Wind is a blowin’

It’s blowing like a mother outside, here at the shop. I’ve heard that our home town is experiencing a few power outages, along with the town where Rosie attends college. I can’t get a hold of her. She did email me to give her call because her cell isn’t working correctly, but [...]

Would the Dept. of HS follow you into the dark?

Someone at Homeland Security must be a huge Death Cab for Cutie fan: hardrive seized at the Peace Arch border crossing.

Let’s Yak About Art: get the creative sap circulating

NaNoWriMo, the yearly Write-A-Book-In-A-Month exercise begins November 1st. Last year 79.000 writers participated and it’s been heavily promoted around the blogosphere.
It turns out that The Queen of All Writing Exercises has a few arty sisters:

DrawMo!, which I found courtesy of India, Ink.. The rules are, as follows: Draw. Yes, draw, and draw [...]

So…. what do you think?

I’ve been looking for a change; the theme I’d been using was difficult for some of my readers to read. I’ve resisted changing, however, because I adore the custom header layout of Chaotic Soul. So…. what do you think? Is this theme a good compromise of readability, with a custom header layout I [...]

Boo on you, Fox

B.W. brought this issue up at Montag: Fox legal eagles pull plug on Buffy sing along events. Didn’t matter that the organizer had sought, and received, permission from Criterion, the theatrical distributor of Fox’s old shows (i.e. back catalog).
Maybe Buffy fans need to embrace the speakeasy culture and stage their audience participation viewing [...]

And so the dog itches

I feel really bad for the doggie kingdom right now. This post is the most popular post on my blog at the moment, being accessed 64 times over the last 30 days. It appears that most of the people who looked at the post accessed it through a search engine. Poor [...]

Blech

Last week, Mark, over at South Puget Sound Libertarian, posted an update of the case Khaled el-Masri “against former CIA Director George Tenet, three private aviation companies and 20 unnamed employees of the CIA and the companies.”
It appears that the Supremes don’t feel it’s unconstitutional pluck someone off the street, drag him unwilling to another [...]

I haven’t lost son, I’ve gained a cook

I think I’m enjoying Tee’s cooking class more than he is. Every Sunday I can count on him cooking something yummy and he’s totally welcome to my suggestions for dishes to try. Plus, he’s trying many foods he wasn’t keen on before when I’ve cooked them. Tonight, he made a Spaghetti Squash [...]

Knitting Niftiness in the sidebar

I’ve added links to some webby knitting places I frequent. If you have any suggestions of places to add, please let me know by leaving a comment.
I met a local group of knitters today, and they are the neatest people! I learned several new things today, got to feel some succulent baby alpaca yarn [...]

I dub thee Kick-Ass Thinking Blogger

Sunni, over at Sunni and the Conspirators, tapped me for a Thinking Blogger award in June. Her selection amazes me; it’s a huge honor and I don’t feel worthy of it. She can write circles (and squares and parallelograms) around me, in the most provocative and mind-stretching ways.
I’ve spent the summer [...]