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MeTa post:
Of making many books
Knitgrrl
Knitgrrl 2
Spin to Knit
Felt Frenzy (co-author)
Crochet Style
AlterNation (co-author)
The Pillow Book
How to Knit in the Woods
Just Socks (editor)
Just Gifts (editor)
Alt Fiber -- not on Amazon yet, out this fall
plus stuff in some other books...but these ones are mine!... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 12:44 PM on February 23, 2008
paduasoy: Thanks bitter-girl.com - I've ordered your crochet book, looks good. You were one of the people I thought had published something, but couldn't find what - couldn't see a link on your blog.
Uh huh, it's intentional, alas. As I explained once upon a time in another thread, my publisher lost a big, big sale of my first book to some wacky religiously-inspired book club and pitched a fit about links between my personal and knitting sites (and my... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 12:08 PM on February 25, 2008
MeTa post:
You get more with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.
Oh my god, I'm agreeing with konolia on something! ;) (hi, konolia!)
Cortex, I've had this happen, too, and I'm a pretty bossy-assed bitch on the phone when needed. Some people just will NOT listen to a woman.
[Also, I've found that I get better results when I call about something than when I go in (prejudice against the way I look? I don't know...), so I know it's not my phone skills in general.]
Sure, it's an... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 10:54 AM on February 21, 2008
cortex, please cease all insightful opinion formation regarding human interactions until such time as you have, Doctor Sam Beckett style, leaped into the souls of people matching every possible type. Also, someone tivo that for me. ...Oh boy!
ha! good one... and point taken, cortex, didn't mean to pick on you too too terribly. :)
they're going to pick their fights, and a fight on two fronts is probably not one they'll... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 11:00 AM on February 21, 2008
MeTa post:
Are some more worthy of respect than others?
I just wanted to pull out this particular section of Pater Aletheias's comment, because I think it's been overlooked:
It starts with us. When the church is known more for humility than power, more for love than hate, and more for gentleness than anger, then non-Christians might start to be ashamed of the way they've been speaking about those selfless folks who seem to always have an open hand for those in need. But we aren't there right now, and I think that... [more]
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at 10:39 AM on February 18, 2008
Lentrohamsanin -- if you're interested in the Heliand, you might also want to grab a copy of The Saxon Savior (the former as translated and annotated by, and the latter written by) G. Ronald Murphy, SJ. It goes into a lot of the backstory that will make the Heliand more accessible and interesting for you to get through.
And ooh, this one's new to me, it seems Murphy also has one out called The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 1:28 PM on February 18, 2008
MeTa post:
Possibly, Secret Santa
Stupid computer gave me the same person 2x in a row at Thinkblank. What's the chance of that? I'm in... and I better not be getting ladybugs. ;)
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 6:46 PM on November 26, 2007
I'm all excited now, I am!
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 10:38 AM on December 24, 2007
MeTa post:
Meh
My boyfriend wouldn't let me name our cat Chairman Meow.
But speaking of kittens, I will, however, put forth kittens for breakfast's fantastic and frequently-used-in-real-life saying on the table as on option:
"Gah!"
(used to express horror or shock, much as one uses "meh" for indifference or boredom).
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 2:02 PM on December 21, 2007
MeTa post:
Why was my reply to post 78716 removed?
So while we're on a big huge flamey derailathon, this comment
My guess is that admins can use the tag and see deleted stuff. Like that Dune thing with the spice and what have you.
reminded me of a story. Once, in Boston, I was in a video store and they were playing Dune on the tv and just as he said "the spice must flow" I was picking up a copy of Spice World off the shelf. COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT.
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 10:34 AM on December 16, 2007
MeTa post:
Make the Pledge
Put another way, in my dreams is where you are all vikings.
And in just a few days, I'll have the hat to match!
(just ordered 2 of these... have always wanted one).
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 9:24 AM on November 27, 2007
MeTa post:
MeFi Mall...who's with me?
I sell hand-dyed yarn on Etsy and lots of other stuff in my (brick and mortar) store, too.
Such as: signed copies of crafty books (my own + Amy Butler, Kim Werker, Therese Laskey, you name it), kits, patterns, fiber, aforementioned yarn, la la la. Viva la crafty, yo.
<>
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 6:41 PM on November 26, 2007
And even with spaces, that ruined my fake "end self-pimping" tag... I'm in over on Elfster.
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 6:50 PM on November 26, 2007
MeTa post:
dateme.com
kittens for breakfast, come on! This would be a fabulous, fabulous way to find your very own kickass adorable knitting comic book-tolerant type!1
DO WANT!
1) note, I am a kickass adorable knitting comic book-tolerant type, but I'm already dating kittens' best friend.
2) why I stopped being a stockbroker ;)
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 2:40 PM on October 25, 2007
I keep TELLING you, my dear little kitten, that you NEED a knitter, they're the only ones who understand STASH. Do what me and the mister do -- I say nothing about the stacks of comic books, he says nothing about the piles of yarn and everyone's happy.
As for the scare-quote ravishing, well, I can't help you there. ;)
Besides, your cat needs a "mama" who has lots of yarn, it's only fair. (Hey! wait! those were... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 3:35 PM on October 25, 2007
MeTa post:
There is a snark in the title, covered with a URL
Baptists don't seem to constantly bully the country into passing state laws and Constitutional amendments against alcohol and those who partake, so while it would be hypocritical for a Baptist minister to die of alcohol poisoning, it wouldn't be as important for the rest of us to note and discuss.
Read the latest issue of Reason? The neo-Prohibitionist assholes have it in for the rest of us, too.
Count me in the Call The... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 7:57 AM on October 14, 2007
MeTa post:
Self Link?
If I could find it, snsranch, I'd link it... a little birdie once told me about an *ahem* adult video featuring one Fucko the Clown.
As if clowns didn't freak me out already...
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 4:51 PM on October 3, 2007
MeTa post:
Where my stitches at?
I'm there, too, but in my Professional GuiseTM as 'knitgrrl' -- friend me if you're already on!
(and no, I didn't get some superspecial invite, I had to wait just like everyone else... Ravelry is awesome!)
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 7:30 PM on July 16, 2007
MeTa post:
Rolex! Five dollar!
I first heard "use your words" being used by a crunchy-granola hippie mama friend of mine from college, applied to a shrieky 2-year-old who wanted to shriek more so than express any particular desire or annoyance. That was probably 1996 or so...
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 4:22 PM on June 27, 2007
MeTa post:
MetaFatty?
The real question is - "Why does our government want us all fat?"
So they can sell us to the aliens, duh!
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 5:24 AM on June 3, 2007
MeTa post:
Detailed description of farm history; MeFi relatives get in on the act.
Wow. This gave me so much insight into what my family used to do on their farm before they came up from southern Ohio to the northeast, near Cleveland. I grew up helping my great-grandma cook and can vegetables, I've helped make lye soap... but this was really, really great to read. Let me join the wants-a-podcast chorus!
I truly wish I'd recorded my great-grandma's amazing (and hilarious) stories while she was still here. But the all-time best grandma put-down ever? My... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 8:42 AM on May 5, 2007
MeTa post:
What do you want to read next?
I'm in, but as knitgrrldotcom, not bitter-girl.com -- I try to keep my personal blog and my "business" blog lives separate as much as possible. And besides, my LibraryThing author page and account is under knitgrrldotcom...
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 11:51 AM on May 1, 2007
MeTa post:
LOL XTIANS #45,982,761,305...
I like to know the enemy.
This is why my sick, demented boyfriend has subscriptions to Focus on the Family, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and who only knows how many other obnoxious newsletters. "Gotta keep a closer eye on the enemy than you do your friends."
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 12:43 PM on April 4, 2007
MeTa post:
Let them snark at the snort
What's interesting to me is not the "OMG Keith Richards likes cocaine!" aspect (no shit, Sherlock), but what It's Raining Florence Henderson said -- it's not laughing at drugs so much as Dear Lord How Much Weirder Can Our Culture Possibly Get? And therefore a source of potentially much more interesting info -- I'd like to see what ColdChef had up his sleeve...
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 4:53 PM on April 3, 2007
Exactly, ardgedee -- from 197i'mtoolazytolookitup when Paul McCartney got busted for marijuana to today, where Keef can pretty much say anything about drugs -- maybe everyone's hypnotized by that appalling mustache and no one really *hears* what he's saying.
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 5:56 AM on April 4, 2007
It was more thought-provoking than a typical one-link-YouTube post, though.
Really, ColdChef -- where were you going with the "I've seen worse"?
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 6:36 AM on April 4, 2007
Awww, that's no fun.
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 9:48 AM on April 4, 2007
MeTa post:
just checking
I would publish that book in a heartbeat. (No, seriously. I started up my own publishing house last year). I'm holding an ISBN open for you, tkchrist...
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 12:34 PM on March 20, 2007
lilithim -- ha!
tkchrist, you can email me via my personal website (it's in my profile -- myfirstname@domain.com)
crazier things have sold, that's all I'm saying...
now, all we need is a volunteer team of MeFites or supercodemonkeywranglers to find and concatenate into a file The Collected Stories and Amusing Comments of...
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 2:15 PM on March 21, 2007
MeTa post:
An otherwise great post on a gynecologist...
Well, cortex, similarly my screwed-up elbow. I thought it was relevant to this topic since it involved a male doctor being an ass and treating me like a child, all while getting big pats on the back from other doctors and the same medical board who let this jerkface loose on the unsuspecting Ohio populace. Just because something relates to a topic doesn't mean it's necessarily relevant or welcome in the broader discussion.
jonmc? American Chopper? ooooooh... unintentional pun?
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 8:48 AM on January 9, 2007
I second jonmc -- whaaaaaa? Cite, please? And not from some crazypants organization, from a peer-reviewed medical journal or the like.
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 8:54 AM on January 9, 2007
Ok, so in the linked study, we get:
However uncircumcised men appear slightly more likely to to experience sexual dysfunctions, especially later in life. Finally, we find that circumcised men engage in a more elaborated set of sexual practices. This pattern differs across ethnic groups, suggesting the influence of social factors.
and
The association between circumcision status and the various... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 9:03 AM on January 9, 2007
Dear lord, jonmc. I don't even have a penis and that made me squirm.
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 9:10 AM on January 9, 2007
Well, all the uncut Catholic boys I know are poster children for masturbation -- where is this study digging up its data?
And again: While circumcised men of all 3 ethnic groups tended to engage in more elaborated set of sexual practices, this was less true of blacks and Hispanics.
Y'know, this gets me thinking... what is considered "elaborate" these days? And does this data correlate with the urban... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 9:20 AM on January 9, 2007
I wish I had an actual sock puppet of Ceiling Cat, Alvy! Imagine the fun...
And spacediver, it's relevant because the study you referenced flat-out said: "While circumcised men of all 3 ethnic groups tended to engage in more elaborated set of sexual practices, this was less true of blacks and Hispanics."
So, broken down:
Circumcised men of all 3 ethnic groups tended to engage in more elaborated set of sexual practices.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 9:35 AM on January 9, 2007
Divine_Wino: with Steve Martin's Penis Cream?
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 9:55 AM on January 9, 2007
Uh-huh, Mister_A. You said it better than I did.
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 10:06 AM on January 9, 2007
Please tell me you're making that up, nathancaswell. Please?
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 12:32 PM on January 9, 2007
Oh dear. I was afraid you weren't kidding.
Now the only way to top this is some kind of vaginal ping pong ball assault on said trapped army man. We gotta save him, kids. He's one of ours! And we never leave a man behind. Or is that a man's behind? Or some other elaborate sexual practice...
(wheeeeee! so this is what too much caffeine feels like!)
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 12:40 PM on January 9, 2007
Agreed, agregoli -- that article was terrible. Well-written, but disturbing. Should we ever reproduce, I can see this sort of thing coming up repeatedly (not circumcision-wise, we're all agreed on that one) -- I'm dreading the day I have to tell a certain relative on my boyfriend's side to go stick it as regards my (potential) offspring. S/he hates me enough as it is...
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 1:42 PM on January 9, 2007
Miracles can happen, grapefruitmoon.
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 4:21 PM on January 9, 2007
Why are you even surprised, disclaimer? You've got all the button-pushing topics in one go... including the ever-popular penis.
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 6:16 PM on January 9, 2007
I feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Like a warm fuzzy penis.
The penis itself is fuzzy? Not just the balls? eeeeeewwwww! Let's shave it!
(stands back and watches conversation devolve into a shouting match over the relative merits of manscaping)
And yes, that was a great set of posts on feminism & privilege.
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 7:06 AM on January 10, 2007
Yeah, well, jonmc, you must not love your wife. That stuff can itch.
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 7:34 AM on January 10, 2007
Metafilter: Mother Nature's Topiary
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 7:52 AM on January 10, 2007
or a hollowed out -- oh dang, I just forgot what they were called, is it tauntaun? -- thingy from The Empire Strikes Back...
posted to MetaTalk by bitter-girl.com
at 10:56 AM on January 10, 2007
