I came home late after a movie last night. Feeling a need to do sewing - I looked for a radio show to stitch along with and found an Ivor Cutler series - so entranced by his sweet weirdness, I gobbled up 3 episodes and made this skirt.
here's a taste of Ivor:
My niece and nephew have arrived for the weekend, the four-year-old insisted on showing me all her jewels before coming into the house while the eight-year-old went to inspect the house, apparently it mostly meets with his approval except that my bedroom 'could do with a tidy-up'
You end up committing yourself to what you are left with Robert Wyatt
I don’t know what I want; I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Gerhard Richter
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be certain of not encountering anything more disgusting in the course of the day. Nicholas de Chamfort
The Path Is No Path: On Not Becoming a Poet
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Bryan Vandyke in The Millions: In my second year of college I applied for a
spot in a creative writing program. If I got in, I could graduate in two
years ...
Turns of Phrase
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Erasmus’ 1512 rhetoric textbook Copia lists 195 variations on the sentence
“Your letter delighted me greatly”: Your brief note refreshed my spirits in
no s...
The jubremony: headghgh.
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Matt at planetmut had a splendid post about newspaper typos back in 2018,
although “typos” is a wan and inadequate term for what he documents. After
a mino...
We the daughters
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*We the **daughters of bountiful deities*
We the daughters of bountiful deities
dangerous girls taken to the underworld
changed into our every her...
Thanksgiving Letter to the Family
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Dear Family, Once again, we will gather for turkey and all the trimmings
this Thanksgiving. Trump remains a pain in my rump, but I have decided to
rise ab...
Listening to Noise
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As decibel levels continue to rise, threatening human existence we turn to
two listening experts for help. George Prochnik and George Foy both
investigat...
Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries
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The show addresses a series of themes including: gravity as “the greatest
designer”, extraterrestrial architecture, deep space mysteries, future body
modif...
Can you die of a broken heart?
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Researchers have looked at what goes on in the brain,
and for lovers and addicts it’s exactly the same.
Those who are newly in love
experience joy in the...
Nice skirt ... and done so quickly! I admire sewing skills. What sewing machine do you use?
ReplyDeletePS: I'm guessing from his observation that this is the "Well, pants" nephew.
I have a tiny electric Singer that used to belong to my grandmother. Yes it is the 'pants' nephew and his cookie-making sister
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