So, I’ve been knitting for a few weeks now, and done quite a lot of scarfage—two simple garter stitch ones, one for me and one (incomplete, currently) for Rhonda. The latter, which is done with huge Burly Spun yarn, has been dubbed the “Big Black Butch Scarf.” Also another Burly Spun in horrible green for [...]

I took a look, more or less by accident, at the new show Heist last night. It wasn’t painful, or anything, but it was almost mind-numbingly conventional. I shan’t feel bad about not watching it—unlike The Unit, which looks, if not like a show that would likely go on to be one of my [...]

I’m still going on the scarves. I had to pause with Rhonda’s big black butch scarf, because while there’s a lot of yardage in a hank of Brown Sheep Burly Spun, a lot of yardage goes into a wide garter-stitch scarf. However, what with an Article Pract sale coming up, I should be able to [...]

I went dark for a few days there, owing to an entertaining array of health difficulties—high points including coming in to the hospital at 9:35 Sunday, getting sent home with a clean bill and totally normal stats, then getting ordered backed to the ER after I called in to mention a spontaneous fever and difficulty [...]

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Just saw V for Vendetta. I was favorably impressed, though I wasn’t terribly surprised or impressed by the content—it was basically what I assumed it would be based on the trailer, etc. This is as opposed to something like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which was a total surprise—however, as I expected it to be [...]

I’ve recently acquired two books from my big “Gang of Virtue” reading list, the Gigantafuckingnormous Correspondence 1926-1969 of Jaspers and Weil (courtesy of Andrew, who clearly deserves better than I’ve given him in the way of mail (basically, a cd verison of my Fluble archive), and Althusser’s autobiography, The Future Lasts Frover.

“Gang of Virtue” is [...]

We went to Article Pract last night, and I dropped a quantity of cash which I shall avoid specifying. I got two skeins of Brown Sheep “Burly Spun” super-fucking-huge yarn, one in black (BS-05/Lot 032) for Rhonda (as a butch, Rhonda needs a masculine color scheme), and one in highly disturbing neon green for [...]