Jennifer Crusie's Blog: Argh Ink

Molly Haselhorst sent me a link to the Ravelry page that links to WooWork.Com, the blog of Howie from British Columbia who is taking crochet in new directions, most of them bent. I love Howie’s joyful relationship story and his insanely wonderful work on the carrot jetpack, but mostly I just love his a-few-ticks-off-the-bubble imagination and generous and playful spirit. For example, there’s Ralph and Ruth necking:
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I can retire now.

Thanks to Cathy from Fort Lauderdale, I have discovered that I’m a crossword clue in the Tribune’s syndicated puzzle which means I’m a clue in Chicago, LA, and yes, Fort Lauderdale. Really, there’s nothing left to achieve.

Go here for the Feb. 25th puzzle. It looks like this:
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Amazon has a new Prime deal: sign up for Prime (which gives you free two-day shipping on most things) and they’ll give you a huge streaming video library for free. The library is eclectic, full of old film with some real oddities in there, but there are also some wonderful things: His Girl Friday, Charade, season four of the Inspector Lewis mysteries, documentaries I’ve wanted to watch like Helvetica and Comic Book Confidential, all the Doctor Whos, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead . . . really the variety is astounding. And it’s all just a click away. (I know this is Amazon’s entry drug to their Video on Demand program, but I was already there for that anyway.) It’s like buying a huge box of DVDs at a garage sale and going through them and finding treasure and dreck all thrown in together. And even the dreck is fascinating; read more >>

This post is such a cheat because (a) I just did a Good Blog post yesterday and (b) Lani linked to it first on her blog which is where I found it. But really, Allie Brosh is a genius.
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Rox sent our critique group, the Glindas, to la boite verte to see pictures like this:

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