Althea Crome On Knitting Miniature Sweaters & Gloves For Coraline

A 2-min. video. She says it takes between six weeks to six months for her to design an knit one of her miniature sweaters. She had been doing this a while before she was asked to knit stuff for the movie Coraline.

Because those beliefs are effectively a faith. Because straight white men hold a place in society that makes it very hard for the blinders to come off. Because he can view your struggles and fights as exceptions, and probably does.

He does. That's what he always says, "You're not one of them."

I've come to the conclusion that such a mindset is nearly impossible to shake. The myth of the Individual vs. The Eeebil Government seems to be embedded in the lizard brain or something.

Thank you for that. Really.

I've come to the conclusion that such a mindset is nearly impossible to shake. The myth of the Individual vs. The Eeebil Government seems to be embedded in the lizard brain or something.

Perhaps some of those beliefs could be shaken, but lots of those people only trust Fox, right-wing radio, etc. so they never get confronted with reality.

It can be really frustrating to deal with. The many Libertarians in my life, I love dearly, but they're so focused on the micro (cost to the individual) that they sometimes seem physically incapable of seeing that the macro (cost to society) can be just as coercive and icky.

I mean, I've been a starry-eyed Randhead. I do understand the appeal. I just think it takes more faith in humanity than I'm capable of to think it would ever work.

I mean, I've been a starry-eyed Randhead.

Oh, man, we are reading The Fountainhead for bookclub this month. TORTURE! It's just so bad and so very long and printed with such tiny type. It will be an interesting discussion though.

I enjoyed The Fountainhead when I read it back when I was 18 or 19. I wonder what I'd think today...

Also, I'm freaking out a bit (in both a good and a bad way) about a thingy that is happening tomorrow. Please send some unspecified ~ma my way tomorrow at 8AM.

A friend who works at Comedy Central was just saying something about having to bleep out "queef" and "fishsticks" on something that was going up on their website. But I'd never heard about a dirty connation of "fishsticks" before. All I can find (on Urban Dictionary) is a stupid joke (that was then repeated on South Park) where "fishstick" = fish penis.

Ha! Some guy in line was describing this episode to me yesterday; it sounded pretty funny. The whole thing was mocking Kanye West. Apparently, Cartman and Timmy make up a joke that goes like this:

"Do you like fishsticks?"
"Yeah."
"Do you like fishsticks in your mouth?"
"Yeah."
"You're a gay fish!"

Somehow it gets told to Kanye West. And then Kanye West resolutely declares that he is not, in fact, a gay fish.

I mean, I've been a starry-eyed Randhead. I do understand the appeal. I just think it takes more faith in humanity than I'm capable of to think it would ever work.

This is how I feel about unadultrated Marxism OR unadultrated capitalism - we're not evolved enough for either to work the way they are supposed to.

Ugh. I think my first week of taking prenatal vitamins (the only way I've ever been able to tolerate taking iron--there's irony for you) is starting to wear on my stomach. I've been vaguely nauseous all day.

The green tea isn't doing a lot to settle things down-- I may have to break out the ginger tea.