I found a new site devoted to pictures of Mick Jagger (with an awesome URL)–what better thing to share on a Thursday?
You’re welcome.
I found a new site devoted to pictures of Mick Jagger (with an awesome URL)–what better thing to share on a Thursday?
You’re welcome.
I just learned two more pangrams (sentences that contain all the letters of the alphabet) in addition to “The quick brown fox” and thought I’d share:
1. Viewing quizzical abstracts mixed up hefty jocks.
2. Back in my quaint garden jaunty zinnias vie with flaunting phlox.
Now you can impress your friends while trying out different typewriters.
I know that we will have a few more snow storms before the weather really starts getting warm, but the equinox is Saturday, and I don’t think I will have sleeves and button bands by then.
Oh, well–as my mother said when I complained that this sweater seemed like it was taking forever, “It seems like thin yarn.”
Yesterday morning the Liberty of London for Target merchandise hit stores, and now I understand the mentality that leads to stampedes for discount DVD players. Fortunately, it was a Sunday in Utah so no one was rioting for floral-printed home goods, but I ended up going to four different Targets anyway. My friend Kara and I were on the phone comparing selections between Targets: “I’m at Jordan Landing and they have candles and stationery!” “Centerville has a lot of dresses!”
Yes, driving miles and miles in a car, to get stuff made in China, that I don’t really need but was heavily hyped and marketed*…yay, America!
*I am happy with what I bought, though. And I appreciate some good hyping; I work in advertising. Besides, I focused mostly on home stuff like a teapot and dishes. So very practical!
1. Sherlock Holmes was watched successfully last and and it was delightful–definitely worth the wait(s). The story was more faithful than I could have hoped, with actual lines of dialogue lifted straight from the books, and even though they made Irene Adler his girlfriend (and dressed her up like a romanticized prostitute from the Wild West*), most of the Holmes adaptations do that. Besides, I have the BBC for more accurate costume dramas–this one combined my literary crush and my actor crush. Enough said.
2. *Irene Adler was a lady marrying nobility in the one story in which she appears. I don’t think she would have chosen fuchsia satin.
3. Happy birthday, Jack Kerouac!
My work friend and I are going to try one last time to see Sherlock Holmes in a theater tonight, so wish us luck.
And since I’m talking about movies, check out the gallery of movie posters “if they were honest.” I really love the one for UP:
Even though I am still slowly knitting my way through the not-so-elaborate cabled sweater, it was too bulky to take with me on a carry-on to the beach. So I started a new project, also very popular in the knitting world–a short sleeve cardigan from a free pattern here.
I’m using the yarn I got in the fall to make a different sweater that I just got too bored with (it was a spring color anyway). So I unraveled what I had done and started again and got about six inches of the new pattern knit over the weekend.
Ultimately, it will look something like this:
I’m back from the beach and, while it was a little chilly and I was fighting a head cold, it was nice to be by the ocean.
It was especially nice to hear it at night. One of my favorite chapters of The Gastronomical Me describes MFK Fisher’s visit to the coast of Mexico, and she has this to say about the ocean:
“I slept like a cat all night, dreaming good dreams in my well-being, but hearing the waves when I wanted to through the dreams.”
(I brought some vacation knitting, so I’ll put up a Project Roundup tomorrow.)
Jackie Kennedy and the Taj Mahal:
And closer:
Found via Life again, from her trip to India in 1962. Lots of great pinks in that set.
1. Monday was Holi, a holiday I knew nothing about. According to Wikipedia, “Holi, or Holli, also called the Festival of Colors, is a spring festival celebrated by Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and others.” I like spring and colors. Read more here.
2. The slideshow name says it all (and the captions are funny): A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things