Wool & Words

First, a bit of quiz merriment:

Which of Henry VIII's wives are you?
this quiz was made by the proper Victorian ladies at Spookbot

Years ago, when I used to cross stitch a lot, I collected New Stitches, a British mag that had lovely charts and graphs for flowers, figures, and generally lovely stitched items. The magazine always struck me as having an encyclopedic quality. There were always bellpull projects that crammed something like 20 different birds or flowers into tasteful designs that would bring the woods into your twee country home. They also had this great series of blackwork/cross stitch renditions of portraits of Henry & his wives. Perhaps when I start cross stitching again (in my next life, at this rate), I'll stitch up ol' Katherine Parr.

In Other News
I spent a good part of the weekend reading Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray's ruminations on the direction narrative endeavor on the WWW may be taking. An engaging, thought-provoking read. I highly recommend it.

I didn't get to see Janet Jackson's "revelation" on the Super Bowl. Steve and I did a movie double header: The Color Purple and Signs. I think we got the better end of the deal. What a nightmare! Shame on Justin Timberlake and shame on Janet, "Miss Jackson if you're nasty!"

I wag my finger at you both. *wag wag wag*

Zeus was also disappointed and assumed his sphinx persona.