csa update
actual knitting content + a surprise

many things make a post

* 'llectuals, a new show on the PBS aka The Peeb.

* Ann Patchett on book tours in The Atlantic. She nails books, tours and writing with her usual understated humor and grace.  I would happily shill my work like the Fuller Brush man, too, if I didn't think it would get me arrested.

* This pattern for a woolly Gnome and Mushroom is almost enough to make me take up felting. Almost.

* The mad minds at Muppet labs have been making a stealth attack on You Tube.

* Speaking of the YouTube, this trailer for Handmade Nation  convinces me that the next great Spinal Tap-ish film will be about the indie craft scene, which is slowly becoming a parody of itself. How many white women of a certain age with similar no-style hairstyles can you interview before it starts to become clear that the way you happen to see this movement is just as limited as the "only grannies craft" idea that you are trying to subvert?

* I find these conceptual knitting patterns absolutely charming.

* Patrick Nielsen Hayden runs the numbers on a problem facing the SF/F community. As one in the demo about which he speaks, I find this hard data both comforting and disturbing.

* The only writing hack you'll ever need. (Stolen from Yarn-a-go-go, who just got herself an agent (congrats!))

Comments

Thanks for your review of Handmade Nation. I'd noticed but was to lazy to put it into words.

I want to see that mockumentary. Oh yes I do.

::gnash:: Either I'm just getting more fully in touch with my inner curmudgeon as I age or I've just run out of patience with poseurs, but yes. I'm getting mighty tired of listening to people claim to subvert the dominant paradigm while doing the same things we've been doing for hundreds of years but now it's all cool and edgy because hipsters are doing it! With skull motifs! I love the propogation of technical expertise but I so don't get the dissing of those who came before you. What's wrong with respecting the entire continuum of crafters?

Thanks for the linkage, and thanks for reminding me to go check YOUR book, which has now been kindleized into my device. Hooray!

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