Ars Gratia Artis

Kiernan and his bow. He’s having a lot of fun with it. Unfortunately for me, I did something to my wrist and there is much swelling and ow-ness. Frak.
And I am tired. Words can not encompass the depth and breadth of le tired. I’m looking around at all the things I could be doing and [...]

Elizabeth LaPrelle is an Appalachian angel. Oh. My. God.
I have always loved folk music, and have especial preferences for Creole and mountain music. So much of the folk music that’s popular right now is kind of a commercialized “Celtic” sound, but Elizabeth sounds like she descended straight from the the Blue Ridge circa 1920. [...]

From The New York Times obituary:
Although some criticized parts of his later work as too contentious, Mr. Carlin defended the material, insisting that his comedy had always been driven by an intolerance for the shortcomings of humanity and society. “Scratch any cynic,” he said, “and you’ll find a disappointed idealist.”

Hello, Adventurer! Steve M and everything!

Knitted bag # 4. There are a couple of other pictures on Flickr, if you want to see them. So that’s the 4th bag I’ve finished (I didn’t write about the 3rd, sparing you one bag report ).This one is knit in the round for the pitcher I commissioned from Hroar ever so [...]

for Price
All is dross without thy gold
And deep in silent grave
Rest you now in darkened cold
No longer sorrow’s slave.
Once you wore proud armor
Now you wear plain shroud
And, we, behind, in lost dolor
Keen mournful and cry foul.
For we are lost without thy voice
To call us forward fair
And what are we without thy love
But creatures of [...]

Dear George W. Bush,
I received my loan against my 2009 tax return, that thing that the media keeps calling the “economic stimulus.”
I put it in my bank account. It’s been sitting there.
Today, however, I decided it would be better to invest a little of it. It’s supposed to be stimulating the economy, right?
So [...]

How I love my Projectland.

Finished another knit bag for the feast gear. This was knitted in the round, one skien of an acrylic yarn. I didn’t knit this very well, but, it’s better than the first thing I knitted, and after being washed, some of the issues were resolved. I found knitting in the round [...]