I would like to thank my enabler, with photos

Darkside Cowl by Saray Fama
Lion Brand Wool-Ease in Grey Heather, size 7 needle.

This is my first cowl. I'm in love. It's soft, warm, pretty, and soft. And warm. I see many cowls in my future.

My enabler? Penny the Penguin Girl. She's made many, many beautiful cowls. Where she leads, I shall follow.


Penny and Kata conspired to make me happy last month by sending me a box of lovelies including a new raspberry Lamy Al-star fountain pen, with turquoise cartridges, tea, and ...

... Teabird's family crest, which Kata carved for me.

And this? Oh, just because.

this is so wrong, and so is that

First things first. Kim did this blog thing, so I had to do it too. (I deleted the graphic in the interest of - well, in the interest of my own lack of enthusiasm for it.)

What's the Recipe for Your Personality?
3 parts flirtation
2 parts magnetism
1 part panache
Splash of glamour
Finish off with whipped cream

I do not flirt, I only use panache on waffles, and I loathe whipped cream. (My husband loves whipped cream but hates radishes. We're a perfect couple. Both of us get the desserts and salads of our dreams.)

So much for the trivial stuff. Deep breath. This is so horrific that - well - I just can. not. bear. it. The movie that has defined my life, the most totemic movie in my entire lifetime - even more so than Fantasia, and that's saying something - is being remade. Has been remade.

I've seen the trailer.

The Day the Earth Stood Still will no longer be known as the film in which aristocratic Michael Rennie and wise Sam Jaffe (Klaatu and Dr. Barnhardt) tell the world that we must eliminate war on our planet or risk destruction by peacekeepers who have channelled their power to eliminate war on theirs.










Nope.
Now, Keanu Reeves will be the alien messenger and John Cleese will play the wise scientist from ...The Ministry of Silly Walks? WHY??

When my husband told me about this on Saturday, I nearly cried. Remakes. BAH. Can't Hollywood leave well enough alone already? Is Hollywood going to conjure up remake after remake after remake until....