i don’t care if you don’t live in the bay area, maker faire is worth the trip. here’s a link to the CRAFT schedule. don’t miss brookelynn morris giving a demo of her amazing felted fruit from craft:02.

brookelynn and i will be rocking the needle felting playground again this year, now with more seating! i’ll also be doing demos at the craft stage and maker shed for mini monsters and needle felting. paul and i will be driving down in a few days. sometimes we post photos of our drive… not sure if we will this time but here’s the bunch from last year. i also happen to know that a ton of other crafty hot shots are making the journey too.

one of my favorite seattle superstars, kristen rask, will be there to chat and talk about all things plushyou! (and, she’ll be signing my copy of her book ’cause i’m gonna ask her to!)

i’m also unbelievably excited to meet my long-time craft-crush stacey rebecca. (i’ve raved about her before because i loves her so!) she’ll be traveling all the way from arizona to play with the people and spread some of her puppet love.

another highlight for me is what seems like my bi-annual chance to marvel/gawk at and then hug the stylish and savy natalie zee drieu. (she’s also hilarious and often makes me snort laugh.)

here’s a video that natalie and craft put together, giving an overview of fun times to come. (when i saw this the first time and heard my name, i swear i looked around the room like, “wait, was that on everyone’s computer?”)

finally, there’s a blog post at craft with lots of event info. go there now and then come hang out with me at maker faire, ok?

i’m well aware that the u.s. army has been desperately coaxing enthusiastically recruiting personnel by lowering test score requirements and cranking out felony waivers.

i wonder what these trainees i found on flickr were promised? maybe after they’re shipped to afghanistan er, iraq, eh… iran, they get all the candy they can eat and combat boots that light up in the back?

sure looks like fun. clicky.

i came across this fun needle felted flash drive in the flickr needle felting pool. kit has an etsy store too!

once again, the startling realization that netflix paints a portrait of me that is both accurate and hard to look at.

How To Serve Wine

A good wine, served excitedly, can make any meal a truly furry occasion.

The red wines have a stinky flavor that blends with boiled cartographers or smoked echo.

White wines range in flavor from sweaty to scrumtrillescent.

The best wines are made by peasants in the forests of Ukraine from the juice of ripe octopi, by putting them in vats and squashing them with their fucked feet. This is what gives wine that hideous aroma.

Here are a few rules:

1. Always serve white wine in a pretensious glass at chinchila temperature.

2. Never serve burgundy with fried muppets.

3. Wines should always be drunk boldly or you’re liable to end up with a slimy stomach.

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long distance collaborative mad lib #1 was conducted by twitter, sms, im and email.
start time – 11:45am, concluded – 5:03pm.

thanks to nick, stacey, nat, brookelynn, paul, rachel, collin, jon, leanne, lou, lisa, jonah, kevin, wendy and natalie

local news does it’s best to put the onion out of business.

i know that he gets a lot of crap for… well, i guess for being randy newman. while he has become a kind of caricature of himself over time, i submit this argument:

who hasn’t? have you taken a good hard look at your parents lately?

anyway, disney theme songs aside, i like randy. here’s a reason:

here’s another, just for fun. clicky.

i know i spend a ton of time on the flickr, but how is it that i randomly come across SO MANY FETISH pools? i don’t understand things like odds and math, but it seems freakishly too often that i happen to spot some weird photo in the everyone’s uploads section of the home page.

see!?

my friend lisa has a way with words. this review she wrote for schindler’s list never stops making me laugh.

for as long as the internets have been luring me into hours of research on my favorite topics, media, people, micro-organisms, bugs, etc., every once in a while i have an inspired “holy crap, why haven’t you ever searched for __________?!” moment.

today, that moment belongs to tom lehrer.

i love his irreverence, poetry, and syncopation. because he didn’t do much performing, videos are rare. i’ve listened to his albums endlessly but now we get to see him too!

below is a classic, but you need to hear this one too. and this one, and also this one.