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February 10, 2006

EEeeeek! Lions, Ghosts, and 2-headed Beastes.

Last night I had this knitting dream where I was wanting to make a baby project, a colorful blanket of some kind, and all they had at this weird yarn store was Lion Brand.The best thing about Lion Brand is the name and the nice old skool kinda lion on the packaging. Whoa. I woke up in a panic!
Anyway, I'm over it.
Btw, here is and article from the Chicago Journal about the last Critical Mass ride, the one where the Ghost Bike was installed. There's a nice picture of the bike, Chopper Carl, and the crowd that spilled out into Western Ave. And also, a funny quote from a girl with a funny (mispelled!! And plus that's Rats with a capital R!) name, oy gawd, was she just running off at the mouth?! -Due to adrenalin, due to the police having shown up and begun running amok, as they are wont to do, arresting people at a peaceful memorial
for a community member, neighbor, friend to some, symbol to most of what is wrong with the state of city streets!-You decide! In any event, it was an event, and I thought I'd share.
And all of that took place back when it was still springtime in Chicago~! Now its back to feeling more like what winter used to be, in the times before global warming and all. Which is to say, maybe after the days when dinosaurs roamed in covered wagons, but before the introduction of the personal computer, compact disc or the cellular phone, roughly. I seem to remember it, walking to grade school in snow. I remember walking on the lakeshore when it was encased in creaking hills of ice, one day with my dad, waaaay back in my childhood.

Anyway. Flash forward to 2006 and we're not exactly wearing spacesuits and eating our meals in pill form, but I have ridden my bicycle every month of this wintertime. Or, someone else's bicycle, or, as happened one cold night, rode someone else's bicycle with them. Did you happen to see it? A beast with 2 heads, 4 legs and 2 wheels, making its way west on North! Two mouths laughing, their visible breath hanging in the cold night air! 2 sets of eyes peering into the darkness, scanning for potholes and car doors! The 2 back legs pedaled while the 2 front ones dangled out in the air, like the little arms of the tyrannasaurus. How did they make it over the speed humps? Oh, they'll never tell!! (was that lewd? Sorry.) It was an excellent way to keep one back and one front cozy, pressed together snugly and generating more warmth by the moment. Try it and see!

Here is the other news round-up~

*Last night The Big Dawg, Darlene, and Picasso and I saw Audrey reading at Quimby's. Fun and edifying! As always.

*Marcel has got a new game going where he plays a kind of solitaire with biscuits that he hides in his sleeping bag to eat later. Pictures to come, I hope.

*I am knitting the second of the Skull Socks of Fury, and am on the last row of the skull chart. Intarsia is getting more familiar and less torturous, (thanks Elizabeth the recent Birthday Girl, for intarsia info!) and giving me all kinds of ideas. We'll see.

Posted by pippypippy at February 10, 2006 11:34 AM

Comments

A beast with two heads four legs and tow wheels. It sound kind of apocalyptic. Especially on North Avenue. djm

Posted by: djm at February 10, 2006 01:26 PM

I am glad to hear that you remember the before times, when dinosaurs roamed the earth in covered waggons!

Yours truly!!

Posted by: db at February 10, 2006 06:10 PM