• Ozbus

    Me: Dude! The next time we’re in London, we should take the bus home.
    Snook: A bus trip through Afghanistan sounds like a barrel of laughs.


  • Way to go, Brian!

    Remember how my friend Holli’s husband was running an ultra-marathon (50 miles!) to raise money for lupus? Well, HE DID IT! Congratulations, Brian! I can’t even imagine how tired he must feel today. If you’re a slack-ass like me and you forgot to donate, you can still contribute. (He’s really close to reaching his funding goal.)


  • Russell Crowe SUCKS

    MUCK FICHIGAN
    Me: *GASP!* You are DEAD to me, Russell Crowe!
    Snook: What’d he do?
    Me: He gave a pep talk to Michigan before the damn game! He’s all buddies with their damn coach!
    Snook: You should write him an indignant letter, and point out that there’s a Notre Dame campus about 500 meters from the bloody South Sydney Leagues Club!
    Me: Too right.


  • Sock Knitter Advice!

    Hey Sock Knitters: Advice Please!
    I’m currently working on these Vinnland socks and I’m having a bit of a problem. They’re knitted toe-up, and so far the toes look disproportionately roomy on my foot. I’m using a 2.75mm needle (bigger than the pattern because I’m such a tight knitter) but I’m still getting a tighter gauge. I think the issue is my actual food. I have quite a slender foot with a high arch, so I’m aiming for a 10″ foot circumference. That means I’ve got lots of extra room down near my pointy toes. I don’t really want to knit a smaller size, as that might make it difficult to pull them over my ankles (once I actually get that far). So I figure the options are either to reknit the toes with less stitches and then somehow work in some increases as I go up the foot, or possibly to reknit the toe in a smaller needle and then get larger as I go. Or, of course, there’s always the option to just leave them as is. They’ll probably felt up a bit at the toe from wear anyway, right?


  • Nicky Epstein

    Thanks to everybody who came to the Nicky Epstein event at the shop on Friday. It was a huge success! We had nearly thirty people (including an actual fella) and everyone seemed to have a great time. Nicky and her husband Howard are just the loveliest people, and they stayed for hours til the last person had been hugged and the last book had been signed. I love it when a plan comes togther!


  • Hairspray

    Hairspray
    I talked the Snook into going with me this afternoon to see Hairspray… and I absolutely LOVED it. Loved everything. The music, the costumes, the joy. I love love LOVE Nikki Blonsky, and when she got to kiss dreamy Zac Efron at the end I squealed to the Snook (forgetting momentarily that he was not, in fact, an enthusiastic girlfriend): “And she was working at an ice cream parlor when she got the part! Isn’t that the cutest thing EVER?!” I had been expecting to merely tolerate John Travolta’s stunt-casting, but he was fantastic. I can honestly say this is the only Travolta performance I have ever enjoyed. He just disappeared completely into the role, and I can only imagine how difficult it was to dance in that (amazingly realistic) fat suit. I even loved perky little Amanda Bynes, though she did seem to get progressively more orange throughout the movie. (The Snook speculated that it was to lessen the contrast between her and Seaweed.) I bought the album off iTunes as soon as I got home and I imagine I’ll be boppin’ along to that for a while now. If you like musicals, this one is highly recommended.

    (And if you don’t, go anyway. You’ll survive. The Snook didn’t love it, but he didn’t fall asleep either.)


  • Max Rocks

    My friend Nora‘s cousin Max recently performed performed as Napoleon Dynamite at some sort of assembly… and now it’s on YouTube. And it rocks! I love how you can see him really start to get into it towards the end. That is a level of coolness to which I could only have aspired in high school.


  • Name That Color

    Name That Color. Now that is a phenomenally useful app! Especially to someone like me, who is constantly trying to come up with descriptive names for colours of knitting yarn. (Link courtesy of Patrick.)


  • Pierre is a BOY?

    I was pleased to see that our very own Pierre the Yarn Snob got name-checked at the end of this Knitty article on depression… until I realised that the author referred to Meg as a guy! Quelle faux pas!


  • Knitty!

    New Knitty is up!

    Updated to add: Oddly, I liked most of the cardigans and hats and disliked most of the socks. That’s weird. I really dig this yoke sweater, and this little bag is so cute. I also think I could wear this funny hat, though I prefer it in the non-slubby yarn. There are a few things that make me scratch my head though. This seems like a prop in a future Darwin Award story. It’s a total strangulation waiting to happen. These, I’m sorry to say, are some of the ugliest socks I’ve ever seen. And the Woodins? Are simply mystifying. Though that’s not necessarily a bad thing.



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