pennies so she climbed right in to neck deep water (for a small halfling) and started dancing while circling left. The mayor and other townsfolk came out and clapped and threw pennies into the pond. As she spun faster the dolphin blew harder and soon everyone was soaking wet.
They went into the Inn and Thokk started to check under the beds and found a giant shrew comfortably sleeping. After carefully replacing the bed he was intercepted by YoYo Longstring, the inn manager, who said they could only check rooms that were vacant of on the bed customers. In the 4 remaining vacant rooms he found a Bugbear, a Corpse Crawler, a Wolf, and a Cobra. Shuba, the Tiny Dancer, danced with the Bugbear and the Cobra. The Cobra climbed out of his basket so high that he hit his head on the ceiling and knocked himself out. Since his basket was about the same size as the kettle they bought from the emporium they transferred the cobra to the kettle and Shuba strapped it to her backpack.
By now, it was getting late and everyone was ready to party. They rented the function room and everybody came. The mayor, Grokloc, AA and CC, Gladiola, The wolf, Little Red Riding Hood, the Bugbear, the March Hare, and the Cobra in his kettle. Even the corpse crawler shuffled in and scooted under the drinks table with the dead sailors (empty beer bottles). They all ate pie and had a big old time drinking ale and smoking pipeweed.
In fact Listenherebub got so relaxed that he climbed right out of his chest of drawers and showed off his muscles wearing only body building shorts. He said he didn't need more clothes while he was in the chest of drawers.
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I don't want to talk about politics. I want to talk about Avatar The Last Airbender.
-MH
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Posted on 2024-05-03
But we still know
In the minds that we found
That if we get there
We'll still be around.
Vivian Heyl - October 3, 2023
---
I'm looking for Bad Boobla Habba.
---
Vivian's lyric for the day.
If I were you
Which I'm glad I'm not
---
Here's a good song lyric.
I know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna stay with you.
-LH
---
Wanna play a game?
I'll say something and you reply. You can't say the same thing.
And it has to make some kind of nonsense.
Continue back and forth.
We enjoyed that.
-LH
---
Isn't it funny how money doesn't fool anybody.
- Viv
---
I'm not a one person family.
-Viv
---
Wise guys in disguise are hiding from the truth.
(There's got to be more)
-LH
---
When do you want to go to Valley Vo?
---
What yeah, yeah what?
What yeah yeah yeah
Yeah what?
Chicken butt.
---
Music is a lifetime commitment to figuring out how to get great gear when you're poor.
-LH
---
Being a jazz and blues DJ is a lifetime commitment to being hip.
-LH
---
There's nothing in the world I would rather do
than be with you.
---
A lyric or a poem.
Dawn Is Coming Soon
by Larry Heyl, copyright 2024, CC BY
I can't get around if it's not brown
Down among the weeds where the seeds split the dirt.
Under the ground where the roots suck water
The elf king's daughter sings without a sound.
Willow trees sway in the wind all day
At night swallows sleep with nary a peep.
The elf king's daughter dances under the moon
while the owls hoot hoot, "Dawn is coming soon."
-LH inspired by Vivian
---
The tracks and the crown are just giving the sound and it's the message.
The Ghost Of The Oracle
---
The Ghost Of The Oracle Quest
Session notes
March 16, 2024
The party gathered at The Sign Of The Golden Elk to discuss the meaning of Queen of Desperation, a recent prognostication of The Ghost Of The Oracle.
Thokk wanted to go talk to the Mayor to see if they were desperate about something. He called Barton the bartender over to ask where to find the Mayor. The Ghost Of The Oracle said something about Mr. BB.
The party went to talk to Grogloc, the Mayor. When asked if they were desperate he said with a lot of bluster that they were Dwarves. They had a mine. And they had plenty of gold. If the party wanted to help him they could spend their money in town, at the Inn, the taverns, and the Red Devil Emporium. Then he burst into a favorite dwarven song, Gold, Gold , Gold, Gold.
When asked, Grogloc said he had not heard of Mr. BB but he knew AA and CC, two dwarves who ran the Red Devil Emporium.
The party visited The Red Devil Emporium to find out about Mr. BB and to shop. AA and CC were behind the counter. They said they never heard of Mr. BB. Everybody shopped for stuff including a kettle because the Oracle had said Kettle Down. Elder Yawn bought some pipeweed from Hill Shire. They also wanted some herbs and potions the emporium didn't have. So AA and CC sent them to the herbalist.
At the Golden Elk Herbalist they met Gladiola, a human healing witch. She sold Elderly Yawn some Pineapple Sticchi Icchi (the good stuff). And she sold Listenherebub a slightly larger bag of Gladiola's Special Blend recommended for anxiety. When Gladiola heard them talking about The Queen Of Desperation she went and got a small golden (colored) statue from her trinkets shelf and sold it to Thistle, the elf.
The Ghost Of The Oracle spoke of light under but not over and she also mentioned beds so they thought they might need to check under the beds at the Inn. The herbalist sent them on to Dolphin Inn, a small establishment with rooms, a restaurant, and a larger function room. The innkeep doubled his income by letting monsters sleep under the beds with people sleeping on top.
In front of the Dolphin Inn was a fountain with pennies in the pool and a sculpture of a dolphin dancing on it's tail and spraying water straight up into the air. The Oracle had said, "Left in the water fountain" and Shuba, the halfling dancer couldn't find anything left in the pond except pennies so she climbed right in to neck deep water (for a small halfling) and started dancing while circling left. The mayor and other townsfolk came out and clapped and threw pennies into the pond. As she spun faster the dolphin blew harder and soon everyone was soaking wet.
They went into the Inn and Thokk started to check under the beds and found a giant shrew comfortably sleeping. After carefully replacing the bed he was intercepted by YoYo Longstring, the inn manager, who said they could only check rooms that were vacant of on the bed customers. In the 4 remaining vacant rooms he found a Bugbear, a Corpse Crawler, a Wolf, and a Cobra. Shuba, the Tiny Dancer, danced with the Bugbear and the Cobra. The Cobra climbed out of his basket so high that he hit his head on the ceiling and knocked himself out. Since his basket was about the same size as the kettle they bought from the emporium they transferred the cobra to the kettle and Shuba strapped it to her backpack.
By now, it was getting late and everyone was ready to party. They rented the function room and everybody came. The mayor, Grokloc, AA and CC, Gladiola, The wolf, Little Red Riding Hood, the Bugbear, the March Hare, and the Cobra in his kettle. Even the corpse crawler shuffled in and scooted under the drinks table with the dead sailors (empty beer bottles). They all ate pie and had a big old time drinking ale and smoking pipeweed.
In fact Listenherebub got so relaxed that he climbed right out of his chest of drawers and showed off his muscles wearing only body building shorts. He said he didn't need more clothes while he was in the chest of drawers.
---
I don't want to talk about politics. I want to talk about Avatar The Last Airbender.
-MH
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by Vivian Heyl 1950-2024
Vivian Running Sound At Blues Fest
Vivian was editor at Delta Boogie since we started the site in 1996. She wrote almost all of our Delta Musicians section, the most popular area on Delta Boogie. She also wrote anything else on Delta Boogie that doesn't have a byline.
She also worked for the Times Dispatch in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, where she contributed many features and some reporting. Her work at the Times Dispatch regularly won awards from the Arkansas Press Association.
Writing was her passion. She wrote for her whole life. Much of it we still have in computer files. I am posting her work here as I find it.
by Larry Heyl
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Gretchen says:
Today we celebrate Vivian Heyl. Mom, Grandma, Viv. Whatever name you knew her by, I'm sure at some point in time she used her gift of nurturing on you. She was indeed a nurturer - of the mind, body and spirit. Her words of encouragement could only be outdone by her quick wit and, when needed, sharp tongue. She loved unconditionally, but she had no problem calling you on your crap. She welcomed ALL to her family - and about the only thing that would get you unwelcome was making someone else feel that way. Today we celebrate the life she lived, the example she set and the love she shared.
Many have asked what they can do for the family or in memory of Mom - I offer these suggestions:
Play a game with your family. There is nothing that would be a better gift than to share joy with your family and in memory of Mom.
Read a book (it can have pictures). Mom loved to go on adventures in books and she led us kids down the same path.
Encourage a kid (preferably one who no else even seems to notice). I promise that is the one Mom would spot first and immediately bring into the fold.
We would also love to hear your stories about Mom. We would love anyone who would like to share stories or memories to do so in the comment thread. Maybe you have a story where you realized, possibly even years later, that you had been molded by a momma's love in the form of Vivian Heyl.
If you would like to make a memorial gift, please consider the children and youth fund at Brookland UMC or the friends of the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library, the Lawrence County Library or your local library.
Lastly, just keep loving us! We are sad, but we are blessed.
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Delta Boogie Newsletter/Gamer+ News - May 2024 - This One's For Vivian
https://gamerplus.org/@hairylarry/pages/1714661546292
My wife Vivian was the editor of Delta Boogie and a regular contributor to Gamer+. She helped me with everything I did including Blues Fest for 25 years, The Bandshell Project, Jonesboro Computer Services, The Jonesboro User Group, and so much more. I don't know what I'll do without her.
On April 18, 2024, Vivian passed on.
She was a writer all her life and I am collecting her writings here.
https://deltaboogie.net/words
She worked at The Times Dispatch in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, for years. Her features regularly won Awards from the Arkansas Press Association.
She wrote almost all of Delta Musicians, the most popular section on Delta Boogie, where she provided Delta Bluesmen with a place on the internet back in the nineties. She also wrote all of the articles on Delta Boogie that do not have a byline.
She played and ran fantasy RPGs with dice and miniatures at ASU Beebe in the early seventies before D&D was published.
We home schooled our children and she saw their love of D&D as an educational opportunity for reading, writing, history, the arts, and, of course, math.
She loved music and games and she raised a family of musicians and gamers.
We have five children and seven grandchildren. I had two boys before we married and she loved them like her own.
She saved my life and she gave me a good life. I love her still and always.
For her, I thank you all, for your continued support of Delta Boogie, Gamer+, Delta music, NEA gaming and whatever else it is that you do to make the world a little bit better.
Please take a minute and say a prayer.
Thanks,
Hairy Larry
https://gamerplus.org/@hairylarry
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com
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