I'd show you pictures of the merino/yak mix I plied yesterday, but I'd have to wade through electricians and carpenters and plastic sheeting to get to daughter's camera since mine is on the fritz. Suffice to say that it's soooffffttt. Looks crunchy, in that rustic Lopi kind of way, but it's super, close-to-the-skin soft.
Plus, I have rants to get out of my system, and that's more productive.
First, why can't I get that shhhhing in my headphones to stop so I can write and listen to music with no words and drown out the country music and commercials coming from the electrician's radio in the other room? It's enough to put me over the edge.
Second, for what possible reason would my local paper publish a picture of a black man in KKK garb taunting our mayor on its front page above the fold in the city edition, but put just a cropped version of that picture, sans KKK guy, on the front page of the suburban edition. Are they trying to foment racial anger? Did the editors make a conscious decision to inflame city dwellers with that picture and think that maybe suburbanites wouldn't really care about downtown goings on? On my list of things to do is contact the ombudsman of our esteemed media outlet and ask these exact questions. Out of towners might wonder why there was a picture of a black man wearing KKK garb on the front page of our paper. Um. Yeah. There was a kerfuffle downtown where a bunch of protesters taunted and shouted down and disrupted the MLK event at which our white mayor was a speaker. The protesters, mostly black, think our mayor has behaved badly toward a black former fire chief. Maybe there are grounds for the protest (I haven't kept up with that story), but I do think that the rude nature of the shouting and the downright offensive nature of the guy evoking the KKK and their lynchings and violence was not exactly in the spirit of Dr. King's message or his legacy. That said, I guess it's news, but how come it's only news here in the urban part of our metro area? Just sayin'.
Third, Dear Daughter wants to go to the Jonas Brothers concert here next month. Questionable taste notwithstanding (**grin**), we got online at precisely the moment the tickets were to go on sale and my Metrotix account was perfectly up to date, but when we clicked on the tickets at the appointed time, we were blocked. Next click, the tickets were sold out. Within the minute that they were to go on sale. But, to my astonishment, there were tickets available within 5 minutes on a ticket scalping site, TicketsNow, for -- get this -- 10 times the face value, sometimes more! That quickly those slimebags had snagged all of the tickets and were scalping them, legally I guess, to us. Lovely. Well, I'm not paying that markup. I know that the artists or the venue aren't getting that money. Why should scalpers? If you are one of the parents out there who are supporting this horrible practice so that your kids can get these tickets, shame on you. Really. You're probably the ones who pulled up with your 7-year-old to High School Musical at the Fox last month in a stretch Hummer Limousine. What are you going to do for her wedding? Or you're the lady I sat next to at the Hannah Montana concert with a 4-year-old in a Hannah wig in your lap sucking her thumb and sleeping because it was after 9 when the second set started! And if you have that much disposable income, really, I know of several places that could really use a hand up. (BTW, we got tickets to both of those shows because we are subscribers or season ticket holders and got a heads up ahead of time... otherwise, I'd have experienced this scam much earlier.) I'm composing a letter to my city and state representatives concerning this topic.
I do have other things burning a hole in my panties. They are school and traffic related, though, so they can wait for another day. Plus... you've heard them before. **grin again**
Give em hell, Annie! I agree with you completely.
Posted by: CindyCindy | January 25, 2008 at 10:39 AM
::blink blink::
Posted by: trek | January 25, 2008 at 02:16 PM
I'm so embarrassed to say that i think those boys are the dreamiest...
Posted by: Mindy | January 25, 2008 at 03:32 PM
Isn't it a good thing the weekend is here?! I have had that kind of week too!
I have to know: What kind of wheel do you have?! I was looking at your spinning pictures and couldn't figure it out. Yep, only another spinner would ask this....lol!
Posted by: Rhonda | January 25, 2008 at 04:47 PM
Ah, I haven't yet experienced the concert thing, never even heard of the Jonas Brothers, but I plan to follow in your footsteps, if and when. (One does wonder how much the scalpers paid whom to have everyone else blocked.)
My daughter loves HM. I don't get it.
Totally with you on better ways to spend money.
Posted by: Lucia | January 28, 2008 at 10:42 AM