Meaning of Life? Nah… Just a Reminder of What’s Truly Important.

We popped into see this film, $9.99 last night and I was quite charmed by the whole experience. The animation was wonderful, the shading and textures on the characters was a refreshing sight from all the clean lines we see here in America with all the MacAnimation we get from the [...]

Say it isn’t so… Rmmmrghph!

Keanu to Play Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop
Isn’t Keanu Reeves a bit too old to be playing Spike Spiegel, the bounty hunter?  Rggggh~@#!!!  Okay, so here I’ll admit that I once had a cartoon crush on Spike from Cowboy Bebop. After him came Jin from Samurai Champloo. It’s not just sacrilege to cast Reeves… it’s [...]

Skull and Bones and Funny Nazis

I want to design a scarf for someone with a skull and bones. I found a pretty good pattern here at the Domiknitrix.
The skull fixation reminded me of a funny funny clip from “That Mitchell and Webb Look”
Have you looked at our caps recently… the badges on our caps… they’ve got skulls on [...]

What’s all this hooey about Jane Austen?

Cautionary note: if you truly love Jane Austen books just be forewarned. You may not want to read further… I have a bit of a complicated opinion about her writing and characters… Well, I warned you.
Jane Austen Movie Draws Fire from Fans
Whenever I take up “Pride and Prejudice” or “Sense and Sensibility,” I feel like [...]

More Dr. Who Knitting Trivia and Daleks

I’m a sci-fi geek. At lunch I spent some time working on my husband’s Dr. Who Scarf. I just found out today that Lalla Ward who played Romana, a companion to the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) actually has a line of knitting books out there. Here’s an example: Beastly Knits by Lalla Ward. [...]

Sew(knit) little silkworm, sew(knit)…

Remember that old cartoon where a familiar cartoon pig has the little silkworm that makes all sorts of silk dainties when he says the word “Sew (So).”  This was probably one of my favorite cartoons from my childhood. Though admittedly the little oriental caricature of the silkworm is a little irritating. But what can you [...]

Nanatoo the knitting demon

I got on one of those sort of fixes tonight…. I wanted to find stuff on knitting humor. In my efforts to collect knitting humor and pop-culture lore, I remembered one of my favorite episodes of the Mighty Boosh, “Nanageddon.” Nanatoo is one of the most feared demons of them all… she knits [...]

Kitsch, movies and knitting style

I just went to the dentist and came back needing a laugh so… I looked up one of my favorite movies on Youtube…Peter Sellers in The Party.

I’d love to knit that mini-dress in the clip. I wouldn’t love to wear it… just knit it.
I suddenly remembered this fantasy I had [...]

Robot based on knitting?

I just saw the Transformers movie yesterday. What a wonderful treat!
Great visual effects mixed with appealing robots and decent performances by John Tuturro and John Voight (two of my favorite actors).
So what do robots have to do with knitting? Well my husband actually found a post on one of the first viable robot designs ever [...]

Nerd Alert

I knit a version of the Dr. Who scarf a few years ago for my then fiance.  I didn’t have the appropriate camel colored yarn so I had to use Red-Heart. I absolutely hated it. Though E. says he liked it because it gave the scarf a sort of klunky look.
I still hate it.
So I [...]