I think we should start keeping track of this kind of unnatural docility in people who’ve been screwed over by Sarah Palin. I think they’re afraid of her.
The unnatural docility of her screwees reminds me forcibly of Harry Whittington apologizing for being in Dick Cheney's line of fire.
Clifton Royston @ 45 - It may be even worse. If they're writing this one off, then they also get to say, "See? Woman on ticket = kiss of death. Don't do that again."
"Wikipedia says..."
"Well, that's exactly what I would expect to hear from [vilified group]."
Checking in after a long hiatus with a brief PSA:
If you appreciated Jacob Clifton's recaps of Seasons 1 and 2 of Dr. Who on Television Without Pity and are wondering where they went, well, TWoP put them on "Permanent Hiatus" with little explanation on July 3.
I joined a group that is asking TWoP to reverse this decision - it's a LiveJournal affair at The Oncoming Recaps. Please consider joining if you are a fan of Jacob's work on Seasons 1 and 2.
#151 and 152, or to paraphrase Paul Reiser in a Mad About You episode, "It's naked, it's fun, I agree with both of them."
You probably don’t have spare furoshiki lying around, so use a square scarf, or a bandana if the package is small, or an inherited bridge cloth you’ve never particularly liked.
Or if you run across a batch of inexpensive (or on-sale) kitchen towels (I prefer the all-cotton kind, truly absorbent and with nothing painted on them to disrupt absorbency), purchase them and keep on hand as useful gift wrap.
#52 Serge -
airport security seems to assume that terrorists will use variations of the original trick.
That, combined with the lack of critical thinking on the traveling public's part, seems to be the problem overall (speaking of failure of imagination).
I travel a lot for my job, and have witnessed all manner of behavior towards my knitting. Most recently, I was talking with a flight attendant whom I had met several times on previous trips (she mans the shuttle that does the DC-NY-Boston triangle). She was a lapsed knitter who got re-excited about knitting when she saw my work several months ago, and we periodically catch up when we're on the same flight. After she moved off after an obviously friendly, chatty conversation (where my flight attendant friend had pulled her colleague in to admire my latest project), the woman across the aisle from me scolded, "I can't BELIEVE they let you take those on an airplane." It was quite the contrast.
Serge, some knitting implements are long and sharp, some are short and dull, some could (with some effort) be used as a garrote.
When people who look at the size 1 US needles I use to knit socks on airplanes and comment on their "sharpness," (they're not particularly sharp, just narrow overall) I pull out my mechanical pencil (much, much sharper).
I adore Franklin. I gave my mother one of his "Marge began to wonder..." tote bags last year. She just about fell over laughing (especially since we now have one of those strange mother-daughter dynamics, where she used to be the more experienced knitter and now I am, so she calls me with questions).
He is a true gentleman in personal correspondence as well. I e-mailed him with questions prior to recording my first Cast-On essay, and he went over and above the call of duty, not only in answering my questions, but also in providing other bits of podcast-essay wisdom he had gleaned in the course of recording his essays.
Thanks Jim. I had a nasty run-in with heat exhaustion a couple of years ago at a baseball game. Luckily we were at a modern stadium with a/c in the concourses and I have a husband who knows that ashen and disoriented is a very worrying way for his normally ruddy-cheeked, sharply opinionated wife to be.
As a corollary, the family friend who taught me to ski impressed upon me very firmly that the time to stop skiing is at the point you think you have "one last run" in you. By that point, you're tired and prone to injury. It is also likely that the sun is going down and the mountain is getting colder and the ski patrol is going to find you harder to see.
This looked like a potentially appropriate site for the season.
I personally especially like Rabbit 1.
nerdycellist: People keep touting the benfits of excercize - it helps in losing weight, they say. Well, if I can't find a sports bra that's not just a glorified ace bandage in my size, I can't really work out without endangering myself and others. Carry some useful athletic clothing in all sizes!
Try Title Nine Sports or Athleta. They both are women's sport retailers and have a fantastic selection of bras that are not the glorified ace bandage in lots of sizes. There's one Title Nine sports bra that I like so much I wear it as an everyday bra.
... which also has the advantage of having originally been a house.
There is that, as well.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner: it is both grand and jewel-box-like, full of art and memorabilia and furniture, active with lectures and concerts, and finished with the icing of a sublime courtyard garden.
Hello all -
Long time no visit. New job, long story, but - hey! I have a job! (I'll also be at Capclave next weekend, so hope to see a few familar faces).
I have a query that is possibly worthy of Making Light. Does anyone here speak Polish? It seems that a Polish Star Trek discussion board has linked to a brief* essay I did on my blog about gender and science fiction.
*Looking at it again, it is almost certainly too brief for the subject.
NPR covered the story this morning.
Marilee - I've seen those on British gardening shows and thought they looked incredibly useful. Was just bemoaning the lack of them (at least that I had seen) in any gardening or big-box outlet.
It just goes to show that a link to them would appear on ML.
MKK - I thought they looked a bit like giant Queen Anne's Lace, myself.
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