SARAH CALLS FORTH OUR CREATIVITY & IRE

Leslie a/k/a Tikkun Knits was first revealed to me via Ravelry, the over-the-top knitting/crochet/fiber arts beta site (soomething like Elderexercise) that requires membership to participate.  At last count there were 100,000 members.  It's free, you just wait till your number is called, then join.  Though I have a few reservations about it, these were quickly overcome when three friends from  the KnitaCondomAmulet project told me it would be a good place for expanding interest in safe sex.

Lisa Daehlin tirelessly helped me navigate the mysteries last Fall.  So how do you find like-minded knitters among that gigantic group?  An email arrived from a woman who'd seen this blog and had an idea to start a Condom Amulet  interest group on Ravelry.  She did a fine job.  Then she disappeared.  Lisa and I have soldiered on minding the store.  There are now 85 members who have brought enthusiasm and many new ideas for amulet styles and ways to get them into the public space.

Tikkun Knits joined us, presented  finely-made Condom Amulets.  We are but one of her world-saving interests for which she knits or crochets remarkable things.  What you see here is her latest, PIGS IN LIPSTICK-- in its amulet permutation.  Of course you want to crochet it yourself.  Leslie did this as a fund-raiser for Knitters for Obama, another Ravelry group--with 400+ members.

Then there's Holly Cara Price, a blogger I met at the voter registration storefront for  Three Parks Dems on the upper west side.  She too has applied humor to this scary woman at her newly redesigned site, Snoop du Jour, with the very  appropriate title, "Baked Alaska."

Of course, these elegantly fun-poking ideas do not mask our fears.  You need to read CLOTHES LINE  where two Minnesota women blog.  First there's  information not seen elsewhere about a successful "Minnesota Women Reject Palin" rally followed by an on-the-scene report of the huge turnout in Anchorage for this week's "Alaska Women Reject Palin" rally.  Is it happening where you live?

Finally, Maureen Dowd, not often my favorite New York Times columnist, in "Barbies for War!" poked around Alaska,  found Sarah Palin's high school principal, R.D. Levno, who said:

She's a child, inexperienced and simplistic...It's taking us back to junior high school.  She's one of the popular girls, but one of the mean girls.  She is seductive, but she is invented.

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Upper West Side, Broadway and 105th Street (in front of Liberty House), 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Holly, Ron Bloom, and I will be there. and work in the campaign?

"Polar Bears for Obama" is the title of this second-grader's picture. Met her and her parents at Three Parks Dems' Campaign storefront earlier this week.  She added her  creative touch as  Mom and Dad registered new voters, helped with changes of address--English and Spanish.

Getting out the vote needs you-- turn that ire into creativity!  

 

 

Comments

[janinsanfran]

Sorry to miss the cookies -- gotta talk to my 40 voters with the Million Doors for Peace petition tomorrow.

We're all doing stuff -- it's the only remedy I know for the tension of the campaign.

[Lydia]

My, you are busy. There's so much to love in this post. That lipsticked piggy is FAB! I wish the statement made by Palin's former HS principal would sweep the Internet. I'm going to try to use it in a post, too.
The cookies must have been a huge hit. I need to make a batch and pass out to the neighbor kids - "from Obama".

[H.A. Page]

The International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe has a collection of amulets on display from the collection of Alexander Girard. The museum educator asked the group of docents gathered for training on the amulets what sorts of things might be considered amulets. Condoms and your condom amulets.

[Leslie]

Naomi,
Would you send your cookie recipe asap? I'd like to bring along a few batches for the campaign volunteers my way.
Thanks.
Leslie

[Kay Dennison]

Love the pig and the cookies!!!!!! Wayyyyyyyy cooooooool!