I did a little bit of work on the css for my wordpress knitting blog, I downloaded one of the excellent styles on Alex King’s wordpress styles page and modified all of the images and used different colors. I’d really like to be able to come up with both the structure and css for a […]

You call up your boyfriend to whine about your illness, speculating that you may be dying of diphtheria or consumption, and he proceeds to take a medical dictionary off the shelf and starts reading the symptoms of diphtheria to you.
Librarians have a reference book for any occasion.

I managed to catch a cold to keep me company over Memorial Day Weekend. I feel as if a teeny tiny group of vicious weasels have set up camp in my throat, and are now engaged in a flesh tearing hoe down to the sound of really annoying banjo music.
I’ve been getting some knitting done, […]

Via Boing Boing, a photoshop contest to produce images of superhero day jobs. I’m glad that Plastic Man was included along with all of the Hulk, Spiderman, and Wolverine variants.

Is it bad that even though my birthday is around 3 weeks away, I’ve been doing a little random spending with the “its my birthday present to myself” justification? I’ve bought some more manga recently (2 volumes of Planetes and volume 1 of Tokyo Babylon. I also bought a little bit of yarn. I think […]

A nice way to get news on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials triliogy via del.icio.us, a group of people are saving news items with the tag “hdm.”
Latest news — Chris Weitz of American Pie is going to direct the Tom Stoppard scripted movie adaptation of The Golden Compass. Weitz also co-directed “About a Boy” […]

I find the return of Morrissey weirdly comforting. It’s like something familiar is being resurrected from my childhood. Now I’m feeling bad that I tossed my cd of “The Queen is Dead” off the balcony of the apartment I moved into right after high school (I was experiencing a fit of Morrissey hate). It landed […]

I managed to get wordpress going. I haven’t transferred anything over. I decided to set up a knitting blog, as it was the easiest subcategory of the things that I write about here to spin off into its own area. There will probably be very intermittent blogging going over there, as I am slow with […]

If you are nostalgic for the underoos you might have had as a kid, Target is selling Supergirl pajamas and underwear. Where’s Wonder Woman though?

If you are a young Japanese boy and you wake up all cheerful one day, go to school and afterwards climb a tower to watch the sunset in the late afternoon where you encounter a mysterious and quiet girl with blue hair, there is a good chance you will suddenly be kidnapped by interdimensional robots […]