You know, right now I can’t be bothered to go through all the Convoluted Computer Crap to update feeds and links and all that BS, so just go here, OK??? I’ll do all the scut work and update, and explain everything later, when I am not in the middle of a mini-freakout…Or not…

I was so busy taking Etsy photos this evening that I almost forgot the Tuesday Top Ten…I know both of my readers would have been sooooo disappointed! *snerk*

Fred’s Top Ten

1. Dick Barton–The Hotknives

2. Help Save the Youth of America–Billy Bragg

3. Trans Am–The Teen Idles

4. Heart Attack Man–The Beastie Boys

5. Dance Crasher–Alton Ellis & The Flames

6. Trail of Time–The Knitters

7. Saying Goodbye Again–Rollins Band

8. Cyrano De Berger’s Back–X

9. Pied Piper–Bob & Marcia

10. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville–REM

I was so excited about my black and white socks…

I did the first one! It was fun! A challenge, but now I am a Real Knitter, because I Knitted A Sock! Woo hoo!!

I started the second one right away…No Second Sock Syndrome for me, no thank you sir! Worked away on my sock…Did the ribbing! Did the ankle, and turned the heel all by myself! Did the gussets and the decreases! So exciting, I was in the home stretch! My first real pair of socks, knitted by Me!!! Decreased along for the toe, did the toe, and put my finished sock on a stitch holder because I am a Noob and I still need some help with the kitchenering…

Then I looked at it, and realized just how much of a Knitting Knoob I really am…

I forgot to knit the foot…

I went to sleep last night thinking about Dua Khalil, and I woke up this morning thinking about her.

I don’t know what to say.

I read this.

I looked at this.

Finally, I watched this. (At your own risk, OK?)

I don’t pretend to be any sort of expert on the cultures of the Middle East, but I did earn a degree in Cultural History, and I “understand” the anthropological/sociological concepts behind these “honor killings”…But I don’t get it…

Right now I feel kind of blank…I can’t get my head around this…I can’t make it make sense…Her family did this to her…Not, “If you ever see this boy again, I’ll beat the living crap out of you”…Not, “You are grounded for eternity”…Not, “You’re going to ‘Other City X‘ to live with Auntie Gertrude until you come to your senses”…But death.

I remember being 17, and I got in big trouble for all kinds of things…Big trouble when you’re 17 is bad grades, or staying out past your curfew, or even dating a boy your parents don’t like…But so many things get you in big trouble when you’re a teenager, how could a girl possibly differentiate between big trouble and Big Trouble??

I can’t even cry for Dua…I hear people say the world is a beautiful, wonderful place, but often I have a really hard time believing it…

OK, so I’m doing some fiber research online…

Folks, there’s a difference, OK?

Dying…

And dyeing…

*sigh*

Teh Wurd Akording to Ceiling Cat

Probverbs 31

TEH PURFEKT WIFE

10 Teh gud wife iz bettr than cheezburgrz! Srsly!

11 her huzban trus her, an he haz the monies

12 shez gud an dont hert him.

13 gud wifes is stremly busy

14 makin shure’s der’s lotsa chezburgrz.

15 she gose far awai 2 get fud 4 her fambly.

16 her tinks bout field, n sez, I wantz it, and her takz it. Her maekz graepz grow. srsly.

17 her is srsly pwnzer, n herz got lotza strengthz, more then u.

18 Her maekz gud stuffz, and her can stayz up all nites! but her has to workzs.

19 her uzez dis staff, or mebe dat won, n she hodes it n her pawz.

Fred’s Top Ten

1. Bottle of Smoke–The Pogues

2. Suck My Kiss–Red Hot Chili Peppers

3. Back to Base–Fugazi

4. Cashing In–Minor Threat

5. Round And Round–The Germs

6. Stay Free–The Clash

7. Up Front–The Wailing Souls

8. Disconnect (Live)–Rollins Band

9. Trust–Billy Bragg

10. Supernaut–Black Sabbath

I promise to get back to  some Fibery Goodness real soon, but this might be the Best Thing I Have Ever Read…

It’s long, but totally worth it…I just can’t decide if the best part is where he saves the mayor’s nephew’s virginity, or when he threatens to taser people for taking too many Hickory Farms samples…No, wait, maybe it’s the guy popping up out of Orange Julius with a Kalashnikov!!

Good times.

So I finally decided to make the jump (a big one, for me) and take out an ad on Ravelry for my Etsy shop…Kinda scary, I’m not completely sure why…It’s not like I will immediately start receiving hateful emails from people telling me how much I suck and how all my work is ugly, etc. etc.

I spent the evening working on a banner ad for the groups section, and something to go in the notebook area as well…Turns out they’re not accepting ads right now, but I think the June slots will be opening up TOMORROW…

Wish me luck!

UPDATE:

OMFGS!!!

2 ads are pending. Pending ads are waiting for approval and will run once they have been approved.

Is it a Bad Thing that I pulled off the nicotine patch and tossed it into the ashtray as I lit up?

Since I have “Jimmy Crack Corn” stuck in my head, I decided it was high time to revive one of my old Blog gimmicks…The iPod Meme!

Put your iPod on shuffle and blog the first ten songs in the shuffle.

Fred’s Top Ten!

1. Pinhead–The Ramones

2. Bodies–The Sex Pistols

3. What’s The Matter (Live)–Rollins Band

4. One Love–Bob Marley

5. Who’s Laughin’ Now–The Original Sinners

6. Out of Step–Minor Threat

7. The Satanic Rites of King Hammond–King Hammond

8. Long Shot Kick De Bucket–Ska-Boom

9. Dance of the Sylphs (from ‘The Damnation of Faust’)–Berlioz

10. Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six–The Pogues