new style muse

[incandescens]

Okay, so I love today's Oglaf. (Words involved possibly not safe for work or young children, should you have either in the immediate vicinity.)

Quilt-for-raffle-for-orang-outang-sanctuary progresses nicely, and just needs binding. This will probably take two or three evenings work: the machine-stitched part of it is reasonably straightforward (please, please let it not all go badly wrong now that I've just said that) but hand-stitching the back of the binding for that extra smooth touch does take a while. (The quilt is three feet by four feet. That makes fourteen feet of hand sewing. Time to put a good musical DVD on and sing along while whipstitching.)

I could wish there wasn't work tomorrow. At least the clocks haven't gone forward yet. Another joy not to look forward to.

---

What was the First City?

Only two things are known to remain of the First City: the name, the Crossroads Shaded By Cedars, and the saying: even the First City was young when Babylon fell.

-- Echo Bazaar

Comments

[archangelbeth]

*giggles a lot* I think I get tag-teamed by a muse like that (usually when I'm in the shower or something) and one who plays hard-to-get...

[incandescens]

Now if only they'd be consistent about when they show up . . .

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

Hee. I think I need a muse like that.

[incandescens]

Yes, me too.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Me three.

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the hand stitching is the longest part. I did a king sized quilt once. Never again.

[incandescens]

So far all my quilts have been fairly small ones, thank goodness.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

I find talking books are pretty good for the long horrible repetitive bits - it's only sound, so I never get tempted to watch something that isn't what my hands are doing.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

(Not that a good movie isn't pretty cool too.)

[incandescens]

I've never quite caught the taste for talking books, but with a musical I can always sing along. "Proud officer, that haughty lip uncurl! Vain man, suppress that supercilious sneer! For I have dared to love your matchless girl, a fact well known to all my messmates here!"

("Oh, horror!")

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

... Gilbert and Sullivan?

[incandescens]

Yup. HMS Pinafore.

I, humble, meek, and lowly born,
The meanest in the port division,
The mark of epauletted scorn,
The butt of quarterdeck derision,
Have dared to raise my wormy eyes
Above the dust to which you'd mould me
In manhood's glorious prime to rise -
I am an Englishman - behold me!

. . . it brightens up the whole evening. ;)

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

^_^

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

I love Oglaf.com! I think my all-time favorite is the Fountain of Doubt.

[incandescens]

Yes, that's a classic. :)