This was me at the rally yesterday. We librarians* stand with the teachers whose vocation was disparaged and attacked and made to seem the enemy by the incumbent.
* Even former part-time librarians currently employed as tax accountants.
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From Amanda Palmer's latest email update on her fantastically successful Kickstarter-funded album:
... to review the people-who've called list:
rolling stone called, the new york times called, time magazine called, the new yorker called, the wall street journal called, billboard called, and the economist called.
they want their media back.
i might give it to them to borrow, but first i want a picture of 24,883** people holding my naked body aloft on the cover of LIFE.
then we'll talk.
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What I did on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend:
Yes, that's right, I hung out with my new BFF, Brenda Dayne. She is on a teaching / knitting / family visit / whatever tour of North America and taught several classes at The Yarnery*** in St. Paul. I took her class on how to design and construct a top-down raglan ("Basic Top-Down Daglan (With a Difference)").
And before you ask, no, I did not knit that gray alpaca lace shawl myself. I won it and blogged about it here (scroll down).
*** If you follow the link to The Yarnery, do watch the slide show of drool-worthy yarns on their front page.
Heh, thank you for that Amanda Palmer quote.
And that is a great picture!
Yay librarians!
Posted by: Big Alice | 03 June 2012 at 12:55 PM
Love your t-shirt!
Posted by: Lisa | 03 June 2012 at 02:18 PM
Oh, how fun for YOUUUUU!
Posted by: Vicki | 03 June 2012 at 02:27 PM
Good luck with the voting. Hoping you shook the next Governor's hand at that rally. I'm not from your state, but I'll be waiting to see what happens.
What a fun way to spend part of the Memorial day weekend.
Posted by: Melissa | 03 June 2012 at 03:29 PM
Looking good!
Posted by: Heather | 03 June 2012 at 04:24 PM
When I see your smiling face and read your funny comments on my blog, I know you are my friend. Someday I will be in Wisconsin. Then there'll be troubley fun.
Posted by: Sophanne | 03 June 2012 at 08:18 PM
What a fabulously fun photo! Wish I could join you. . .
Posted by: Kym | 03 June 2012 at 08:59 PM
Love your t-shirt and the shawl!!
Posted by: Susan R. | 04 June 2012 at 07:19 AM
Thanks for the Amanda Palmer quote - I'm still laughing!
Glad you got to take the class - you look radiant in your photo.
Posted by: gayle | 04 June 2012 at 10:24 AM
Good luck tomorrow...and sorry I forgot about the class at The Yarnery ~sigh~ I was at Franconia that day anyway...so many fun things to do, so little time...
Hooray for uppity libratians!
Posted by: Soxanne | 04 June 2012 at 10:15 PM
Librarians who can't type!
Posted by: Soxanne | 04 June 2012 at 10:17 PM
Amanda Palmer rocks :)
Posted by: bullwinkle | 19 June 2012 at 04:05 AM