I didn’t realize until the other day when I actually HAD to go to the post office how horribly depressing of an event it had become. Growing up and through most of my life the post office had always been a hub of activity for the town. You would run into a neighbor or someone you knew and the peop...

Yesterday we brought you the story of how police in Bogota, Colombia put a hurting on rioting Iron Maiden fans, spraying these naughty metalheads with tear gas and breaking out the billy clubs and eventually arresting over 100 people. Now Maiden's management is trying to downplay the level of mayhem...

Lorne Gunter of the National Post disgraced himself yet again this weekend with another outrageously inaccurate column about something he apparently knows nothing about: climate science. Gunter held forward William Happer as his climate skeptic champion to put those dullards at the IPCC to shame. He...

Water, electric, phone, internet access– bah! Who needs em? All I need is tasty handpainted roving. My family disagrees, for some reason they think its more convenient to have food and running water. I’ll never understand them. This a sport weight that I made from spinning Moonlightbaker...

The “reports” come in from all over the internet and the papers, day after day after day: Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail: Democrat Rahm Emanuel put his Chicago residency in the name of a charity to avoid property taxes… Phil Gremillion at The Daily Advertiser of Lafayette,...

Will someone, anyone, explain to me why there has been shock and outrage at the size of Fred Goodwin's pension? I mean it's not like its been some sort of secret for the past six months. "[Goodwin] has an £8.37 million pension pot that will pay him £579,000 per year when he reaches the bank's reti...

The last couple of days have seen definite Yin-Yang going on in  my life.   Good:   I finished the first sleeve for Mr. Not-So-Greenjeans on the way home Friday night.  I just need to get going on the second sleeve. Even Better: How far would you drive for a spin in?  Here’s my answer (ro...

Introducing the world's (as far as I know anyway) first aromatherapeutic yarn! It's like you are  knitting, or crocheting of course, and you need some kind of boost. So you try your second cup of coffee but that's not cutting it. Instead that second cup is making your eyes go all j...

I’ve been up since 7:30am and I’ve barely sat down today.  It actually feels really good to be so busy today.  The first thing I did was dye a big bunch of roving.  This is about a half pound or more of that mixed wool/llama/mohair/whatever that I got at the fiber fair last year, ...

A colleague calls my attention to Frank Rich's column over the weekend, which starts in on our governor about halfway down:     At least the G.O.P.’s newfound racial sensitivity saved it from choosing the white Southern governor often bracketed with Jindal as a rising “star...