Archive for October 2008

Blue Is The Colour

By on October 3, 2008

This is highly amusing. It is an edited transcript of Newcastle football club interim manager Joe Kinnear’s first official press conference yesterday:

JK: Which one is Simon Bird [Daily Mirror's north-east football writer]?

SB: Me.

JK: You’re a c*nt.

SB: Thank you.

JK: Which one is Hickman [Niall, football writer for the Express]? You are out of order. Absolutely f*cking out of order. If you do it again, I am telling you you can f*ck off and go to another ground. I will not come and stand for that f*cking crap. No f*cking way, lies. F*ck, you’re saying I turned up and they [Newcastle's players] f*cked off.

And the press conference just gets better and better from there. Thank you, Live-In Boyfriend, for pointing this one out. It’s hysterical.

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Matryoshka Buttons

By on October 3, 2008

Made by greenjelly. Man, I love Etsy

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The Decision

By on October 2, 2008

This is how my head works: I am about to make a decision which I actually made ages ago, finally decided upon some time ago, and took the first steps towards admitting to myself a few weeks back. So this decision which has been made and re-made half a dozen times is now finally about to be made-made and will be aired to unsuspecting parties tomorrow. And that action will seal this decision of mine and hopefully lead to some very good other decisions down the line.

Here’s The Young Knives with The Decision. Lovely spiky new-new wave.

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St. James

By on October 1, 2008

My days are currently packed full of work and sleep. Seriously. Luckily I can also fit in my obsessive knitting as I have a three-hour commute. What you see on the left is the result of the past ten days.

The pattern is St. James from the current issue of MetaPostmodernKnitting. The pattern has a tied bow at the neck but I have a strange aversion to bows, so the top is adorned by a cluster of crocheted flowers instead. The end result is really quite stunning and very vintage-ish. I have enough alpaca-silk yarn left for a dainty shrug/cardigan, so I’m going to look out for a 50s inspired little pattern that would complement St. James. Oh dear, I’m going end up with a twin-set.

PS. can you spot our Fourth Edition sign in the background? It’s juust peeking out. Yes, we are sad, typography-obsessed nerds in this household.

PPS. Comments are very much appreciated but I cannot get back to anyone before the end of this crazy week, sorry. You know I luvs y’all, don’t you?

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