Mini-Entries!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

So apparently we have decided to skip spring this year and switch from winter to summer pretty much overnight. It’s kind of awesome to have 76-degree weather and snow at the same time, but this does mean that we’re gonna get a lot of snowmelt really fast and the canyons may flood.



But it sure looks cool.

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Mom and I went to the quilt show last Saturday. We are obviously drawn to the same sorts of bright colors:


Alas that the lighting isn’t better here. It was equally wrong with and without flash.


It was tough to get good angles on these things, too, since people kept jostling around. This was the best I could do.

God help us if someone makes us a Lisa Frank quilt. We may not stop at pictures, and just steal the whole dang thing..

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Oh, sure, the say they’re just two friends enjoying sodas together, but I am beginning to suspect that Daja fancies Kuen a little.



Okay, actually I set them up this way because it’s impossible to make a doll without knee joints look less than silly when they sit on chairs. I was surprised at how nice this looks.

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My sister and I managed to convince each other to watch different versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The 1978 version of the movie is hugely entertaining for its hideous fashions (plaid tweed and turtleneck sweaters!), its attempt to oversell that THIS IS A HORROR MOVIE, DAMMIT,* and its giving you the sense that you're watching an entire cast of people with short-term memory loss. Every time they run into someone they haven’t seen for a while, they forget to check to see if they’re dealing with a fresh pod person or not. And Donald Sutherland just can’t let go of the idea that the police are his friends.

Also, I know it doesn’t makea sense and the 78 version is a remake, but I like the idea that Kevin McCarthy spent 22 years running through the streets yelling “THEY’RE HERE!” at passing vehicles.

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I am always stunned when someone tells me they have never seen Donald in MathMagic Land. I thought it was required for substitute teachers to show this video to keep the kids from overthrowing the administration. Which was just fine with me, since it always fascinated my nerdly little mind.

Yup. Still awesome. And still clinging to that 50’s We Can Do Anything WITH SCIENCE attitude at the end there. I wish there were more of that around.

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Got The Farm all planted out on the deck—finally. The seedlings were ready for their big kid beds. I’m not sure the thyme is really thrilled with the transplant, though. I may have to replant it, but I’ll see how it does first.

I was excited to see my carrots and beets actually sprout this year, though. I’ll let you know how they do!


*The soundtrack tried way too hard, but Ben Burtt's use of ultrasound noises was inspired, as is most of what Ben Burtt does. Fit in with the whole fetal motif of the podbabies.

Comments

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine got a book about making that first kind of quilt because the cover was full of bright bright colors. I love colors all in order.

[flutterbychild.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh! I never knew Utah was so pretty!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

The Salt Lake Valley is absolutely gorgeous. Come by to visit sometime and I'll take you up the canyons to show you the view.

Were you around when I was taking my Oregonian pal Liz on a tour of Snowbird and Moab? My home state may be strange, but it sure is beautiful.

[flutterbychild.livejournal.com]

I missed those posts...so much pretty! Does it outweigh the crazy?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Well, no.

I've grown up here, so I'm part of the crazy, but I'm guessing for an outsider it would be filed in the category of Nice Place To Visit.

[acrossthelake.livejournal.com]

Tris says, and I quote, "Kuen? That fey scatterbrain had better treat Daja well if she wants to avoid a bolt of lightning to the face." (In other news, I'm jealous of your current gardening capabilities. I've been wanting to start one since roughly half a year before I moved over here. Do keep us up to date on all that.)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

*grin* Well, given that they're 13 and 14 years old, it'll probably wind up being mostly just a shy and awkward friendship, but you never know!

There are a lot of resources on gardens in small spaces if you're interested. If not, though, I'll definitely keep you updated.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

That first quilt is utterly gorgeous. It makes me want to go crochet an afghan in jewel tones RIGHT NOW. (An urge which comes on frequently, but if I lie down quietly in a dark room for a bit it usually goes away.)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I have that problem any time I'm around art supplies. And yeah, I now want to make a ripoff of that quilt.

[piccolo-pirate.livejournal.com]

Donald in MathMagic Land was pretty much required watching whenever we had a math substitute. I've probably seen it, oh, five times now. Not always all the way through, though - depended on how long it took the poor sub to get everyone's attention. It's still the first thing I think of whenever I see a pool table.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's how it was for me--it was One Of Those Videos they had on hand for subs. (There was also one badly animated feature about a boy who turns into a sparrow and then, somehow, learns an important lesson about alcohol consumption.) I would get really angry at the kids who descended into anarchy whenever there was a sub, because I flippin' LOVED Donald and wanted to watch it.

[dinogrrl.livejournal.com]

I honestly thought that first quilt was a stained glass panel at first.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

It was pretty spectacular--and I love stained glass anyway, so this was definitely on my list of favorites!

[westrider.livejournal.com]

If you stopped by the McKenna Ryan booth at the quilt show, you probably saw/met my boss. I had to ship so much stuff down there for them, it was ridiculous. I think the final total was something like 17 boxes, about 280 pounds of stuff. Not counting what got sent over from the manufacturing facility in Montana, which I think might have been more.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I wondered about that when you were grumbling about getting ready for a quilt show a few entries back! I'm afraid I didn't pay much attention to the booths, though. Maybe next time the show comes through!

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Yep, that was the show I was complaining about. I didn't actually think about the fact that it and you were both in SLC until this weekend, or I would have suggested you go and check out the new chicken quilt she did. It's adorable.

[friendoffrogs13.livejournal.com]

Those are some beautiful quilts. I especially like the first one.

I also really enjoyed Donald Duck in MathMagic Land. I'd never seen it before, but I'd heard my brother mention it years ago. (I don't think he watched it with a sub; I think it was an end of year treat.)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I thought it was funny that they were two very different quilts, but they both had bright colors. I am easy to please in some ways. ;)

I am glad you liked the Donald video! I've always had a soft spot for it, since it was one of my first introductions to some of the cooler aspects of math. So I'm happy I could share it!

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

BTW, have you seen John Carpenter's The Thing?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Agatha Christie On Ice, starring Kurt Russell's Hair? Heck yeah!

My favorite part, other than the defibrillator scene, is when Wilford Brimley is examining a misshapen mass of biological tissue that used to be some Norwegians and he pokes it with a pencil eraser--and then immediately starts CHEWING ON THAT ERASER. Dude, I wouldn't advise that even if there WASN'T some shape-stealing alien monster in the suspect pool (which I suppose there wasn't at the time ...).