Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Year: 2004

  • Unprecedented

    “I really marked the end of the Republic when the election ended without a public outcry” –Gore Vidal in Unprecedented." Last night I watched the film Unprecedented, directed by Richard Ray Perez, and Joan Sekler. The film came out in 2002. I had never seen it before. It is about the 2000 election, some of…

  • My Blog Rules

    I’m laying down some ground rules. First of all, if you read my blog please don’t read another word until you go to this site and read this disclaimer. Okay, now that you have read that, I have a few rules of my own to lay down. 1.This is my online journal. It is not…

  • instructions for hat

    I’ll post some instructions for knitting the hat (boy my mood has soured considerably in the last two hours. Mandrake, Daffodil, I don’t know how you do it.) I need to sketch out the intarsia on some graph paper and scan it and put it up here so look for it later. I learned to…

  • Look what I made

    I was inspired yesterday to knit up a watch cap. Take a look: It’s supposed to say “Kerry 04” BTW 🙂 . Anyway, I decided to make it because I was angry and i need to get out my aggression somehow, and I tell you what, knitting is a great way to relieve stress (oh,…

  • What the hell is this “Kerry shot himself” madness

    As an addendum to my “have you seen outfoxed yet?” post, I wanted to add something that I chatted about on the Majority Report Blog yesterday. Some of the bloggers were talking about how Michelle Malkin, on Hardball yesterday was trying to tell Chris Matthews that Kerry shot himself in order to get his medals,…