I'm in love with a sheep. His name is Thunder and he's a Corriedale wether. We met on the East Mountain Fiber Farm tour today and I got to feed him graham crackers. He came running over at breakneck speed the minute he heard the crinkling of the plastic. What a doll! All the animals at the two farms I visited were really affectionate and photogenic. It will take a week or so for photos to be developed but in the meantime, here's my loot from the event.

Some alpaca/Corriedale roving:



A goat cookie cutter:




And of course I had to buy some of Thunder's yarn, didn't I?

Left-handed art: Walter Benjamin

These days one cannot cling to his own specialty. Improvisation is always the high card. The crucial moves will always be made with the left hand.

- quoted from memory, my translation of a Portuguese translation of Walter Benjamin.

I'm not really sure if it was meant to be a critique or just a statement of a fact, but it made me think. Aren't the "post-avant-gardes" based on the principle of innovation? Isn't the idea of having to be new and different exactly the "left-handed trick" attitude?
So what we might be living is an art world of right-handed painters, sculptors, poets, writers, theater directors, that all create works with their left hand, because "that's the trick"?

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I've been watching a lot of baseball (and the National Spelling Bee today - I wanted Samir to win but he only made second). Consequently I'm only working on plain projects these days.

Here are the plain red socks - yarn is from Elann, their Sock it to Me line.



Here's Peaches playing dead. I told you she was a drama queen bunny. She sleeps with her eyes open but I can tell she's snoozing because her ears go back when she conks out.

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(I couldn't find anything about the author of above work. His name is Bob Cromer, and he might be the person listed here or here)









(from the Isitart? page)

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Museum of failures

I don't know how public the access to the exhibits is, but it looks like perfect terrain for a writer to wander around...
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