Okay - so if you don’t, here’s the deal: Joss Whedon (pause for that angelic choir going "waaaaa!" in the background*) apparently decided he couldn’t stand to not be creative during the writer’s strike.  So he did what any normal person in that situation would do.  He wrote a three-episode, 45-minute miniseries specifically for [...]

More of "Simon’s Cat"!

It was Mark who first told me about Oobleck (non-Newtonian fluid made out of cornstarch and water).  I’ve had a vague desire to play with it ever since (and since that was at least 20 years ago, it’s a pretty freakin’ vague desire.  I think if I was that interested in playing with the stuff, [...]

…Making Light posts a link to the YouTube Video of The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain doing one of my all time favorite power-pop songs, Life on Mars*:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxCj2MO02AE

I rather love this - especially since the first singer bears a passing resemblance to John Simm.  It’s also clever in that glee-club/harmony/deadpan way when they start to [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTQwP2gFxU

Take two utterly insane things, mash them up, and you have Wookies dancing.

I promised Robynn photos of the blob, so here they be:
Blob - wide-shot:

Blob - closeup of final motif:

Extra bonus knitting content - a sock for John, cobbled together with ideas from Cat Bordhi’s latest fever-dream, er, book :

(I really like that heel, and this was my first foray into linen stitch, which [...]

"She told it to me, and… like Genghis Khan or Alexander the Great, I occupied it.  It was real estate that I wanted to be part of so I just marched in and became part of it."

Remember “Wake Up Cat“?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rb8aOzy9t4

Yeah.

Fear not - this isn’t going to be one of those posts that wafts about the idea of whether knitting is an “art” or a “craft” and what that particular semantic exercise means in terms of intrinsic or perceived value of the pursuit or of the finished object, the role of gender differential in determination of worth, [...]

Hi. I’m back. I was away for about a week (last post was dateline: San Francisco, even though I didn’t mention that).
In my travels, I seem to have picked up a very small gremlin who is industriously smashing my sinuses with a brick.  Also, I got home last night - no, this morning [...]