Laughables

[WitchQueen]

The only reason I pretended a Saudi Arab was because they were the ones I saw on the TV at the racetrack show. I am not a gambler but for a few years now I make a small bet on the Kentucky Derby and the other two Triple Crown races. I usually loose but this year the Kentucky Derby was on my birthday, May 2nd and I won an exacta of $312.00 This was a big surprise. I made the bet at the off track betting parlor and was there with my father to make the bet. Then I left and met with Rhonda, Amie and the children and we went to Chinese Buffet for lunch. It was a nice day and I did not know I won the bet until I looked it up on Equibase results on the computer later in the day.

Back to the Arabs, this was the year 2000. I thought they were interesting in America so I started making up a story. I always make a place to live and I called him Mohamed. At that time I knew enough to do that. I study about Islam ever since. Now I think the Arab should be a Moroccan and the Palace should be in Morocco. You can see some of this thinking in the story of Ahmed and Ishtar. I pretend we had some children who did not have parents any more be with us. This story would be six teen boys and four teen girls and two three year old little girls and two three year old little boys. There would be one teen African girl and one little boy African. The teens are close to sixteen or sixteen. About that, Mohamed could decide where they are from and of course at least two teens are Moroccan and one little girl is Moroccan and the other little boy is Moroccan.

The Palace: It has a very large room in the center inspired by a church I use to go to. The ceiling is very high. The area is large and it is very beautiful. It has an alter in the front made of marble tiles. At the back are the inner entrance doors. There are three sets of double glass and brass doors with cinamin brick columns in between. The back area is tiled with flat light grey ceramic tiles with grey grout. Cinamin bricks line around the edge of the floors in the great room and the outer corridors. In further the floors are dark hardwood floors. Since this is a big area, I kept some of the rows of the oak benches you would see in the church. Maybe five or seven rows. On the alter I put a large brick fireplace. There are brick(always cinamin) wall sections and columns in this Mosque Room. That is what I called it.

I kept the pipe organ. (I use to play a little until I became a computer person) There really are pipes on the walls. That is to the left of the alter. There is a piano to the left also against the left wall by the alter. There are a balconey on the second floor on each side of the room. I designed these to be the libraries. The balcony is large and there is a brass rail along the front wall to keep one from falling. The libraries have book shelves around and agaist the back wall there is TV unit. There is a DVD player (which I do not have). One side the boys use and the other side the girls and younger children use.
This was the best story but now so is Ahmed and Ishtar.

More about the Palace next time.
WitchQueen

[WitchQueen]

(First of all I use to read books and short stories and articles. When I worked in the library I would read on my break or take the book home. I like Stephen King, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Romance. I wanted to have a book in the libraries. So it is only natural that I would start making up a story or so which I did.)

The Mosque Room is about 70 or 75 x75 feet size. It is really large. Probably holds at least 1200 people. I decided to keep ten rows of benches in the back part. There are eight sections kind of angle rounded and each bench must hold eight or ten people. Ten rows are eighty benches. They are oak and they are called pews. May be we could keep five rows on each side in the front. Maybe Mohamed would not want the the five extra rows., He might want the area opened for true Mosque. There would be an Arab carpet in between the benches and the alter. The carpet could be cream, maroon and brown design. The carpets in the balconies are the same style. The ceiling is the kind where the four triangle roofs connect. The corners of this room have large clear window skylights. The corners are not squared they are angled about twelve or fifteen feet to the next wall. If anyone would like to see this building, google Saint joseph's roman catholic church, toms river, nj. Click on photos. The pictures do not really show how large this church is but if you look careful, you can see the pipes for the organ, the window skylights and the front entrance. This is a truly beautiful building.

I prefer the ceiling planked dark in the Mosque Room and the Libraries. The libaries have hardwood floors, the carpet and three foot bookcases around the room except for where the TV unit is. The would be a painting on the walls on either side of the TV unit which is recessed about three feet. There would also be a large painting on either of the side walls. Both the boys and girls library are set up this way. May be the paintings on the side walls are of Dragon Scenes Or Midevael scenes. There are photographs in picture frames on the tops of the three foot bookcases except the front ones which overlooks the Mosque below. The libraries are about thirty feet long and twenty five feet(approx) wide. They are around thirty feet long though. There is a brown sofa facing the TV unit and another brown sofa to the right and left to make a group. There is a large Chinese maroon square coffee table inside the group. There is a sqaure end table on each side where the sofas meet.

There is a round stainglass window above the TV units at both balconies. The stainglass is green with the red Morocco Star in the center. The stain glass looks dramatic from the Mosque below and the balcony libraries.

I use to play piano some. organ would be harder. The organ is to the left of the alter. The pipes are on the walls right and left. There are four sets of pipes and approx six pipes at each section. The larger pipes are nearer the outer corner brick wall and the rest work their way toward the alter. The bricks by the pipes are set so that there are square holes for the amplifiers. On the right side of the alter there is a small table where there is a CD Player to play music. The front wall meets at the corner where there is another six foot wide wall partition.is. There is an opening here on each side and then another brick partition. All the columns and wallls, and partitions must support the roof. In between these partitions is a ceiling over a walking area to another section of the Mosque. There are four large abstract stain glass windows along the walk with columns in between. Both side are similar but not exact. There is a white ceiling about ten feet high and the clear glass window Skylights are above these white ceilings.

On the left side of the alter there is the area of the organ, metal music holders for the singer or musician and a podium for reading. This has a wireless microphone. There is a two forrt wide curved wall around here to keep people out. The other side has a two foot wall planter for plants. That is also curved. By the left side there are wide steps with oak with maroon cloth covered seats. This would be for the chior. We will leave these chairs. I think there are three or four rows and there are quite a few seats.

I never pretended that the Saudi was Excaliur but I did pretend It was in the Palace on the dark wood hutch on the left side of the room. There is also a dark wood hutch on the right side of the room.

That is it for now.
WitchQueen

[WitchQueen]

The only person I mentioned the Palace to was Brahim. That was all. I did not describe it in any way. That was 2001. Bill who owns the rainbow Diner is Greek. Across the highway near is the Ocean Queen Diner which Andy owns. He is also Greek and owns another Diner called the Ocean Bay Diner. This one is in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ. They have people with accents working at their businesses some times. They are fair.

The Saudis have Excalibur too. I am sure . I saw the movie The Kingdom and it was very good. I would see it again. One of my favorites. Sad ending.

The ceilings: The balconey libraries have a peaked ceiling which is also wood planked dark stain and varnished. The floors in the balconies are dark brown ceramic tile. The arab carpets are bone, chinese red, black and brown design. Mostly bone. The square Chinese coffe table is large carved ornate. It is Chinese red which has been rubbed with black. The top of the table is glass with a border around it.

There are round metal disks at the point of the window skylights. The metal frames are connected at the disk. The glass is probably air plane wind shield glass. That would be best. Alarge wood beam stained dark runs from the point of the window skylight across the wood planked ceiling to the next point of the next wood window skylight. This is how the beams run from point to point which creats a large beamed square. The corners are mitered. Since beams are very heavy, these beams are probably three boards about twelve inches wide nailed or bracketed togeth to form the beams. At the peak of the ceiling is another six foot beamed square with a Moroccan Motif inside the panel at the ceiling. The motif is blue, cranberry and white motif with a round cranberry center. I design the ceilings.

On the outside of the large square form the beam to the library wall, the planked ceilings on either side have two rowws of round indirect lights. There are seven round lights in each of the two. Same in in front of both libraries. The ceilings slope up to the center. Thre are three indirect lights attached to the center of the beam facing down to the alter platform. Each side outside of the square, the ceilings slope down toward the Mosque. At the front there is a cutout in the ceiling above the alterplatform. The cut out is shaped like a ice cream cone cut in half into the ceiling. At the back of the Mosque a glass window fits up into the round cut out. The back wall has glass windows.

The ceramic tiles in the large entrance way, the corridors that go left and right turn and go toward the back and the back of the Mosque before the oak benches are light brown tiles. There are bricks along the florr even with the ceramic tiles along the edges. The bricks are set long ways out from the walls. In the corridors once in awhile bricks run across the corridor to break up the floor tiles. The side coridors run along the other sides of the Mosque Room walss to a doorway. There are a few rooms along the way. Through the door there is a small alcove with an exit door to the right or left according to which side you are on. Then there is another door which takes you to the walkthrough with the abstract stain glass windows. This area can be seen from the Mosque . There are four windows about seven feet wide. The windows have a narrowere window on each side and then there is the five foot window in the center. The center window is straight at the top pointed in the middle and then straight again. The four windaows are like this with a column in between each set. The columns are brick along the outer area and white stucco in the center. Each window has a recessed light fixture which is shaped like a semi circle. They are dark brown semi shiny metal. They are about five inches high by ten around and the bottoms are enclosed. The fixtures hang wideways. They are wavy from bottom to top and the light bulb goes into the top. The light reflects up and the are on some of the colums and along the corridors.

The floors of the walk throughs are colorful Moroccan tiles and the fire place on the alter platform is also compatible moroccan tiles with a dark mantel. The fireplace could be fairly large because there is room. It cannot be a real burning fireplace beacause the chimney just would not work through the roof.

The carpet in the Mosque Room is bone, black, brown and maroonish red. The wood chairs on the steps have maroonish red cloth seats. The steps where the choir chairs are located are like marble. That is how they look. They are wide stairs. The alter platform is probably imatation marble. White with light grey viens. There are three rows of brick steps to the platform and the platform istself has bricks going around the edge of the semicircle alter platform. The is a samll metal railing on the sides of the platform. The front is opened. The fireplace is on another platform one bick edge high. The fireplace platform is also marble with brick around the edge. This platfrom comes out on the right side of the fireplace where there is a green marble podium with a wireless microphone on it for the Imam to speak. There is a larger chair with a high back and arms on the other side of the fireplace on the platform. This is where the other microphone stand is and this you can take the microphone out and walk around with it. Wireless.

WitchQueen

[WitchQueen]

The tiles on the alter platfrom are white marble with no other colors in the tiles. The steps with the chairs are also white marble. Above the fireplace there is a large meaningful painting. The podium will be dark oak stand instead of green marble. The high back chair on the platform is dark with maroonish red cloth seat. The carpet is mostly maroonish red with design of brown, black and antique white, The balconey caroets are mainly dark brown with design of chinese red, black and qntique white. The carpets have the same design patterns.

There are columns along the wall under the balconies. There are one along each side and two underneath support with three ten feet white stucco panels in between the columns. The hutch is against the stucco wall panel in the center under the balconies.

The Mosque floor is dark hardwood floor from the tiles in the back to the front around the semi circle alter platform. The tiles in the back are behind the oak benches . The tile pattern is curved in the back. The benches are not straight, one section after another. The first two sections are set up straight and then each section toward the side walls are angled some toward the center. The sections kind of curve. The center first benches are naroower then the ones in front of them. The narrower benches are centered with the benches form a gntle curve as they progress toward the center part of the Mosque Room.

When you come into the Mosque Room, there are three double doors. They are metal and glass. The doors are are to a point at their tops. They make a rectangle and then a triangle top. The wall above the doors are glas windows with metal frames. the frames are black. The window that fits into the half cone is at the top. The window is rectangle and then rounded at the top to fit into the round end of the cone. Theis window is devided in half and is of two separate panes. The cone cutout inside theceiling can be covered in Moroccan ceiling motif to match the motif in the square at the peak of the ceiling in the Mosque Room.

When you enter the Mosque Room from the back to the left and the right there is a brick wall about eight feet with a door. This door is to the penance room where you would have confession with the priest. I pretend that this is a coat closet. Guys for one side and the girls for the other side. Outside there is an natural oak table with a shelf on the bottom. There is one on each wall to the right or left of the penance room door. There would be copies of the Quran on these tables incase someone needs one when they come to Prayers.

WitchQueen

[WitchQueen]

You enter the Mosque Room through one of the three double doors in the back. The doors come to a point at the center. They look like rectangle with triangle on the top, but they are one piece. The doors are dark metal. To the left and right of the doors are a one and half foot wide wall. There is a corner here and there are walls about six feet on the other wall of the corner. The doors to the penance closet are diagonal and around the corner is another six or ten foot wall. This makes the walls of the penance room. Above the door of the rooms are a wood designed partition as wide as the doors. There is one door and one room on each side of the back wall.
At the end of the wall there are clear glass windows. Three panels each. They are angled and then there are another three glass panels and the center one has a stucco and brick panel with rectangle, triangle top design. Each side has this. The statues would be in front of these panels. The bricks are around the edge. Then there are the next three window panels. The panels have another panel with etched pictures on them of Islamic scenes. They are bracketed to the frames of the windows. We could put a Muslim woman in front of the stucco partitions. One on each side. Above the windows and panels is the three foot wide ceiling which goes to the other side of the glass wall here. The window skylights in the back of the Mosque are like this. The walk throughs in the front have three foot high ceilings over them with the window skylights above.

Around the corner of the glass window panels are a six foot high(Approx) brick wall which again there is a turn to the outer walls where the balconies and stucco partitions are. There is a brick wall next to the balconies and stucco panels about six/ten feet wide. There is a dark metal door near the corner on the outer wall side. The left side of the Mosque Room is the same. The doors go to the corridor on the other sides of the walls. The one on the left side go out, go right and it takes you to the men's and lady's restrooms.

The walk through is open to the Mosque Room and the skylight windows to the carridors in the back are not.

There is a dark wood sill along the balconey opening with a six inch brass tube rail. I decided that the colors in the carpets there are dark brown with antique white, black and maroonish red. The Chinese coffee table is also maroonish red rubbed with black when it was finished. This gives effect and most is all rubbed off.

Some of the doors on this level are natural and varnished and some are dark metal. All metal frames are dark.

Under the white stucco panel on the left side nearest the front of the Mosque is a clear rectangle glass window with metal frame. The window is about eight or nine feet wide. Women with children would sit on the other side of this window area. For prayers, Muslim women could sit here. I do not know if a metal screen would be in front of the window. There is another smaller window in the four foot brick wall next to the balconey and panel. The chairs there are folding chairs and would be put away during the week. They are color brown.

When you walk down the aisle along the side walls you come to a brick wall partion near the front of the Mosque Room. This is right angle with the four foot brick wall next to the balconies/stucco panels. There is a dark stained table against this partition facing the back of the Mosque. The table has two drawers under the top and a shelf down near the bottom. The table is ornate. There is a painting hanging above these tables on both side of the Room.. The frames are dark. The painting above the fireplace has a wood painted gold frame.

The mantel should be white marble. There is a table on the alter. Should be white marble. In the back where you enter, there is a basin for holy water. This will not be for that but I would like to keep the fountain for some humidity. This is also white marble. Could be imatation. There is one stair to the right walk through on the front side of the two foot high brick planter wall. On the other side one step up also. There is a round circle inset on this walk thru platfrom. The inset is marble tile like the alter platform. There is a white marble stand in the circle with plants around it. There is a dark metal birdcage on this stand. It may be too lonely there so the bird might be artificial.

There is a maroonish red sofa centered between the stained glass windows on the walk thru on the left. On the right side there is a black laquaured Chinese chest centered between the stained glass windows. The hardware is brass.
This is the Mosque Room.

WitchQueen

[WitchQueen]

The bricks are light brown, then a little darker and then medium brown inside and out. There is a white valance over the stain glass windows that fit like puzzle pieces, The valance is about eight inches thick and match the three foot ceiling above.
The carpet is semi circle and fits into the curve of the benches. There is a runner along the aisle along the sides and there may be two rectangle smaller carpets nearer the alter platform. There may be smaller rectangle carpets, one on each side of the alter platform. There are about two rows of five natural wood chairs with maroonish red cloth seats on the sides of the alter platform.
The clear glass windows with the etched panels are rectangle. The panels are rectangle and come to a triangle top. The windows go out toward the corridor then they go straight but this is really the diagonal cut, then the panels come back toward the other wall or partition. The window skylights above are angled the same way.
There would be a white rectangle marble table with a brass candle holder with a eight inch wide cinamin colored candle. The marble tables with the candles are on each side of the statues of the muslim women. (Art)
there are 4x8 inch brown metal light fixtures about a foot and half from the ceiling on the brick columns. There are a Moroccan wall light fixture on the columns on either side of the stucco panel where the hutches are. There is one brass and red glass fixture on the front of the right partition wall facing toward the alter platform.
The doors on the Mosque level that are not dark metal are wood stained a Moroccan redish brown stain. The interior exit and entrance doors have a 1 1/2 foot rectangle window on the side of the doors where the hinges are. The doors have brass push plates and handles on the opening side.
There is a door to the music room on the left walk thur platform that you can not see from the Mosque area. There is another penance room on the right side walk thur platform which would be used to keep office supplies in. The office is not far from this closet.
The bird cage would have maybe three birds in the cage. Finch, Canary or Lovebirds. Just two Lovebirds.
The outside exit/entrance doors are rectangle with triangle to where the doors meet. They are dark metal.
The Moroccan ceiling motif is not red, white or blue. There is a really nice one that would match on The Palace Ceiling Tiles. Google if you want to see.
We would have to find a really nice electric fireplace logs since this fireplace can not be operational. The wall behind and above the fireplace would be white.
The balconey library ceiling are planked. They would be divided into three sections with a nice molding to break it up. The ceiling is dark stained. The dark stain would be the kind you would use on pine wood. It is more brown and shows the grain fo the wood nice.
The heat/air? vents are between the white stucco panels under the balconies. They come out about eight inches. The balconey overhangs the white stucco panels in between the columns.
The columns are ornate. They may come up three feet and then indent a brick so the bottom is wider than the top. On the front of the colums they are flat , then they indent a brick and indent a brick width again. Something like that. The columns are squared and I am sure there are metal framing within. Probably lots of metal framing.
The back glass wall where the thre double doors are have columns in between. The doors meet and are pointed. Above window panels fit like puzzle pieces around the doors.
Some of this you can see if you check out the web site of the church I earleir posted.

WitchQueen

[WitchQueen]

The balconey moldings would go long ways.
The marble stands, alter taable, fountain sink stand, and podium are medium cinamin. There is no podium in the music pit. Just some metal music stands and the microphone and this is where the organ is.
The ceiling of the walk thur is the same as the ceiling where the clear glass panels are. It is just that this is open to the Mosque Room and there are no glass panels in the front corners. The ceiling is point from the brick partition walls in to the straight diagonal cut. The cutouts are actually triangles that have been cut in the middle and do not have the pointed top.
The black Chinese laquar chest is actually a credenza.
The door frames and moldings would be the dark brown stain even if the doors themselves are brownish red Moroccan woods. The windows in the interior exit/entrance doors from one corridor to another, the windows are about 1 1/2 foot by 6 inches in size. The dark metal doors near the back on the sides also have these windows in the doors so you could see if someone was on the other side and not hit them with the door.
THE ENTRANCE: Outside there are three concrete steps up to the platform in front of the three double doors to enter the Mosque. There is a wheel chair ramp of bricks on either side of the doors leading up to the platfrom where you enter. There is a low wall along the wheel chair ramps with a six inch high tube rail along the top. Picture shows some of this.
There are the pointed doors with glass panels fitted around to form a rectangle. Above the doors and panels are slanted glass ceiling. There are columns in between the doors. Picture shows. When you enter there is a five foot wide vestibule between the outer doors and the inner doors. Same kind of doors. dark metal. The floor inside is bricks with a rubber matt insert for sand on shoes. There are mats in between each set of double doors. There is an indirest semi circle brown metal light fixture on each side wall.
Inside is the large entrance hallway. The tiles are the same as the ones in the back of the Mosque Room. Light brown, maybe a tint of light brown. Bricks are around the edge of the entranceway and corridors and inside the Mosque Area. In the Mosque the tiles curve around the benches toward the side metal doors.
The entranceway is two stories high with a peaked white ceiling. There is a brick wall to the ceiling when you enter on either side. There would be a dark stained wardrobe closet on either side by the brick wall for coats. One for the guys and one for the girls.
Along the top of the wall over the corridor fron the brick wall to the entrance to the Mosque itself are large clear glass window panels and there are also clear glass window panels along the ceiling to the wall of the Mosque. The windows connect at the ceiling. Then the white ceiling goes from the glass roof panels to the peak.
There is a round stain glass window on high on the front wall of the entranceway. This is off white with gold Crescent Moon and Star. Maybe blue. The wall above the inner doors where the round stain glass Crescent and Star is, is brick. There are columns in between the inner doors and there is a brass box in the column for donation for the poor. A box on each of the center columns.
There would be a fairly round table in the center of the entranceway with a Chinese evergreen plant in a off white porcelin flower pot. The entrance way is large, maybe 30 x 30 feet in area. At the end of the brick side walls there is a turn, right or left. There is a eight? foot wall after the turn with a window on each side of the entranceway. The windows are like the outer doors, two rectangle panels, mett and come to a point. The windows are large and there would be some kind of tree or flowering hibiscus here in a brown porcelin pot. The ceiling over these two are is lower, about eight/ten feet (I think) and they are connected to the corridors, right and left which are also eight/ten feet high.
WitchQueen
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I have decided tha Never_Mind can not be the darkAngel or on the ship since he is not enthused about the story. May be he will be from another African Tribe and be a traitor against Prince Aboto.
Maybe DrJames will be the darkAngel and the Prince's spiritual adviser. If we get to do Vanesia, we could see how the DarkAngel got to be the DarkAngel. Fatima_B can be the Fortune Teller with the Tarot Cards in Vanesia. The writings on the stones North of the Chinese Province to Vanesia are Babylonian not Hyroglyphics.
navy64a has a part. He would be the Captain of the GreenPeace ship, the ArticSunrise (We would work the ships out) He could also be one of the Malitia. We would need guys in the Malitias.
Ahmed and Larache4eva will remain the Council Members representing the Moroccan Province. oudja2001 and monsif would be slaves on Argos and also in one of the Malitias