Kitten Knitting Blues
This episode finds me halfway through 1Q84 as I compare it to Leverage, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Stranger than Fiction, then freezing in New York City this past weekend where I found true (fiber) love at Vogue Knitting Live! I found my true love at Stitchuary and purchased some lovely wool at Green Mountain Spinnery. YarnPop‘s project bags are on my list of items to order once my bank account recovers, and Long Island Livestock Company‘s alpaca covered soap may be an inspiration for a collaborative effort between myself and Michele at Funkychunks. Knittingpodcast.blogspot.com kindly linked to my podcast, and you can find an extensive list of both audio and video podcasts on that site. Also a shout out to Green Triangle Girl over at the...
Vogue Knitting Live (Part 1)
Those of you who know me in real life know that 2012 is shaping up to be an exceptional year. I’ll share more about various opportunities as they’re finalized, but one of the best experiences thus far happened this past weekend. I attended Vogue Knitting Live; I shopped the marketplace (boy, did I shop that marketplace!) and took a spinning class for beginners (the kind with a spindle not a stationary bike). Heading back on the train, I realized that I learned and discovered so much in such a short period of time that it may take the rest of the year to process and appreciate everything I took in. This blog post contains my initial reactions and recollections, but I will add to and expand upon what I saw, learned and did in the next podcast...
From Bullying to Broadcasting
I’ve written a number of posts about various aspects of bullying. Many children, teenagers, and even adults are bullied in their daily life, and few find something positive out of such a negative experience. One of my former students, Ian Elliott, is one of those people. Bullied as a child, he came to the school where I teach as a freshman and flourished. He’s now a student at Montclair University here in New Jersey. Over the holiday, he created a video that documented his experience for Carpe Diem, a show produced by the Department of Broadcasting at Montclair. I wish I could say I taught him any of the skills he uses in this piece – he did learn a lot at our school – but I can say that I was his “daytime mom” for...
Birthday Podcast
In this episode, I celebrate my birthday by attempting to make a vegan version of lulu paste, share my top 5 favorite reads in 2011 as well as an excerpt from 1Q84 (while not explicit, definitely a book for adults) that was a gift from my daughter & my current read, hope to start a conceptual knit-a-long with the sky scarf on the new ravelry group, and talk briefly about what I’ll be doing at Vogue Knitting Live! Oh, and there’s a lot of chat about the end of the world. Music by Neema Ntalel provided by Music Alley. Her EP was financed by AfricaUnsigned, a Kickstarter type site for musicians. I played Let’s Talk About Love and Into the Dawn. I also played Ichiro NAKAGAWA’s In Kamakkura as an interlude along with a few Star...
Chattering Classes & End Times
I started the reading list at the beginning of 2011 ostensibly to keep track of what books I read throughout the year and as reference when people asked me for recommendations, but I really just wanted to see if I could read 50 books in one year. I did. Ok, A Chef’s Christmas is probably cheating because it’s really an extended short story and the audio version is all of an hour. However, not only is this my list, but I spent the ENTIRE SUMMER reading those G. R. R. Martin books – including Feast for Crows which was just like slogging through The Silmarillion and made about as much sense – so if I want to include a lightweight like Bourdain’s raunchy holiday tale or the newest Stephanie Plum novel to reach 50 books for 2011, I...
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