these days of leiderhosen

Mr. Savage (author of the infamous column Savage Love) was an absolutely crucial factor in The Steven and Leiderhosen Semi-International Alliance of Doom. If you haven't heard his weekly podcast, you can catch it full force here . He has officially cursed all people who supported Proposition 8. I love Dan. I love when Colbert can't manage to hold himself together.

How cool is this in the news today? 11th century spindle fragment found in Iceland. Alone, this is no big deal; evidence of spinning has been found dating as far back the Upper Paleolith Era 20,000 years ago. (Cursing was invented shortly after spinning.) In fact, if it weren't for sheep with the mental equivalent of stale graham cracker crumbs and spinning, the human race wouldn't have thawed out enough to evolve to type endlessly on these pretty boxes with lights. At any rate the whining about how "wool itches" allows me years worth of time to not knit socks for the unenlightened. Okay, on with this history lesson. If there is a dig going on anywhere on the planet what is unveiled often includes spindle parts . Broken pots, phallic effigies, spindle bits . Much like Casa del Leiderhosen. But this green sandstone spindle is special; it has runes engraved on it, determining rune and written language use in this area and timing...blah, blah, blah. So what does the wr...

A double batch of fleur de sels caramels has been wrapped and is ready to go! Price to you? Totally free. Not even postage, Beloveds. Is anyone interested? Claim your own free packet by leaving a comment in this post, noting either something good in your life or which Bush Cabinet Member would you like to have put through the wood chipper. Or compose a short Haiku for Maddie Allbright. For those darling people who don't like sticky delicious handmade caramels or can't eat them, they do make excellent bribes to people you wish to rule for five minutes at a time. Try to govern your tiny nation wisely. I will ship them out until they are gone! Good Luck! You guys in Tuku and Great Britain? I am intrigued! Say hello!

I am still totally grooving on a merino/bamboo which spins up into a single that looks like polished stainless steel. It's smooth, bump and vegetation free and does exactly what I need it too. This is good, considering I have 6.75 more ounces to spin up. How cool is this? A Mother Marion Kickwheel . I just bought a print of the previously mentioned Patrick Mobergs 's November 4, 2008 illustration. My dad's hands are trembling more than ever; Mom once again let yet another paternally inheritable health fact drop that some day my hands will also be quaking as violently. I think if you boil us down, our family is pretty mechanically adept. We like the things our hands create. Am I going to have to say goodbye to that? (Note to self: look into the possibility of knitting with toes and peanut butter as a consumable adhesive.) Tattoo number three is officially in the works. Will get it completed and installed before the next birthday. Anyone know a good tattoo artist in the Bay...

Pat Oliphant can be found at gocomics.com . I could live without Oliphant, but why would I want to?

View the full slide show at the Daily Beast . Dad did not take my crowing with pleasure very well, but he did bring me strawberries from Gilroy. They were amazing. Mum, on the other hand, was deeply pleased. How those two got together I'll never know. Hadley Freeman (fashion editor for the Guardian.co.uk) is also quite pleased. I love the way she writes .

Mum's got a new car. It's a fully loaded Honda ("hey! XM! righteous!") and it's pretty. We were sitting in the car dealership yesterday, signing a bazillion forms and it struck us that car cost what Da and Mum paid for their Preteniousville California Ranch house forty-two years ago: $26,ooo. Da may spend his life acting like a single guy, but he does like to make sure we have good cars. Fiddly bits from the mind of Uncle Leiderhosen: It's early Sunday Morning and the sun isn't even up. The heater turned itself on and the cat has taken up residence inside my robe. It rained yesterday. I am still hopeful and excited about Obama's term. Our loss at Prop 8 is just battle in a war we will win. Wee Wonderfuls Kalinumba shawl patterns are unequalled . And in three languages. Edda and Amos at 9 Chickweed Lane are getting it on . Brooke McEldowney is pretty fabulous.