How badly do I want this uppercase scarf? Pretty badly, I tell you. The scarf led me on a typographic journey of the net which yielded new interesting sites: the & Blog, Bembo’s Zoo which is seriously cool, FontStruct which lets you design your own (very basic) typefaces, and, er, The Swedish Furniture Name Generator.
Hey, [...]
Just sneaking this one in: the teaser trailer for Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. And if you are thinking Bzuh?! (which is admittedly very likely), here’s an explanation:
During the WGA strike ['Buffy' and 'Firefly' creator] Joss Whedon started writing a three part musical series for the internet. Each of the three episodes will be approximately ten [...]
Faber and Faber is sending me a proof copy of Andrew Sean Greer’s new novel, The Story of a Marriage. Greer’s The Confessions of Max Tivoli was excellent and I’m looking forward to see how his new novel compares.
Thank you, F&F. I hope this is the start of a beautiful friendship between TS Eliot’s [...]
This is really nifty: The Timeline of Fictional And Fictional Future Events.
1609: A vampire known as the Master converts a young woman dying of syphilis to fellow vampire Darla. The conversion reportedly took place in the Colony and Dominion of Virginia which at the time only included Jamestown
1620: Norville “Shaggy” Rogers’ and Scooby-Doo’s ancestors, McBaggy [...]
I’m hand-dyeing yarn right now.
Edit:
Modus Operanti:
First, I soaked a hank of merino laceweight yarn for about forty minutes in lukewarm water. While it was soaking, I mixed green food dye with a touch of blue food dye into about two pints of water. I added citric acid as a fixing agent. I heated up the [...]
Don’t you just love lists? I do.
+ Mattel has made The Birds Barbie. It’s brilliant. (thank you Darth Ken)
+ Wordle is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It even makes Spandau Ballet seem cool.
+ I have finally found a food item that I simply cannot abide.
The falooda we bought at today’s Glasgow Mela [...]
Yesterday I had to convince nurses that my name wasn’t Flora Westmark of [absurdly named Glasgow suburb]. It wasn’t until I pointed out that Flora’s patient file stated she was born in 1949 whilst I clearly was not that they went in search of my file. Oh, you wacky NHS with your strange disorganisation - [...]
A quick little plea from the heart before I find my anti-histamine pills (as close as I get to sleeping pills) and drown them with decaf tea:
Please do not text me before 11am UK time.
I really need my sleep these days and it’s so difficult to come by.
I find it unusually difficult to fall asleep [...]
Today is World Wide Knitting In Public Day. That means I’ll be bringing my needles and wool to the F.O.R.K. Gala (as well as a rug and a book and my patient Other Half). Meanwhile, The G delivers a deliberately misguided attack on crafters. I’m slightly disappointed.
I’ve been reading up on D&D 4.0 and so [...]
The other day we went for a stroll along the river and saw a ghostly tree. It stood out like a sore thumb around the rich, green foliage: it was completely white with no leaves.
We walked closer trying to find out what it was: was it an art statement or maybe an act of vandalism? [...]
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