Broke, Bedridden, Eating Chocolate

Hate Mail From Third Graders

laura — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:51:13 +0000

I’d be pissed too if Pluto was my favorite planet.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pluto/mail.html

laura — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:04:46 +0000

I want waffles.

I’m back!

laura — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:59:03 +0000

I was really conflicted about my family trip to the Vancouver Olympics. I really worried that I would have a terrible time. After all, the Olympics involve a lot of facepaint, high-fives, and general hoop-la (sp?) and I am, admittedly, a touch cynical and maybe not always the most open-minded person in the world. this is also, maybe, a little bit of a slight, small, tiny, understatement. but anyways.

There’s one thing I realized as soon as I landed in Vancouver. You have to either drink the Koolaid or else stand aside and watch in horror; there really is no in between. What surprised me was that I didn’t even resist. I really enjoyed it–all of it. The patriotism, the sport-spectating, the Molson Canadian, even the steady stream of Koreans taking paparazzi-shots of me.

These are some of the Olympic mascots. Miga is my favorite:

See!!?? I’m even into mascots. I think the Olympics cured me of my cynicism.

Here is the sound of Vancouver during the gold medal hockey game, when Canada won in OT: (at 1:20)

The cynical me would say this fanaticism is an absurd display of how fickle we all are. But not anymore! There should be more of this! In fact, there is a definitive lack of strangers high-fiving in Montreal.

So now that I’m believing in people and all, I have a new problem…how do I stay relevant to my friends/as an individual if I’m not cynical and see the good in things all the time? have I lost my ‘edge’? will people still like me? what do optimistic people joke about?
Does considering this just cancel everything I’ve said out? Fuck it I guess I’m still cynical.

Day 1:

Criminal Organs.

Lee — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:35:28 +0000

Is Olivia Newton John a Scientologist?

Lee — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:02:36 +0000

Tom Cruise’s L. Ron Hubbard’s Xenu.

Olivia Newton John in Xanadu.

Art Imitating Monsters.

Lee — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:51:38 +0000

Kipling West is cool. I like her monster.

It looks like the monster from Chad vanGaalen’s Molten Light music video.

Or Yubaba from Hayao Miyazaki’s animated film Spirited Away.

You should watch these films and check out this art.

My boyfriend’s aunt was an 80s popstar?!

Lee — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:48:06 +0000

Bloggers are Doin’ it for Themselves

laura — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:25:18 +0000

Style Forecast for Spring

Lee — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:10:16 +0000

Be the pied piper of 2010! I recommend the silver.

When Did I Get So Old.

Lee — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:36:53 +0000

Three reasons YOU should learn to knit:

1. Knitting is the most important meal of the day!

2. Knitting advocates animal testing!

3. Knitting supports science fiction!

For a lot of people, winter calls for streaming illegal television on your laptop while in bed ice skating, hot chocolate and reading by the fire.

For me, winter means whiskey and knitting. Here I am on a crazy friday night!

If you’re still reading this, you secretly want to knit. Don’t you. So… learn the nitty gritty with witty Knitty. Or get a little competitive with Ravelry.

I inherit my love of textiles (actually, clothing) and making stuff from my artisan Mother. She tells me that with ravelry.com “you can find people in your area who knit and get together in cafes/bars to knit on a particular night” (Skype 2010). I am too shy to meet strangers in bars to knit. What if it is all a practical joke: will they pummel me with yarn and laugh at my propensity for dropping stitches?

Listen. We are in the midst of a knitting revival. It is happening all around us! Apparently in bars!! Get on board (not bored.) The knitting in this post is amigurumi (which means knitted stuffed toy in Japanese) that I found on the internet. Proof that knitting is weird, cool, cute and wonderful? And I’m done sounding lame now.