Month: October 2005
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It’s been a rough couple of days at Tapestry Craft. Mr. Laurie Morris, founder, friend, and father figure to many of us, has passed away. Laurie opened the shop with his wife Ruth nearly thirty years ago and, though his sons run it now, he still liked to pop in and visit. I first met…
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I added 199 more tapestries to the shop’s website yesterday, including my most favorite one of all: Topless Centaurs on Mars. I’m not joking. Be sure and view the large size; it’s hilariously bad. The Snook’s grandmother was bugging us a while ago to pick out a tapestry so she could stitch it for us,…
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Whoa! The food blogger I’ve been reading for the past six months is a girl! For some reason, I just always thought she was a guy. Here I am craning my neck in every restaurant in the Inner West looking for a tubby guy with a camera, when I’ve probably passed this innocuous-looking Asian chick…
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Dear Other K. Howards in the world…Please learn to type your damn e-mail address. I’m stick of my Yahoo Mail account filling up with spam from Classmates.com for Katherine and Ancestry.com for Keith.
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After Serenity…Me: “Hey, he didn’t wear the hat!”Snook: “What hat?”Me: “I don’t know. All these Firefly fans are knitting crazy yellow and orange hats with pompoms, and I think the big Jayne guy was supposed to wear one. But he didn’t.” So, “Browncoats,” what was up with that? I loved the movie, by the way,…
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So… last night was The Night. The Night We Went to Tetsuya’s. Amy had made the reservation months ago and by the time it rolled around all four of us (me, Snookums, Amy, and Rob) were pretty keyed up with anticipation. The Snook and I had a late breakfast and then didn’t eat anything else…
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One of the Snook’s and my favorite Australian musicians, Paul Kelly, recently gave a one-hour interview to ABC Queensland. You can download the whole thing as an MP3 and apparently he performs four live songs on it. (I’m still downloading it at the moment.)
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Good grief, how did we miss THIS? Lex, Big Tom, and Jerri from Survivor are all in town for “TribalCon” this weekend! Now I’m having fun envisioning all the great ways I would mock Lex in person for his non-righteous indignation over the way he was played by Boston Rob.
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WOOHOO!I just got in from a nice lazy Saturday morning with the Snook to find about seventeen hysterical messages from Amy. Remember that Knitty Calendar Contest we entered a couple months ago? Well, we just got an e-mail from Amy Singer saying that one of our photos was selected! (We’re not allowed to tell you…
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Oh my God. I just saw an ad on the ABC for Operatunity Oz. They’re doing the “Opera Idol” thing here! Note to self: Ask Joseph if you can borrow his video camera, because DUDE, I am SO AUDITIONING for this! (Don’t get me wrong. I can’t sing. I just think it would be awesome…