Category: Purple Stories and news
Animated Purple Memes
Well, it’s been about five months since Facebook took away my admin status for the For the Love of Purple fan page. Since then, I’ve been creating new purple memes and sharing them on my Facebook personal wall and here on the blog. I found […]
I’m in a Grape Pickel
Facebook has a new policy of requiring page admins to verify themselves before allowing them to continue to publish to a large audience. Since I have built the For the Love of Purple page to over 9100, late last week Facebook demanded that I prove […]
What’s New in Purple This Year!
The mailing list newsletter is doing well and this year we will be expanding the Grape News and the Grape News Network videos from Grape Stuff, our parent site. There will be more DIY videos, more Purple Product Reviews, and more just plain purple fun […]
Grape Year in Review
Time flies when you’re having purple fun! I never did get around to doing a purple year in review in December so I’m doing it now. We learned a lot of things about purple last year and here is a short recap with links to […]
The Emperor’s Purple Clothes
Once upon a time there lived a cruel Emperor who hated purple. He decreed that anyone found wearing the grape color would be beaten until he was black and blue. For many years, nobody dared to defy the Emperor for fear of the law, until […]
No Grapes?
I was scrolling through some funny pictures looking for Friday Funnies to post on my Art of Eloquence blog when I saw this: What do you make of this? It’s oddly specific and almost incomprehensible. Looks like a garbage bin in which you can […]
Keeper of the Purple Twilight
Hey, purple lovers, did you know that there was an Outer Limits by that name? Keeper of the Purple Twilight was an episode of the original Outer Limits during the second season of the show that aired December 5, 1964 (when I was two). I’ve […]
Grapielocks and the 3 Purple Bears
Once upon a time, there were three purple bears, the Momma Bear, the Papa Bear and little Grapie Bear. One morning they were all set to eat their blueberry porridge when Papa Bear declared, “My blueberry porridge is too hot. Then Momma Bear said, “My […]
The Green Young Man and the Grape Young Lady
Once upon a time, there lived a grape girl who was in her second year of college. She had pledged Sigma Kappa the year before and loved wearing her lavender sorority t-shirts. Her first sorority meeting of the year had a scheduled visit by the […]
Captain Purple
Another grape episode of Captain Purple! Donny Osmond stars as Captain Purple. In this video, our purple hero thwarts a bank robbery…or does he? Have a grape day!